Tanzanian Suspend Another Newspaper

Tanzanian Suspend Another Newspaper.




Tanzanian government has suspend another newspaper for (90 days) over publications described as false information.

The Director of Information Services Dr Hassan Abbasi,  said that the newspaper had continuously spread false information”.

The newspaper’s editor Martin Malera confirmed the ban to local news portal The Citizen which reports that one of the stories that attracted the ban was published on Sunday with the Swahili headline that meant: “67 percent of Tanzanians use ARVs”.

Tanzania Daima is the fourth newspaper to be banned this year after last month’s 90 days ban of weekly newspaper Raia Mwema over an article that criticized the John Magufuli-led government.

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