Business Insider Wed, Apr 25 12:00 AM CDT
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania deployed heavily armed police officers across major towns and cities on Wednesday in a bid to block anti-government protests called by a U.S.-based Tanzanian social media activist. The banned demonstrations - timed to take place on Thursday's anniversary of the union between mainland Tanzania and the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar - have been organized by self-exiled activist Mange Kimambi. "Those who plan to demonstrate tomorrow will seriously suffer ... they will be beaten like stray dogs," Gilles Muroto, police chief in Tanzania's administrative capital Dodoma told journalists on Wednesday. In the northern town of Arusha, an opposition stronghold, police ...
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