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Zanzibar opposition campaign manager says he was threatened by armed men

Zanzibar opposition campaign manager says he was threatened by armed men

AN opposition party campaign manager in semi-autonomous Zanzibar has revealed that he had been seized and threatened by armed men, while a parliamentary candidate was still missing before Tanzanian elections next week. Earlier on Sunday the ACT-Wazalendo party said Nassor Mazrui, its Zanzibar campaign manager and the party's deputy secretary general for the archipelago, and Abdalla Ali Abdalla, the party candidate for the House of Representative elections, had been abducted on Saturday in separate incidents. Mazrui re-emerged at the party's political rally in Zanzibar later on Sunday, saying his assailants fired a shot in the air before forcing him out…
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