Tanzania press freedom plunges into unprecedented crisis
(World News Austria)

Since Tanzanian President John Magufuli took office in late 2015, the weekly newspaper Mawio has been forcibly shut down not just once, but twice. Most recently, the paper was banned after it published an article in June 2017 detailing problems in Tanzania`s mining industry and attaching pictures of two former presidents to the story. Using administrative powers, the government suspended Mawio for two years on grounds of `national security and public safety`. The move came just months after the country`s High Court had lifted a previous ban, handed down in January 2016. Simon Mkina, Mawio`s editor and the president of the Tanzania Journalists Alliance, told the International Press Institute...