Tanzania approves 15 candidates for presidential election

Addis Ababa, August 27, 2020 (FBC) – Tanzanian President John Magufuli will face 14 challengers in elections scheduled for this October, the elections board announced.

His main challengers are likely to be Tundu Lissu, who returned to Tanzania last month after spending nearly three years in Belgium for treatment after he was shot during an assassination attempt, and ex-foreign minister Bernard Membe, who was expelled from the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi party in February.

The presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 28, according to Al Jazeera.