
Tanzania opposition leader arrested
Freeman Mbowe and other members of Chadema were arrested for unauthorised assembly.
Tanzania opposition leader Freeman Mbowe and other members of Chadema were arrested on Tuesday night for holding an unauthorised assembly; A report from West Darfur, where despite a peace truce, Sudanese troops have failed to protect civilians; Spy software widely used to target journalists and activists is found on the phone of the daughter of Rwanda's government critic Paul Rusesabagina. And a reading from the shortlist of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing: 'A separation', by Ugandan writer Iryn Tushabe.
(Photo: Chadema's national Chairman, Freeman Mbowe. Credit: ERICKY BONIPHACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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