{"id":19757,"date":"2020-11-11T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2020-11-11T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:58:43","slug":"tundu-lissu-flees-tanzania-after-threats-to-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/tundu-lissu-flees-tanzania-after-threats-to-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tundu Lissu flees Tanzania after &#8216;threats to his life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s main opposition presidential candidate in last month&#8217;s disputed general election has left the country for Belgium, where until recently he had been receiving medical treatment after a 2017 assassination attempt against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tundu Lissu sought refuge at the German ambassador\u2019s residence in Dar es Salaam last week citing threats to his life, a BBC correspondent in Tanzania reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chadema party leader and a number of his colleagues had been arrested since the 28 October polls, as had members of another opposition party ACT Wazalendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police accused them of planning unlawful protests and sedition. Some in Chadema were accused of planning to blow up petrol stations and markets in Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opposition has demanded a re-run of the poll, in which the UK and the United States said there had been systematic interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Tanzania&#8217;s National Electoral Commission says there was no fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s main opposition presidential candidate in last month&#8217;s disputed general election has left the country for Belgium, where until recently he had been receiving medical treatment after a 2017 assassination attempt against him. Tundu Lissu sought refuge at the German ambassador\u2019s residence in Dar es Salaam last week citing threats to his life, a BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":19758,"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":[145,126,897],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-magufuli","tag-tanzania","tag-tundu-lissu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","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=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19759,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}