{"id":22675,"date":"2025-11-02T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=22675"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:09:27","slug":"joint-statement-by-foreign-ministers-of-canada-norway-and-the-united-kingdom-on-situation-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/joint-statement-by-foreign-ministers-of-canada-norway-and-the-united-kingdom-on-situation-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement by Foreign Ministers of Canada, Norway and the United Kingdom on situation in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>From:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/global-affairs.html\">Global Affairs Canada<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Statement<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>October 31, 2025 &#8211; Ottawa, Ontario &#8211; Global Affairs Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Foreign Ministers of Canada, Norway and the United Kingdom today issued the following statement: <\/em><em>\u201cWe are concerned by the situation in Tanzania following the national elections of October 28 and 29. There are credible reports of a large number of fatalities and significant injuries as a result of the security response to protests, which began on October 29.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe continue to urge the authorities to act with maximum restraint and respect the right of assembly and freedom of expression.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe remain concerned that the run-up to the elections was marked by harassment, abductions and intimidation of opposition figures, journalists and civil society actors.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe call on the Tanzanian authorities to uphold their international commitments and ensure that all citizens can participate freely and safely in public life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Contacts<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Media Relations Office<br \/>\nGlobal Affairs Canada<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:media@international.gc.ca\">media@international.gc.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:\u00a0Global Affairs Canada Statement October 31, 2025 &#8211; Ottawa, Ontario &#8211; Global Affairs Canada The Foreign Ministers of Canada, Norway and the United Kingdom today issued the following statement: \u201cWe are concerned by the situation in Tanzania following the national elections of October 28 and 29. There are credible reports of a large number of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":22677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22678,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions\/22678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}