{"id":17250,"date":"2020-08-14T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17250"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:32:45","slug":"tanzania-opposition-party-office-torched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/14\/tanzania-opposition-party-office-torched\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Opposition Party Office Torched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s opposition Chadema party office in the north-eastern town of Arusha has been &#8220;firebombed&#8221;, according to its leader Tundu Lissu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Lissu said the office was destroyed on the eve of his visit to the town on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has termed the act as &#8220;terror and intimidation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The politician said his planned visit would still go on despite the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweeted photos of the destroyed party office:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Northern Zone party HQ in Arusha has been firebombed and destroyed on the eve of my arrival in Arusha. Today&#39;s timetable remains unchanged. No amount of terror and intimidation will stop this Tsunami for change in Tanzania. Arusha here we come \u270c? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SasaBasi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SasaBasi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TunduLissu2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TunduLissu2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uGYbJJ0ikd\">pic.twitter.com\/uGYbJJ0ikd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tundu Antiphas Lissu (@TunduALissu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TunduALissu\/status\/1294150382445301760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Lissu returned to Tanzania last month after surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 that saw him seek treatment in Kenya and Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Lissu has been nominated by his party to run for the presidency in October&#8217;s general elections, but has said he lacks confidence in the electoral commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s opposition Chadema party office in the north-eastern town of Arusha has been &#8220;firebombed&#8221;, according to its leader Tundu Lissu. Mr Lissu said the office was destroyed on the eve of his visit to the town on Friday. He has termed the act as &#8220;terror and intimidation&#8221;. The politician said his planned visit would still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1181,1180,126,897],"class_list":["post-17250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-arusha","tag-chadema","tag-tanzania","tag-tundu-lissu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17252,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions\/17252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}