2025 Tanzanian election protests Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election...

Tanzania's president has announced an inquiry into killings during last month's election protests. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday that the commission will investigate the unrest and support reconciliation efforts.

Tanzania's president has announced an inquiry into killings during last month's election protests.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday that the commission will investigate the unrest and support reconciliation efforts.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan appears in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus on April 15, 2022, in Washington.

DODOMA, Tanzania () — Tanzania’s president announced on Friday that her administration has formed an inquiry commission to probe killings that occurred during election protests last month, and said she had ordered the release of some of the arrested youths.

During her first parliamentary address since the election, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday that the commission would look into issues that led to the unrest and help inform the reconciliation and peace efforts the government was planning to undertake.

Human rights chief, Volker Türk, had called for a probe into the killings and the alleged concealing of evidence.

Young people in Tanzania began demonstrating on election day on Oct.

29 to protest the exclusion of presidential candidates from the two main opposition parties.

President Hassan was declared the winner with more than 97% of the total votes.

Hundreds of people were arrested during three days of protests, and some face treason charges.

President Hassan said that “as a mother,” she had forgiven those who may have joined the protests out of peer pressure.

“For those who were just following the wave, let them be counselled and released,” she said.

President Hassan acknowledged the opposition party Chadema’s demands that, for any meaningful dialogue and reconciliation to happen, constitutional reforms were key, and she said that her administration would embark on a constitutional reform process within its first 100 days.

The political importance lies in whether the issue moves from public comment into formal action, party response, court record, election authority notice or administrative decision.

For public institutions and political groups, the next test is whether the issue remains a public argument or turns into a formal response, legal proceeding, administrative instruction or election-related communication.