Cortado el acceso a internet durante las elecciones generales en Tanzania – Chicago Tribune
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NAIROBI, Kenia (AP) — Internet access is being disrupted by children in Tanzania today as the country celebrates elections marked by concerns from human rights groups and the detention of opposition members.
Netblocks, an activist group that works for Internet access, confirmed the online service and reported in Just before confirming the route, users in the African country note that navigation is slowed down.
The president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, who is seeking re-election for a second term, belongs to Governor Chama Cha Mapinduzi, who has held power since independence in 1961.
In three centers visited by the Associated Press periodicals, they had wires to deposit the boletas. Voting officially begins at the end of the first hour and is expected to end on the fourth evening, when the story begins. We hope that the provisional results will be announced within 24 hours, but the electoral commission will meet every day to announce the final results.
The leader of the main opposition party CHADEMA, Tundu Lissu, is in prison and driven by workloads to carry out electoral reforms. The candidate of the second party, the strongest opponent, is barred from postulating.
Amnesty International said the environment during the elections was characterized by the environment and confirmed that it was verifying cases of forced disappearance, arbitrary arrest and extrajudicial execution before the electoral city. According to the human rights group, abusive presuntos by the security forces undermine the legitimacy of the comicios.
Hassan aspires to fully fulfill his first legislature in the field of business, after finalizing the mandate of his predecessor, John Pombe Magufuli, who died in repentance in 2021. The bolet includes 16 candidates from the smaller opposition parties.
Tanzania has more than 37 million registered voters, or 26% of those in 2020, but analysts say the increase has not happened because it reflects increased turnout, due to apathy ahead of the perception that Hassan might oppose.
CHADEMA called protests on election day. Police dispersed several protesters who gathered in the Kimara Kibo area of the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
Hassan said he would not allow protests.
An opposition party in the Zanzíbar archipelago, ACT Wazalendo, said the authorities’ early voting — for electoral and security officials — is marked by irregularities such as people being passed by security officials and the banning of party representatives presented.
The electoral commission confirmed that it had to fulfill the law to celebrate the early vote of the martes.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
