Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections - Vol. 7 of 12

By Rutashubanyuma Nestory

Tanzania's 2025 Pre-Election Crisis: Enforced Disappearances, Judicial Deference, Digital Repression, and the Architecture of Fear

This book provides a comprehensive, real-time analysis of Tanzania's political environment during the lead-up to the October 29, 2025 general election. Drawing on court filings, official statements, human rights reports, media coverage, and family testimonies, it examines the systematic contraction of democratic space under conditions of heightened state control.

At the centre of the analysis is the alleged abduction of former Ambassador Humphrey Polepole on October 6, 2025, including subsequent habeas corpus proceedings dismissed for "insufficient evidence." The case is used to explore broader structural issues: evidentiary burdens in disappearance litigation, institutional opacity, and judicial reluctance to infer state responsibility in the absence of direct proof.

The book further documents the disqualification of the main opposition party CHADEMA, treason charges against its leadership, the use of contempt proceedings to restrict political activity, and widespread digital restrictions affecting platforms such as X, Clubhouse, Telegram, and Jamii Forums.

It also analyses expanded cybercrime enforcement, surveillance of religious leaders under political criteria, coercive bail conditions in online speech cases, and pre-election economic announcements-most notably the declaration of 41,500 public service jobs-interpreted as electoral signalling rather than structural reform.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H44K3YGL
• ISBN13: 9798235823068
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"