A prominent government critic in Tanzania, Humphrey Polepole (55), has vanished without trace after violently been abducted from his home in Dar es Salaam on the night of October 6, 2025. That was reported by some African media on October 7, 2025.

Tanzania's opposition presidential nominee in the forthcoming General Elections 2025, whose appeal to a high court in Dar es Salaam, against a decision by the country's electoral body to bar him from the presidential election of the two-tier general elections, was upheld by the court on September 11, 2025, has been disqualified one more time. That was reported by some African media on September 16, 2025.

Tanzania's second largest opposition party ACT-Wazalendo's presidential nominee Luhaga Mpina has made a triumphant return to the ongoing presidential race of the country's forthcoming General Elections 2025, after the High Court there upheld his appeal against the country's electoral body's decision to bar him from the race. That was reported by some African media on September 14, 2025.

Tanzania has barred the presidential nominee for the second largest opposition party Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo), namely Luhaga Mpina, from running in the presidential election of the country's 2025 General Elections that are scheduled for October 29, 2025. That was reported by some media on August 27, 2025.

A male Caucasian South African farmer, namely Zachariah Johannes Olivier (60), accused of gunning down 2 African South African women and feeding their bodies to his pigs, appeared in a court in Polokwane City in Limpopo Province on August 4, 2025, to face murder trial. Also on trial for the barbaric murders are two of his workers who are accused of assisting him. That was reported by some South African media.

The highly controversial arrest and incarceration of Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been propelled to the global legal arena by his international legal team. That was reported by some media on June 1, 2025.

Prominent Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (37) has narrated that she was severely battered and raped by security forces in Tanzania, when she was in incarceration there some days ago. That was reported by some media on May 25, 2025.

The International Democratic Union (IDU), International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and European Parliament (EP) have lambasted the government of Tanzania for arresting the country's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu during a political rally by his party CHADEMA in the town of Mbinga in Southern Tanzania, and charging him with treason. That was reported recently by various media.

Pope Francis is dead. According to an announcement by the Vatican, he died at his residence in the Vatican City in the morning of April 21, 2025, on Easter Monday. His Holiness was 88.

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been arrested and charged with treason, reported some African media.