Tanzania inquiry confirms 518 election deaths

A government-appointed commission of inquiry in Tanzania has officially acknowledged that at least 518 people were killed in violence during the country's elections last October. The report, released on Thursday, marks the first official confirmation of the deadly unrest's scale. The violence erupted around the October 2025 polls, where President Samia Suluhu Hassan claimed a landslide victory. The commission's findings provide a stark account of the human cost of the political turmoil.