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| Opposition candidate, former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa |
Tanzania's ruling party
looked set to win presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday despite a
challenge to its five decades in power from former Prime Minister Edward
Lowassa, who has voiced concerns the poll may not be free or fair. Late on Sunday Chadema
party, part of the opposition coalition led by Lowassa, said police raided its
vote-tallying centre in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam and
arrested opposition officials.
Any
dispute in the outcome of the election - billed as the tightest race in
Tanzania's post-independence history - could raise tensions in a nation which
has been relatively stable since British rule ended in 1961.
