Mbowe’s terrorism charges turn focus on similar neglected cases

Freeman Mbowe

Freeman Mbowe, chairman of the main opposition party in Tanzania. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

What you need to know:

  • Variably, acts of terrorism have been described as any action that seeks to employ violence. 
  • Speculation is bound to grow as the Mbowe case comes to trial, and there is no doubt the greatest legal minds in the country. 
  • The Magufuli government, and the one under his successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has never shown interest in this extreme act of terror.