DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president on Tuesday said her government may lose access to the international funding that largely keeps the nation afloat after the worst election violence in the country’s history.

“We have to look for funds internally using our God-given resources,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

The East African nation’s Oct. 29 elections were marked by three days of protests during which the opposition asserts that more than 2,000 people died. Hundreds of others were arrested and charged with treason. The president later asked for some to be released.

Hassan was declared the winner with over 97% of the vote after competitors from the two main opposition parties were barred from running.

On Monday, she announced her new cabinet, which includes her daughter an

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