Young people have taken to the streets to protest restricted election choices and harassment of opposition leaders.Hundreds of demonstrators have squared off with police in Tanzania’s commercial capital for a third day of protests, following a disputed and chaotic election, to demand the national electoral body stop announcing electoral results.The latest developments on Friday came as the government has deployed the military onto the streets and enforced an internet shutdown. On Thursday, in Dar-es-Salaam, a city of more than seven million people, protesters who defied a curfew in the Mbagala, Gongo la Mboto and Kiluvya neighbourhoods were met with tear gas and the sounds of gunfire.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listChaos erupted on Wednesday afternoon as young people took to the streets to protest the restricted election choices and harassment of opposition leaders. Several vehicles, a petrol station, and police stations were set ablaze by protesters.Amnesty International has reported the deaths of at least two people this week.State television was broadcasting the mainland results of Wednesday’s vote in which the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, which has governed Tanzania since independence in 1961, was seeking to extend its time in power.Wednesday’s election saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s two biggest challengers excluded from the race, infuriating citizens and rights groups that have also decried an intensifying crackdown against opposition members, activists and journalists. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan casts her vote during the general elections at Chamwino polling station in Dodoma, Tanzania, Wednesday, October 29, 2 …
