This evidence-led archive covers eight distinct Tanzania cases, from the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing and the kidnapping of Mohammed Dewji to targeted killings, press-freedom cases and violence against people with albinism.
Verified convictions appear here, with acquittals, sentence terminology and gaps in the public appellate record kept explicit.
A truck bomb outside the U.S. Embassy killed 11 people. Multiple participants received life sentences, while official fugitive cases remain open.
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Wayne Lotter was shot after his airport taxi was blocked in Masaki. Eleven people were convicted in 2022; seven other defendants had been acquitted at the close of the prosecution case.
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A young person with albinism was murdered in Bukombe District. Three defendants were convicted, and the Court of Appeal upheld the result in 2010.
Open case file →Cases with no current final conviction appear here, including a recovered kidnapping victim whose perpetrators and motive remain unresolved.
Dewji was abducted outside a hotel and released after ten days. No final conviction of the principal kidnappers was located.
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A one-year-old child with albinism was taken from his family home and found dead two days later. No final conviction was located.
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Azory Gwanda vanished after leaving home with unidentified men. A minister later referred to his death, but no public evidence or prosecution has resolved the case.
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A reporter was killed while covering a political gathering. A police officer's manslaughter conviction was quashed, and no reliable final retrial outcome was located.
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The opposition MP survived a shooting outside his parliamentary residence. No assailant has been prosecuted, and later surveillance allegations remain unadjudicated.
Open case file →Eight verified case files are published: three solved or adjudicated and five unresolved or partial.
Masked gunmen abducted him outside a Dar es Salaam hotel on October 11, 2018. He returned home safely ten days later.
Dewji said in 2019 that no ransom was paid.
No final conviction identifying the principal kidnappers was located in the source review.
The one-year-old child was abducted from his home in 2015 and found dead two days later. No final conviction was located.
No assailant was prosecuted in the reliable public record reviewed.
A truck bomb killed 11 people in 1998; multiple participants were later convicted in U.S. federal proceedings.
Crime by Region separates documented events, victim accounts, prosecution allegations, trial findings, acquittals, convictions, sentences and later procedural status. The archive does not turn an arrest or an unresolved official theory into guilt.