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Tanzania goes back on decision to lift media ban

Tanzania goes back on decision to lift media ban

TANZANIA has revised a decision to lift a ban on all media in the country, clarifying that only online television would benefit from the measure, a government spokesman said in a tweet. The country's new President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Tuesday that media banned under her late predecessor John Magufuli should be allowed to operate. Following on from an announcement that the government was forming a committee to research COVID-19, Tuesday's announcement appeared to indicate a change in course for the nation after Magufuli's death last month. Yet a day later, the decision, welcomed by local and international press…
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Tanzania’s president reviews COVID-19 stance, lifts media ban

Tanzania’s president reviews COVID-19 stance, lifts media ban

TANZANIA’S new president Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday drew a line under her predecessor's controversial stances on COVID-19 and the media, indicating an apparent change in course for the nation after the death of John Magufuli last month. Hassan announced she was forming a committee to research whether Tanzania should follow the course taken by the rest of the world against the pandemic. "We cannot segregate ourselves like an island, but also we cannot blindly accept what is being brought forward to us (on COVID-19) without carrying out our own investigations and inputs," she told officials at State House in the…
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