The wave of antigovernment protests that has seen young Gen Z protesters rise up against their countries’ old ruling classes this year has hit a roadblock in Tanzania: a government willing to use lethal force to stop them in their tracks.
Political activist David Nyakakye last month hoped to unseat an unpopular government, just as demonstrators have already done this year in Madagascar and Nepal. A presidential election was under way, and the 25-year-old and other activists took to the streets in Arusha in northern Tanzania, furious over their diminishing economic opportunities and the way two of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s main challengers were barred from the vote.
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