NAIROBI: Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as president on Monday, with an Internet blackout still in place after election protests in which the opposition says hundreds were killed by security forces. The electoral commission said Hassan won 98 percent of the vote. She was sworn into office despite the main opposition party, Chadema, which was barred from running, rejecting the results.

Demonstrators took to streets after president’s main challengers were excluded from ballot

NAIROBI: Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the…