Ken Akpan The Tanzania’s electoral Commission on Saturday, November 1, 2025, declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan as the winner of the presidential election held on October 29, 2025, amid rising controversies. The commissioner declared that Hassan won with nearly 98% of the votes, an election that set off violent protests across the country this week. ALSO READ >>> Election protesters in Tanzania persist, defy Army Chief The result hands Hassan, who took power in 2021 after the death in office of her predecessor, a five-year term to govern the East African country of 68 million people. Protests erupted during Wednesday’s election for president and parliament, with some demonstrators tearing down banners of Hassan and setting fire to government buildings and police firing teargas and gunshots. Demonstrators are angry about the electoral commission’s exclusion of Hassan’s two biggest challengers from the race and what they described as widespread repression...