Tanzania’s electoral commission has declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan as winner of the country’s presidential election.
The commission made the announcement on Saturday.
It said that Hassan won with nearly 98% of the votes.
The election that set off violent protests across the country this week, with about 700 said to have died.
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Hassan took power in 2021 after the death in office of her predecessor.
He will be handed a five-year term to govern the East African country of 68 million people.
Demonstrators are angry about the electoral commission’s exclusion of Hassan’s two biggest challengers from the race and what they described as widespread repression.
Tanzania’s main opposition party said on Friday hundreds of people had been killed in the protests, while the U.N. human rights office said credible reports indicated at least 10 people were killed in three cities.
The government dismissed the opposition’s death toll as “hugely exaggerated” and has rejected criticisms of its human rights record.
