Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)

(MISA/IFEX) – Managing director of Guardian Limited Vumi Urasa, who owns the newspapers “Kasheshe” and “Tingisha”, has apologised to the government for publishing and distributing “Tingisha” four days after the government had suspended “Kasheshe”. **Updates IFEX alerts dated 24, 15, 12 and 9 June 1998** According to a government statement released by Tanzania Information Services […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 3 July 1998, a pick-up van belonging to the editor of “MoAfrika” newspaper, Candi Ramainoana, was stolen in broad daylight. The theft, according to Ramainoana, is part of a persistent campaign of harassment against him that has been going on for close onto two years by people who want to “intimidate me […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 3 July 1998, the Kilimanjaro regional police commissioner (RC), Professor Philemon Sarungi, directed the police to conduct an immediate investigation into the fire that destroyed the house of BBC correspondent Nechi Lyimo on 30 June 1998 in Moshi (northern Tanzania). **Updates IFEX alerts of 18 June and 3 July 1998** According to […]

(MISA/IFEX) – According to MISA, on the night of 30 June 1998, a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent and his family escaped death after their house was set alight by unknown people in Moshi (northern Tanzania). **Updates IFEX alert of 18 June 1998** Journalist Nechi Lyimo, who is based in the northern zone, stays in […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 25 June 1998, the editor of the defunct “Crime News” and “Confidential” newspapers, Steward Mwila, was detained and searched by a combined team of police and immigration officers as he was about to leave for South Africa. Mwila told the Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) that he was made to disembark from […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Police in Zanzibar on 21 June 1998, confiscated the film of photo-journalist Amour Nassor, who works for the state-owned weekly “Nuru”. Nassor was on assignment at the time to cover voting in a parliamentary by-election in Mikunguni. He was taking photos of voters at the Kijangwani polling station when he was surrounded by […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The government of Tanzania intends to review media laws which have been deemed oppressive, the government owned “Daily News” reported on 20 June 1998. Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye told the National Assembly in Dodoma on 19 June that the government would table before the House the possible amendments to laws relating to the […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 22 June 1998, the government of Tanzania banned two more privately owned Kiswahili tabloids. A statement issued by the Tanzania Information Services in Dodoma said the newspapers “Tingisha” and “Watu” had been banned for violating the Newspaper Act No. 3 of 1976 and the Newspaper Regulations of 1977. The statement said, “the […]