Nairobi, Sept. 7 -- Dar es Salaam. It has emerged that the Kenya Human Rights Commission in collaboration with civil society organisations (CSOs) from Tanzania, East and Southern Africa region, will monitor Tanzania's October General Election mostly virtually.

The team monitoring the poll includes prominent judges from Kenya and Uganda who have formed the Tanzanian Election Watch panel. It is an alternative independent oversight body comprising leading pan-Africanists, human rights defenders and media professionals.

According to a report by the Kenyan media, the team members named include Kenya's former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and Uganda's Constitutional Review Commission chairman Prof Fredrick Ssempebwa.

Others are Uganda's High Cou...