A police officer stops a man accused by electoral officials of attempting to taint the voting process at a polling station in Stone Town, Tanzania, during the coubtry's presidential elections. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images
About 700 people have been killed during three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party has said.
Protests erupted on election day on Wednesday over what demonstrators said was the stifling of the opposition after the exclusion of key candidates from the presidential ballot.
John Kitoka, a spokesperson for the Chadema opposition party, told Agence France-Presse (AF
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