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Tanzania inauguration amid crackdown claims and blackout

President Samia Suluhu Hassan took the oath at an elaborate ceremony without the public present, after the electoral commission said she won 98 percent. The banned opposition party Chadema calls the vote a sham; its leader Tundu Lissu is on trial for treason and, his lawyer says, faces the death penalty. With a nationwide internet shutdown, reports are hard to verify as rights groups share grim videos and an opposition spokesman claims over 1,000 dead; authorities deny excessive force. The African Union congratulated Hassan, while Pope Leo urged dialogue. Schools and transport were halted.

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