Tanzania’s Chadema party says leader Freeman Mbowe arrested

Freeman Mbowe and 10 other Chadema members were rounded up Mwanza ahead of planned conference, party says.

Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has said its leader and other members were arrested before a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms. Freeman Mbowe and 10 Chadema members were rounded up overnight in the northwestern port city of Mwanza, the party said on Twitter early on Wednesday. “We condemn the repression of the rights of Tanzanians with the strongest force. These are signs that the dictatorship that existed during the rule of President John Magufuli continues,” it charged.