Tanzania election body suspends opposition campaign
Tundu Lissu, the presidential candidate of Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party, speaks to the media at his home in Dar es Salaam on September 9, 2020.
Lissu, who recently returned from three years in Belgium recovering from a 2017 assassination attempt in which he was shot 16 times, is the main challenger to President John Magufuli and has been drawing massive crowds to his rallies.
The election body said in a statement that its ethics committee had found Lissu had made seditious statements and spread lies while campaigning, after he accused Magufuli of planning to rig the election.
Tanzania's polls commission on Friday announced it was suspending the campaign of opposition leader Tundu Lissu for seven days over "seditious language", as the race heats up ahead of general elections this month.
Lissu, who recently returned from three years in Belgium recovering from a 2017 assassination attempt in which he was shot 16 times, is the main challenger to President John Magufuli and has been drawing massive crowds to his rallies.
