Tanzania, April 29 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's Presidential Commission of Inquiry into election-related violence has defended its approach to accountability, clarified figures on missing persons and proposed new oversight mechanisms following unrest linked to the October 29, 2025 General Election.

The commission's members addressed journalists here yesterday, just days after submitting their report to President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

They said their findings pointed to organised, financed and coordinated incidents of violence, but stressed that their mandate was strictly limited to establishing facts rather than attributing criminal guilt.

Commission chairperson, retired Chief Justice Mohamed Chande Othman, said there had been public ex...