Violence Poses Threat to Tanzania’s ‘Democratic Values,’ EU Says
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The European Union said a wave of violence in Tanzania that included the death of a student and the attempted murder of a lawmaker pose a threat to democratic values in East Africa’s second-largest economy.
“We are worried by the rising number of reports of violence in the last months,” the EU said Friday in a statement backed by the Canadian, Norwegian and Swiss ambassadors. Such upheaval has occurred in a country “widely respected in the world for its stability, peacefulness and freedoms,” it said.