FILE PHOTO: Tanzania's President John Magufuli addresses his supporters during his Presidential campaign rally at the Tanganyika Parkers Grounds in Kawe in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania October 14, 2020. Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's president John Magufuli hopes to win another five-year term when the East African nation holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday, amid criticism from rights groups that the government is stifling political dissent.
Magufuli's main challengers include Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in 2017, and former foreign minister Bernard Membe. The attack on Lissu, who returned from three years in exile in July, has never been solved.
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