Overview
- NetBlocks confirmed a nationwide connectivity disruption as videos showed clashes in several neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam and protests in Arusha.
- The electoral commission disqualified CHADEMA and barred ACT‑Wazalendo’s candidate after an attorney general objection, leaving only minor-party challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
- Police set a 6 p.m. local curfew in Dar es Salaam after violence near polling sites, and the U.S. embassy advised personnel to shelter in place.
- Hassan is widely expected to prevail, with polls closed at 4 p.m. and official results due within three days for the presidential, parliamentary and Zanzibar votes.
- UN experts and rights groups report hundreds of enforced disappearances since 2019 and accuse authorities of suppressing dissent, while the government denies abuses and cites an ordered probe; CHADEMA leader Tundu Lissu remains on trial for treason, which he denies.