{"id":78809,"date":"2025-08-27T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78809"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:13:33","slug":"tanzania-president-cleared-to-run-in-october-election-key-rivals-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/tanzania-president-cleared-to-run-in-october-election-key-rivals-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania president cleared to run in October election, key rivals barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LkF5F.img?w=534&amp;h=333&amp;m=6&amp;x=326&amp;y=76&amp;s=55&amp;d=55\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan arrives to address the parliament, before its dissolution ahead of the October General elections, in Dodoma, Tanzania June 27, 2025. REUTERS\/Stringer\/File Photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tanzania&#8217;s electoral commission on Wednesday barred the presidential candidate of its second biggest opposition party from contesting polls in October, leaving President Samia Suluhu Hassan to face only candidates from smaller parties.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/tanzania-president-cleared-to-run-in-october-election-key-rivals-barred\/ar-AA1Lklnb?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6eb823d0cdf745ca9bdf9b66c9eac89f&amp;ei=49\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Tanzania&#8217;s electoral commission on Wednesday barred the presidential candidate of its second biggest opposition party from contesting polls in October, leaving President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Samia-Suluhu-Hassan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78811,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809\/revisions\/78811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}