Zanzibar's re-elected president was expected to be sworn in on Wednesday as the opposition planned protests over alleged fraud at a violence-plagued election in the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago. With general foreign endorsement of Sunday's turbulent poll, the Civic United Front (CUF) opposition faces an uphill battle to annul the results, analysts said. "They have been isolated by the fact that the international community said it was relatively free and fair," Tanzanian professor Ted Maliyamkono told Reuters.
In three days of clashes between security forces and opposition supporters since Sunday's turbulent poll, at least one person has died, aid groups and police said, but others put the toll higher. Seif Shariff Hamad of the main opposition Civic United Front said five supporters died on the Zanzibar archipelago's second island, Pemba, on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. A member of the government security force said four of his colleagues were killed on Pemba. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Scores of others have been injured and arrested. |