Chadema Party Leader Tundu Lissu and Tanzania President Samia Suluhu

Samia’s defining test: Lissu’s family tragedy exposes Tanzania’s unresolved political crisis

For Tundu Lissu, November 6 was supposed to be the day Tanzania’s courts determined whether he would walk free or face conviction in a treason case that has come to symbolise the country’s increasingly fraught relationship with political dissent. Instead, the date has acquired a painful personal significance. The imprisoned chairman of the opposition party…