{"id":4229,"date":"2024-09-16T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2024-09-16T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:03:45","slug":"tanzanian-president-condemns-brutal-murder-of-opposition-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian President Condemns Brutal Murder of Opposition Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>International Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Samia Suluhu Hassan has strongly denounced the killing of Mohamed Ali Kibao, a senior member of the opposition party Chadema, who was kidnapped, beaten, and doused with acid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have ordered the investigation agencies to bring me detailed information about this terrible incident and others like this as soon as possible,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our country is a democracy, and every citizen has the right to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kibao, 69, was forced off a bus by suspected security agents and found dead with severe injuries and acid burns. Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe described the incident as &#8220;brutal acts&#8221; and called for an independent investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Embassy in Tanzania also condemned the killing, urging an &#8220;independent, transparent, and prompt investigation.&#8221; Mbowe warned that &#8220;the lives of Chadema leaders are currently at risk&#8221; and demanded action from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The murder has sparked widespread condemnation, with many fearing a return to repressive rule. Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the increase in arrests of opposition activists ahead of the 2025 presidential elections. &#8220;Murder and disappearances\u2026should have no place in a democracy,&#8221; the US Embassy stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Correspondent President Samia Suluhu Hassan has strongly denounced the killing of Mohamed Ali Kibao, a senior member of the opposition party Chadema, who was kidnapped, beaten, and doused with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}