Hello and welcome to the programme.
This is News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Paul Henley.
We start in Tanzania, in central East Africa,
where events have taken a decidedly undemocratic turn following presidential elections last week.
The Tanzanian president, Samir Saluhu Hassan,
has today been sworn in for a second term in a ceremony held behind closed doors amid tight security.
She wore a red headscarf and sunglasses.
Tanzania's electoral commission claims the president won 98 percent of the votes.
International observers disagree,
and Samir Hassan's main challenges have either been imprisoned anyway or barred from running.
Tanzania has seen widespread turmoil since the vote last Wednesday,
and there are reports that hundreds of people have been killed and injured.
A nationwide internet shutdown is making all reports difficult to verify.
The government has sought to play down the scale of the violence and describe protesters as not patriotic at all.
We've requested interviews with the Tanzanian government and the police today.
We've had no replies.
I've been speaking to Deogratius Munishi,
who is the International Secretary of Chadima, Tanzania's main opposition party.