Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan vowed on Monday to move on from deadly protests set off by last week's disputed election as she was sworn into office for her first elected term. Opponents say the vote was rigged and that hundreds died,

Protests are spreading in Tanzania as electoral authorities count the votes in a disputed presidential election that rights groups and opposition figures say was clouded by a climate of fear

DODOMA (Reuters) -Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn into office on Monday for her first elected term after winning a landslide victory in an election that excluded major opponents and set off deadly protests across the country.

The authorities in Tanzania responded to widespread protests following the October 29 elections with lethal force and other abuses.

The African nation of Tanzania has reconnected to the internet after a five day outage. As noted by outage-watcher NetBlocks and Cloudflare’s Radar service, traffic to and from Tanzania dropped to near-zero early on October 29th – the date of national elections for a new president.

While a spokesperson from the opposition Chadema party told news agency AFP that "around 700" people had been killed in clashes with security forces, a diplomatic source in Tanzania told the BBC there was credible evidence that at least 500 people had died.

Tanzania, long revered across Africa as the Island of Peace and a sanctuary for refugees, has for the first time since the return of multiparty politics in the early 1990s experienced

The political unrest in Tanzania could potentially disrupt key trade routes and the landlocked economies in southern Africa that rely heavily on the East African country's ports for essential imports.