Tanzania, March 14 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's High Court on Friday dismissed a case challenging the legality of a presidential commission set up to investigate unrest surrounding the October 2025 general election.

Judge Awamu Mbagwa ruled that the commission established by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to probe incidents of violence during and after the October 29, 2025 vote was lawfully constituted under the country's Commissions of Inquiry Act.

"The applicants' arguments have no legal basis and are largely based on sentiment," the judge said while dismissing the petition filed by activist Rosemary Mwakitwange and lawyers Edward Heche and Deogratius Mahinyila.

The applicants had asked the court to annul the president's decision to a...