Tanzania readies for polls after years of ‘hell’ for opposition

Tundu Lissu, shot 16 times in an assassination attempt, returned to Tanzania to run for president — but he did not know what to expect after the “hell” experienced by the opposition under President John Magufuli. Political rallies had been banned for years, freedom of speech suffocated, opposition leaders killed, abducted and arrested. Lissu was worried for his own safety. But the 52-year-old has been amazed by the reaction as he crisscrosses…