Lissu in a sentence

Mr Lissu's surety Ibrahim Ahmed told the Kisutu resident magistrate Thomas Simba on Thursday November 21, 2019, when a sedition case facing Mr Lissu and three others came for mention.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu has returned to the country from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he had lived since surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 when he was shot 16 times.

Both Lissu and Mbowe's homes were surrounded by police on Sunday night, according to Mrema.

But that did not stop some Tanzanians like Agostino Lissu Mughwai from resisting.

Dar es Salaam — Chadema presidential candidate Tundu Lissu yesterday pledged that, if elected the next president of the United Republic, his administration would radically reform the country's criminal system by ensuring that all offences are bailable.

Earlier, Mr Lissu had written a statement that was widely circulated on the social media saying his campaign team was stuck at Kilimanjaro International Airport since 4am.

Following his emergency evacuation from the country, Mr. Lissu was eventually stripped of his parliamentary seat and subjected to a series of politically motivated accusations, says Mr. Amsterdam.

Lissu, 52, was shot 16 times in 2017 in what remains an unsolved case.

Lissu plans on running in Tanzania's October presidential elections.

Lissu, who has a reputation of being one of Tanzania's most outspoken politicians, says he has criticised Nyerere in a "very public way", which "makes people very uncomfortable".

Magufuli's main challengers include Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in 2017, and former foreign minister Bernard Membe.

On 7 September 2017, Mr. Lissu, an outspoken critic of the regime of President John Magufuli, suffered a brazen assassination attempt in which he was shot 16 times.

On Thursday, Mr Lissu, who was the candidate for Chadema, said he would not accept the results saying the vote “was not an election by both Tanzanian and international laws.

Opposition leader Tundu Lissu, left, hands in his electoral nomination form.

Opposition politician Tundu Lissu is cheered by supporters upon his arrival at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Our security forces are always so scared of diplomats, especially Western diplomats,” said Lissu.

Should the delegates' conference endorse, Mr Lissu on Tuesday, he will challenge President John Magufuli in the October elections.

Tanzanians voted in their general election on October 28 in a poll that pitted popular opposition chief Tundu Lissu against incumbent John Magufuli.

The fate of Chadema presidential candidate Tundu Lissu remained unclear.

In 2017, unidentified assailants shot an opposition member of parliament, Tundu Lissu, and in 2018, unidentified assailants killed two officials, Daniel John and Godfrey Luena, of the main opposition party, Chadema.