2025-11-01
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Paul Moss and we're recording this edition in the early hours of Saturday,
1st of November.
Diplomats say there's credible evidence that hundreds of people have been killed during post-election violence in Tanzania,
an allegation the government denies.
U.S.
judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue funding a program which feeds millions of poor Americans,
despite the government shutdown.
When the Tutankhamun collection opens,
the whole world will come back
because this is the most famous king of all antiquity and the most intact tomb.
Egypt's long-awaited billion-dollar museum finally opens its doors.
There was a time when Tanzania was seen as a beacon of relative stability in East Africa,
indeed on the continent as a whole.
While other countries succumbed to bitter ethnic conflict, Tanzania was largely spared.
And while it may not have been a perfect democracy, there were elections results were respected.
But when Tanzanians went to the polls this week, several opposition parties had been banned,
and the announcement that President Samir Hassan was in the lead and likely to be re-elected was greeted by widespread protests,
protests which the opposition say were viciously put down.