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Tanzania arrests top opposition figure Lissu, other leaders: party

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Tanzania's leading opposition Chadema party figure Tundu Lissu. [AFP]

Tanzanian police have arrested leading opposition Chadema party figure Tundu Lissu and other leaders, a Chadema official said.

They were arrested in the southwestern city of Mbeya, where the party was due to hold a rally on Monday to mark International Youth Day, Chadema's director of communications and foreign affairs John Mrema posted on X late Sunday.

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