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Mwangosi verdict leaves a lot of questions, and a bitter taste
A court in Iringa today sentenced police officer Pacifius Simon to 15 years imprisonment for the manslaughter of journalist Daud Mwangosi in September 2012. In one sense, this brings the case to a...
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dot-com, dot-org or dot-tz? What does Tanzanian law say?
Maxence Melo charge sheet #3 The recent arrest of digital media entrepreneur Maxence Melo of JamiiForums.com raises serious questions and concerns about freedom of speech, but one relatively minor...
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Dear Chambi: don’t stop blogging, your voice is needed
from Nipashe, Dec 1, 2016 Dear Chambi, I hope you don’t mind me writing you a public letter like this. But it feels like the most appropriate way of saying what I want to say. Because your decision to...
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When security forces draw weapons on a politician, something has gone very wrong
from mwananchi.co.tz A gun was pulled on Nape Nnauye today, in broad daylight in a car park full of journalists in Dar es Salaam, reportedly by a security officer. They were apparently trying to...
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“Be careful, watch it!”– Translated excepts from speech of President Magufuli
Earlier today (March 24, 2017), President Magufuli spoke at a ceremony in to formally appoint new Ministers and Ambassadors. He referred directly to two significant events earlier this week, the visit...
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Wapo! The song that got rapper Nay wa Mitego locked up – A rough translation
Nay wa Mitego, on release from police custody Tanzanian rapper, Nay wa Mitego was locked up on Sunday, for a song. He was released on Monday, after the intervention of President Magufuli and the new...
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“Acacia surrender”: Tz newspaper coverage of mineral concentrates saga
Nipashe 15/6/17 On Wednesday, the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, met with the Chairman of Barrick Gold, John Thornton, who had flown in from North America for the purpose. The State House...
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Yesterday was Access to Information Day 2017. Meanwhile, in Tanzania …
Mwananchi, 29/9/17 As we marked Access to Information Day, 2017 … … the communications regulator – TCRA – held a consultation on proposed new online content regulations. Among other things, the...
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Has Zitto revealed fake news on Tz economic growth?
The Citizen, 2/11/2017 Zitto Kabwe was arrested last week. He must be getting used to this by now, as he’s been held and questioned by the police on several occasions over the past couple of years....
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Another Tanzanian newspaper is suspended. This time, by its own management
“Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it...
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Charts: Public support for presidential term limits in Tanzania
The question of presidential term limits came up this week. The Second Vice President of Zanzibar, Seif Ali Idd endorsed the idea of increasing the presidential term from 5 to 7 years, which had...
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Charts: Tanzania, democracy and open (/closed?) budgets
Is democracy on the decline in Tanzania? With newspapers being suspended (and suspending themselves?), TV stations fined, opposition politicians and other government critics arrested (or shot), and...
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Tanzania, the Economist, and the battle of fake news: who is Dr Herman Louise...
By IFLA – http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57084301 The Economist rarely pays much attention to Tanzania – once or twice a year at...
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Fees, licences and lots of uncertainty: What’s in Tanzania’s new “online...
I blog, mostly here. I post on social media, mostly Twitter. I help run a few websites. I read and watch a lot of news articles, blogs, social media posts, YouTube videos and more, and sometimes I post...
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Does Kinana’s resignation signal the final goodbye to CCM’s 2012 rebranding...
I am delighted to be able to provide space for this guest post from Aikande Kwayu, but also sad that it is necessary. Aikande has very understandably decided to close down her own blog following the...
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Learning from the Tbilisi OGP Summit: Hope and ideas in an age of closing...
Photo by @Nnenna In the opening plenary session of the latest Open Government Partnership summit, one panellist offered his definition of open government: government of the people, by the people and...
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Are political party defections in Tanzania diminishing CCM or enhancing its...
Guest post by Aikande Kwayu Waitara and Polepole, from The Citizen, July 29 Ongoing party politics in Tanzania show that restrictions over civic space – freedom of assembly, etc – are not adequate to...
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The digger and the bulldozer – Zitto Kabwe’s arrest
Zitto Kabwe at Kisutu Magistrate’s Court, 2/11/2018. Photo from The Citizen “For a citizen, there is no patriotism greater than criticising your country’s government. The bigger patriotism is to defend...
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The Citizen gets suspended. And for what?
The Citizen newspaper was suspended today by the Government of Tanzania, for a period of seven days. The paper has reported that their front page article from Saturday 23 February was given as the...
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“Is this sanction proportionate?” The diplomatic response to attacks on media...
We’ve seen a display of unity from eight embassies / ambassadors / high commissioners to Tanzania today, responding the suspension of The Citizen newspaper with a series of tweets:...
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