{"id":38382,"date":"2026-06-30T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38382"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:03:23","slug":"tanzania-suspends-political-rallies-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-suspends-political-rallies-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania suspends political rallies nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tanzania&#8217;s President Samia Suluhu Hassan&#8217;s government has suspended all nationwide political rallies indefinitely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The directive, announced by Home Affairs Minister Patrobas Katambi, orders police to stop issuing permits for public political gatherings until further notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This is ahead of the planned July 7 youth protest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Civil society organisations and the opposition political parties have criticised the decision calling it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15488,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38382","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38383,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38382\/revisions\/38383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}