{"id":88240,"date":"2026-04-25T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88240"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:35:21","slug":"more-than-500-people-killed-in-tanzania-election-violence-inquiry-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/25\/more-than-500-people-killed-in-tanzania-election-violence-inquiry-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 people killed in Tanzania election violence, inquiry finds"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/87b9\/live\/dec4b4b0-3efc-11f1-af30-35b7ea1ea972.jpg\" alt=\"Protest a day after Tanzania's general election at the Namanga One-Post Border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A total of 518 people died in Tanzania from &#8220;unnatural causes&#8221;, including 197 who were shot dead, in the widespread protests that followed last year&#8217;s general election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgld775knzyo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>A total of 518 people died in Tanzania from &#8220;unnatural causes&#8221;, including 197 who were shot dead, in the widespread protests that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88240","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\/2020\/08\/tanzania.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240","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=88240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88241,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240\/revisions\/88241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}