Police have fired gunshots on the streets of Tanzania’s largest city during protests after a tumultuous presidential election .

In Dar-es-Salaam, a city of more than seven million people, protesters who defied a curfew on Thursday in the Mbagala, Gongo la Mboto and Kiluvya neighbourhoods were met with tear gas and the sounds of gunfire on the day after the election.

Internet access remained down across the city, where hundreds had set polling stations alight and chanted their discontent on election day.

“We have been silent for so long,” one protester shouted in a video posted to TikTok and verified by Al Jazeera. “What have we been doing?”

Wednesday’s election saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s two biggest challengers excluded from the race, infuriating citizens and rights groups

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