Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu to return from exile

Lissu, an outspoken critic of deceased authoritarian Magufuli and Tanzania’s powerful ruling party, was shot while seated in his car in 2017 and spent the next few years recovering in Belgium.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu said Friday he would shortly return home from exile to “write a new chapter” following the president’s lifting of a ban on political assembly.

Lissu, who was shot 16 times in an assassination attempt in 2017 and has spent most of the years since in Belgium, said he would arrive in Tanzania on January 25.

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