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Tanzania suspends news websites over ad referencing killings of dissidents

Tanzania suspends news websites over ad referencing killings of dissidents



Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a spate of recent abductions and killings of dissidents.The advert, published on X and Instagram on Tuesday by the Citizen, an English-language newspaper, showed the president flipping through TV channels. Each channel showed people speaking about loved ones they had lost through disappearances. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/tanzania-citizen-newspaper-publisher-advert-killings-dissidents

Author : Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi

Publish date : 2024-10-03 12:00:49

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