Tanzania’s main opposition party on Tuesday said its chairman had been hospitalised after being beaten up in a “politically-motivated” attack as police said they would investigate the assault. Freeman Mbowe was ambushed by unknown assailants as he returned home late Monday in the capital Dodoma, and rushed to hospital with injuries, his Chadema party said in a statement. A high-profile critic of President John Magufuli, Mbowe has repeatedly accused the government of covering up the extent of Tanzania’s coronavirus outbreak and failing to take the pandemic seriously.
