Tanzanian election

Hassan gets almost all the votes as rivals sit out

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won over 97 percent of the vote, official election results show, according to the AP. Perhaps not so surprising considering that her main competitor risks the death penalty in prison and the only other opponent was stopped due to technicalities.

Hassan is to be sworn in later on Saturday, writes AFP. She has not yet commented on the reports of hundreds of deaths in the violent protests after Wednesday's heavily criticized election.

The information situation is very scarce. The country's news sites have not been updated since Wednesday morning and journalists cannot work freely in the country. The internet is down and a curfew is in effect.

"The result is a slap in the face of the Tanzanian people"

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's "landfall victory" in Tanzania's election is a mockery of democracy. This is what John Kitoka, a spokesman for the opposition Chadema party, told AFP.

“It’s a slap in the face to the people and many are very angry,” he says.

Hassan received 98 percent of the vote in an election that all credible observers have called rigged. Her main opponents have either been jailed or banned from running, and hundreds of people were killed in anti-government protests on election day.