Dar es Salaam, April 14, 2025 (AFP) - Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: the pugnacious survivor facing treason charges

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2025-04-14

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has survived an assassination attempt that left him riddled with bullets, multiple arrests, and long years in exile -- all in pursuit of democracy in the east African nation. But the 57-year-old lawyer may be facing his toughest challenge yet after he was charged with treason, a capital crime, just six months out from national elections. "The treason case is a path to liberation," a typically defiant Lissu......

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