Election day: Tanzania restricts internet as chaos erupts
Casted votes inside ballot boxes from The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), during the general election at a polling station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, October 29, 2025.
Internet users in Tanzania have reported massive disruptions as voters went to polling stations to elect a new president, legislators and local civic leaders.
Some 37.6 million voters were expected to cast their ballots on Wednesday, although certain categories were permitted to vote on Tuesday in the autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, in a process that could confirm President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s first ever presidential election. She had inherited the seat from John Pombe Magufuli, who died in March 2021.
