A disputed election and charges the ruling party is censoring the news have had a chilling effect on what should be a time for celebration in the southern African nation of Tanzania. Tuesday is the 52nd Union Day - the anniversary of the day in 1964 on which Tanganyika merged with the island of Zanzibar to form Tanzania. No celebrations But reform-minded President John Magufuli has canceled this year’s Union Day celebrations in what he said was a cost-saving measure. Instead the president has recommended that the money for the celebrations be used for road construction. Freeman Mbowe, national chairman of the opposition CHADEMA party, said the state of the union is not well because tensions remain ...
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