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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanians largely ignored on Thursday a U.S.-based activist's call to stage nationwide protests against President John Magufuli's government. Nine demonstrators marched in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Thursday. They were quickly arrested. Mange Kimambi, a self-styled Tanzanian democracy activist based in the United States, tried to organize the demonstrations through social media to coincide with Thursday's anniversary of the union between mainland Tanzania and the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar. "As Tanzanians, we must defend our peace. We should not allow ourselves to be used by our enemies," Magufuli said in his Union Day speech to the nation, ...
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