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Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: jailed, shot, but refusing to back down

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Chadema presidential candidate Tundu Lissu. The political party is known for its libertarian inclination and is proposing a free market ideology. AFP PHOTO

By  AFP

Tundu Lissu has been arrested countless times and was pumped full of bullets in an assassination attempt, but instead of shying away from politics the Tanzanian lawyer decided to run for president.

At 52, Lissu walks with a slight limp after being shot 16 times in the 2017 attack he believes was politically motivated, requiring almost 20 surgeries.

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