Tanzania

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 February 2007 CPJ press release: Tanzania detains popular Web site editors New York, February 29, 2008 – CPJ condemns the arbitrary arrest of two popular online editors without charge. The two were detained and interrogated for 24 hours in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on February 18, in what […]

Freedom of the Press 2007: Tanzania

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 January 2008 CPJ press release: Suspects held in Tanzanian newsroom attack New York, January 8, 2008 – Police in Dar-es-Salaam said Monday that they had two suspects in custody after armed men stormed the newsroom of a popular vernacular newspaper and seriously injured two top journalists, according to […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 5 January 2008, two editors of the weekly Kiswahili-language newspaper “Mwanahalisi” were attacked and beaten by three anonymous machete-wielding assailants in their media house in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam. Saed Kubenea and Ndimara Tegambwage were beaten and disfigured when their assailants poured acid on their faces. Kubenea, who was admitted to Muhimbili […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 29 March 2007 ARTICLE 19 press release: ARTICLE 19 welcomes Tanzanian defamation proposals but urges reconsideration of media regulation ARTICLE 19 today released an analysis of the draft Media Services Bill of Tanzania. This Bill was published in March 2007, and is expected to be introduced in the […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The government of Tanzania is planning to enact an omnibus media law that would guarantee access to information held by public institutions, said President Jakaya M. Kikwete on 2 October 2006. The president was responding to questions posed by editors from various media houses who attended a press conference in the State House […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 5 July 2006, Tanzania’s minister of land and settlements development, John Magufuli, instituted criminal proceedings at Dodoma police station against two editors and one journalist of a privately-owned media house, Habari Corporation. The accused, Mr. John Bwire (chief editor), Mr. Muhingo Rweyemamu (editor), and Mr. Nephilitius Kyaruzi (journalist), were summoned only on […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has criticised the Tanzanian government for threatening to deport a journalist who appeared in a documentary film the authorities say has damaged the country’s economy and image. The organisation declared its support for Austrian film director Hubert Sauper, who has denounced the government for conducting a “campaign of intimidation” against […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters sans frontières dénonce le harcèlement dont fait l’objet Ali Mohammed Nabwa, rédacteur en chef consultant de l’hebdomadaire privé “Fahamu” et ancien rédacteur en chef de l’hebdomadaire “Dira”, suspendu depuis novembre 2003. Le journaliste a été une fois de plus déchu de sa nationalité tanzanienne par le département de l’Immigration du gouvernement semi-autonome […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar’s continuing harassment of veteran newspaper editor Ali Mohammed Nabwa, who has again been stripped of his Tanzanian nationality by the Zanzibar immigration department, just three and a half months after having it restored by the Tanzanian interior minister. Nabwa used to be the […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a 2 May 2006 MISA-Tanzania press release: MISA Communiqué (World Press Freedom Day, Tanzania) MISA-Tanzania makes case for greater information flow The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) – Tanzania has asked the government to increase the flow of information to the public to promote good governance. MISA Secretary-General, Mrs […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Tanzanian media owner and prominent businessman Reginald Mengi and several of the journalists working in his media outlets have been slapped with a 100 billion shilling (approx. US$8.6 million) libel suit allegedly for defaming the executive chairperson of the Quality Group Limited, Yusuf Manji. The historic libel suit comes a few days after […]

(AFMF/IFEX) – On 24 March 2006, four Kenyan journalists were arrested and detained by Tanzanian immigration officers while covering court proceedings in Moshi town. The journalists, Dominic Wabala and Fredrick Omondi of the “Nation” newspaper and Kimei arap Kimili and Michael Kinja of Citizen TV, were whisked from the Moshi district court and taken to […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has suspended the opposition-aligned Kiswahili newspaper “Tanzania Daima” for three days for publishing a picture deemed offensive to President Benjamin Mkapa. The government claims the photograph and its caption were misleading and intended to belittle, defame and create public disaffection against the president and his […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Tanzania’s Ministry of Education and Culture has banned a non-governmental organisation (NGO), HakiElimu, from undertaking and publishing studies regarding Tanzania’s education system. The ban became effective on September 8, 2005. According to a circular dated September 8, and sent to all government departments, HakiElimu’s executive director has been accused of “disparaging the image […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Home Affairs Minister Omar Ramadhani Mapuri has offered a public apology and retracted a 16 September 2005 statement in which he declared lawful the conduct of prison warders and prisoners accused of violating the human rights of a journalist and civilians. The minister, while retracting his earlier statement, argued that it had been […]