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Fresh assault on digital rights and expression in Tanzania
The Tanzanian government has banned organising or supporting any form of demonstrations online and ordered citizens not to share...
Aug 5, 2020
Tanzania’s opposition picks Tundu Lissu to battle Magufuli in 2020 polls
Tanzania's main opposition party, Chadema, has nominated national vice chairman Tundu Lissu as its presidential candidate for the October...
Aug 4, 2020
Coming Tanzania vote is fraught with major concerns needing serious thought
The day of reckoning is drawing nigh for the political classes in Tanzania, and in approximately two months we shall have a more or less...
Jul 31, 2020
Troubling trends threaten what little trust remains in Tanzania’s democracy
As experts sound the alarm about rising COVID-19 cases in Africa, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has a very different message. In...
Jul 30, 2020
Tanzanian strongman’s top opponent returns home after being shot 16 times
Three years after he survived being shot 16 times in an assassination attempt, the Tanzanian opposition figure Tundu Lissu flew home from...
Jul 28, 2020
You say bullish, I say… Tanzania’s statistics smell wrong. And the IMF should say so
By official measures Tanzania is doing brilliantly. Covid-19 may be devastating its neighbours, but Tanzania is completely free of the...
Jul 27, 2020
A Potemkin economy? Why Tanzania’s statistics look fishy
A country lauded for its economic growth may not be doing as well as it says. After the cold war ended, much of Africa democratised and...
Jul 24, 2020
Rights experts call on Tanzania to end ‘crackdown’ on civic space
In their written appeal, the three Special Rapporteurs also maintained that the Government was not meeting its commitments on information...
Jul 23, 2020
Muddled messaging around COVID-19 complicates response in Tanzania
When John Peters, who lives in Dar es Salaam, tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-May, it was about two weeks after the Tanzanian...
Jul 22, 2020
NGOs excluded from election observer list to contest decision
Leading NGOs have written to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to seek reasons for their disqualification from observing the...
Jul 20, 2020
Tanzanian opposition leader urges united front ahead of vote
One opposition leader was shot 16 times and fled the country. Another had his leg broken by unknown assailants and his newspaper was shut...
Jul 20, 2020
African court orders Tanzania to allow challenges to presidential results
The African rights court on Wednesday ordered Tanzania to amend a section of its constitution which bars any court from probing the...
Jul 17, 2020
Tundu Lissu on why he moved to Kenya
Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu, took to Kenyan TV on Wednesday evening, July 15, to set the record straight on why he moved to...
Jul 16, 2020
Tanzania urges SADC countries to fight money laundering
Tanzania on Monday urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) members to join forces in the fight against money laundering...
Jul 15, 2020
Gold trade body urged to suspend refinery over alleged abuses in Tanzania
MMTC-PAMP, a supplier to Apple and others, accused of not fully investigating alleged violations Credit: Forbidden Stories A corporate...
Jul 15, 2020
Tundu Lissu and Bobi Wine talk democracy, tackling oppression and upcoming elections with The Resist
Two of East Africa’s most influential opposition leaders, Tundu Lissu and Bobi Wine joined a panel discussion last week with The...
Jul 13, 2020
Tanzania bans Kwanza Online TV for 11 months citing ‘misleading’ Instagram post on COVID-19
Tanzania’s broadcasting regulator should immediately lift its suspension of Kwanza Online TV and stop weaponizing regulations against...
Jul 10, 2020
Tanzania: Charges against comedian for laughing must be thrown out
Popular Tanzanian comedian Idris Sultan is due to be arraigned in court a second time tomorrow, 9 July, to answer charges of “failure to...
Jul 9, 2020
In Africa, lack of coronavirus data raises fear of ‘silent pandemic’
When the new coronavirus hit Tanzania in mid-April, President John Magufuli called for three days of national prayer to seek God’s...
Jul 8, 2020
African Energy Chamber concerned over arrest of three executives in Tanzania
The African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber.org) expresses its concerns over the alleged arrest and detention of three energy executives in...
Jul 7, 2020
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