Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan, was re-elected following a ‘disputed’ elections, winning 97.66% of the votes amid violent clashes in the east African nation, on Saturday.

The elections were held on Wednesday. The Tanzanian President was widely expected to secure an easy victory in the polls as results from 120 of the country’s 272 constituencies already showed the nation's first female leader in the lead with approximately 97% of the votes, as per multiple news agency reports.

Hussain was the vice-president back then. She attended the University of Manchester in London for graduate studies to pursue Postgraduate Diploma in Economics and entered politics in 2000.

A Tanzania president's term is for five years.

State TV said that Samia Suluhu Hussain's swearing-in ceremony woul

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