Tanzania: Battle heats up over constitutional review bill
2 October 2013
<div class="story-body"><p><strong>Dar es Salaam</strong> — Three Tanzanian opposition
parties plan to stage countrywide protests October 10th against the
Constitutional Review Bill, which sets the rules for how the Constituent
Assembly -- the body tasked to amending and adopting the future form of
government -- is formed.</p>
<p>Opposition leaders and other stakeholders say the bill, which the
National Assembly passed earlier this month, could tear the country
apart and are demanding that President Jakaya Kikwete reject it. They
contend the bill denies the people of Zanzibar equal representation in
the Constituent Assembly.</p> Read the full article here: