Samia declared winner in Tanzania election with 98pc amid protests
A street vendor walks past an electoral campaign poster of Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM) ahead of the general elections in Ilala district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, October 28, 2025.
Tanzania's electoral commission declared on Saturday that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had won, with nearly 98 percent of the votes, an election that set off violent protests across the country this week.
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.
