Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and 15 other members were rounded up in a crackdown denounced as a throwback to the oppressive rule of the country’s late leader. Tanzania Chadema party chairman ...

Chadema will persevere because the party has MPs with the capacity and confidence," declared the Chadema chairman, Mr Freeman Mbowe. He is also leader of the opposition camp in the august House.

Freeman Mbowe was detained, along with two other Chadema leaders, ... Police briefly detained Mr Lissu after arresting him outside Umoja House, where foreign embassies are located.

One of Tanzania's most prominent opposition figures has been arrested. Freeman Mbowe, the Chadema party chairman, and other opposition leaders have been detained in south-western Tanzania ...

Reuters. Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA's chairman Freeman Mbowe is detained by Tanzania police during the protests to condemn a series of kidnappings and murders within the Magomeni ...

Tanzanian opposition leaders released on bail — Chadema 09/23/2024 September 23, 2024. Freeman Mbowe and Tundu Lissu were arrested ahead of a planned protest following the abduction and murder ...

Freeman Mbowe, chairman of the Party for Democracy and Progress, leaves court on Feb. 18. (Ericky Boniphace/AFP/Getty Images) By Rael Ombuor.

Among them are former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu, party chairman Freeman Mbowe, party youth wing leader John Pambalu, and several journalists.

The ruling party sees Mbowe as the force behind Chadema’s success as an organised opposition party. There have been state-sponsored calls against him being a party chairman for 19 years.

A Tanzanian court on Friday ordered the release of opposition leader Freeman Mbowe and three other defendants after the prosecution dropped terrorism charges against them. "Because the (prosecution) ...

Freeman Mbowe was detained, along with two other Chadema leaders, ... Police briefly detained Mr Lissu after arresting him outside Umoja House, where foreign embassies are located.

Police in Tanzania have arrested the chairman of the main opposition party in the wake of a disputed election. Freeman Mbowe was detained, along with two other Chadema leaders, for planning ...