Tanzania
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- April 25, 1977, amended in October 1984
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law; partial revision of legislative acts by the judiciary
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Bunge)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Permanent Investigation Commission; Court of Appeal and High Court, district courts, primary courts
RELIGIONS
30% Catholics, 35% Muslims, 35% indigenous beliefs (Zanzibar, over 99% Muslims)
From the country
DECEMBER 8, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Updates on the Tundu Lissu case
Tanzania, an important East African country with over 70 million inhabitants
NOVEMBER 27, 2025GambiaDEATH PENALTYAFRICA - 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
No record shows that the question of Tundu Lissu in Tanzania was raised
- NOVEMBER 13, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
TANZANIA - Update on the case of Tundu Lissu
Political leader on death row in Tanzania
- NOVEMBER 2, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
TANZANIA - Update on the case of Tundu Lissu, a political leader who is on death row in Tanzania. Plus, a glimpse of Africa
Italian schoolchildren are stranded in Tanzania due to post-election unrest
- OCTOBER 28, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
TANZANIA - The Tundu Lissu case and the elections on 29 October
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the situation of Tundu Lissu
Lissu's vicissitudes brought to the Venice Film Festival
- AUGUST 28, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Free Tundu Lissu
The leader of Chadema is on death row: who will save the man who dreams of a different Tanzania?
- JULY 30, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Update on the Tundu Lissu affair
- JULY 15, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
TANZANIA - Update on the Tundu Lissu case
Opposition leader arrested on vague charges
JUNE 19, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTanzania - Lissu, nonviolent opposition leader, faces death sentence
On summary charges of ‘high treason”
MARCH 23, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: MAN TO BE HANGED FOR MURDERING HIS GIRLFRIEND
The High Court of Tanzania in Moshi on March 10, 2025 sentenced 32-year-old Erasto Mollel to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Josephine Mngara, 30.
MARCH 5, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN INVOLVED IN MOB KILLINGS
The Court of Appeal of Tanzania on February 25, 2025 upheld the death sentence of Rhobi Chacha, a resident of the Mara region, for his role in the murder of two people accused of theft.