The night before the Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs distanced the government from a Dar es Salaam regional taskforce created to hunt gay men, 10 men were arrested in Zanzibar for allegedly holding a same-sex wedding. On November 4,Tanzania’s Ministry Of Foreign Affairs released the statement which distanced the government from the anti-LGBT actions of the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Paul Makonda. "The government of the United Republic of Tanzania would like to

Regional Commissioner for Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Paul Makonda, who is hunting down gay people and having them arrested. Image Paul Makonda Facebook. On October 31, Paul Makonda, the powerful regional commissioner for Tanzania’s economic capital Dar es Salaam, held a press conference and announced that he had set up a taskforce to hunt gay men, prostitutes, pornographers, and people fraudulently raising money on social media. He urged citizens to turn gay men into the pol