Prominent Tanzanian activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai, who has said she was abducted by armed men in Kenya and released after several hours, has recounted her ordeal. On Monday, she told a press briefing, she was manhandled, choked and shouted at by four unknown assailants who forced her into a vehicle in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Sunday afternoon.

Tanzanian rights activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai was abducted in Nairobi by individuals believed to be Tanzanian security agents. Tsehai, an advocate fo

Prominent Tanzanian activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai who was abducted by armed men in Kenya said she has been released, hours after the incident. Amnesty International Kenya spokesperson Roland Ebole told the BBC she was "forced" into a vehicle in the capital Nairobi on Sunday afternoon.

Tanzanian journalist and human rights activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai, highly critical of her country's government, accused Tanzanian authorities on Monday of involvement in her abduction on Sunday in Nairobi and lamented the growing repression suffered by the Tanzanian opposition.

A renowned Tanzanian rights activist was kidnapped on the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday, only to be released after a rapid intervention by rights groups.