This is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes and that the missing journalist in tanzania eric was taken by an identified man from. On monday off. To be in these custody the hash tag 3 eric of a company has been trending in the country. And fury over the fall as well find out why ugandans are angry over government plans to build an energy dad the famous is simple. The civic center doesnt go up but also at the pressure to. Survive without us regardless of what we go to. Christine when to welcome to news africa im glad you cheated in the Committee To Protect Journalists says its concerned about the safety off eric of indiana after
the prominent investigative journalist was detained on monday at his home in. Tanzania as Inspector GeneralPolice Confirmed i had been taken to a Police Station for questioning the committee to protect the Subsaharan Africa representative well tolkien was told his disappearance close very ominous and further evidence that the press is not safe in president john. John mcafee was in thats a president off tanzania in 2015 and they israel newspapers have been closed and generalists arrest and threatened with death have indias disappearances already trending on twitter and the hash tag free eric of india one use of pushes us president Thomas Jefferson saying our liberty depends on the Freedom Of The Press and that cannot be limited without being lost im joined now by ernest small in
whom what National Coordinator of Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition hes coming to us from dallas and im walking to daves every africa tell us more about who eric that india is and why the authorities would want him in custody. Issue im aware are a long time problem and theres a good deal is in of the largest in the country he has been putting too many houses in from the media and also recently he has been writing a lot on what is not in time going you know. It will about school days a lot of the article explaining. What is happening probably especially on their Wedding Party so if you want to is one of our. Modern prominent. I missed you all it becomes too. Late you know what its not doing the country especially in our in the money or the. Media weve been in our city country. At youre talking
about the fact that he has been reporting about what is happening in tanzania what is happening in tanzania what has he been reporting. Of course you have been reporting what is up in the country in terms of. Field rome and their own internal human rights and freedom and dignity and it was particularly crispy on a freestanding that was actually. As dick cheney said busy who. Says as specially print media or the media a number of laws have been in my pocket at least 3 beatles and you didnt get the country right nor so i dont know about me some busted in with they the government said why and then i dont understand you this get it youre right its been or is on the front line try to not get it to reveal what is happening that it will be in the country using water roco i didnt and i know media alright your organization has called full a National Conference to discuss the issue off kidnapping why. Of
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day in one else and that did it feel about islam it went missing some time and the idea at the end and then went missing and then found it so did ok if they could cut it a bit then i was missing and they were going to do what wrote that hes. Got it by the police so this such kind of mistake of course proved to com in print and in court were mistaken does this you know this guy ok as how would you describe aspirin free them in tanzania as we speak. As i was going to going down thats where we are were out we at when. We are not be using our War Tradition or like media we still talk about this war that they were going to set number of roles. And that it was she today but ive never been there the war we have a little cynical censorship among ourselves your. Group of media our community in
the country people like that you dont have to be brought before the moment they do so or the end up being that getting little warning signs in some of them of being the 1st spend their golden some time. When hes not in the country and at the same time were all like that we all like that get a look thats really or like to use the allies to express ourselves but it didnt bother me when hes actually committing the crimes right now that requires. No. Debate. On this you know all including one National Coordinator of Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition thank you apart from the ranting and intimidating individual jhon that some countries simply restrict the flow of information governments across africa are clamping down on the internet more and more mauritania so done ethiopia and to bomb or shut down web traffic this yet only this januarys involvement would have a total internet shut down when violent protests over
a dramatic fuel price increase resulted in a date he cracked up the Global Digital rights act safe proof now 21 reports shutdowns across africa and 2018 of those seem a good idea. Net activists say some governments use the simplest of scams to keep citizens off line by fixing the price have a. Whole generation that made the stands to lose out if they if if if fantasy of and the cost of internet rises i think the bubble had incidences way more about Network Operators and government have colluded and to raise the price of data in the past when people have come out and cried because times before bad government sometimes out prices across the internet so that people cant go online
and con protest and country use social media Concrete Hashtags To who to call out the government and what its doing is on them across the internet and we think dems were used by government to send its citizens. Ugandans are furious about a foreign firms proposal to the government to build an energy dam near the famous Murchison Falls on africas longest river the nile the Murchison Waterfalls the safe to be the biggest attraction off you can dislodge just in most visited National Park also named after the Scenic Forest Environmental Activists and tall operates his have vowed not to allow the Energy Developers to touch the fragile ecosystem. Vain critical roar of much the same falls on the river nile. Surrounded by a rich biodiversity vulnerable species like the reassure b. O. Can be supported here while the iconic falls in ugandas largest National Park is a must see for tourists he does know what shock to the unusual attention. Energy developer wants to construct a hey do electricity down here but many ugandans are against the idea. Putting it down of power or force its going to affect it for is it safe and tourism is going to reaches a person to love nature just imagining that in that order this force is not going to be there just doesnt exist it doesnt it doesnt all go well but also i think we should know that nature can survive without us we cannot survive without it. Conservation is sworn that the much is unfolds National Park is already under pressure from oil and Gas Exploration activities and from porch and building
a dam wolf either through it in a fragile ecosystem. It does what about surveyed the 7 to 6 different species 450 different species the 2nd biggest in this to this country but if you put them with together or the 2 making this or that beauty or that they busted i think the becomes one of the most. Interesting National Parks in the world but thats they have us to is a complemented by the force itself we have with those Points Of View to protect the sort of source i think of where the probably the hundreds to form a government thats a kind destroy everything you can stick to thing because overall over another development the government has now called for calm as it examines the proposal by Bernanke Energy is South African based farm now allegedly the feedback from the public has been negative and really fame please didnt think that we were i mean
this is all about you the mission that we are making. Boyd the air up to 18 making a decision in addition that Technicality Essayists points to the irish. In 200728 party has failed to stop the construction of a hydropower a scenic Whitewater Rafting area and a secret culture site on the same river. The dam no generates more electricity to run functionaries. But what used to be an important tourism draw is normal now there were generally falls have been submerged. Conservation streets they will support governments plan to industrialize the economy only if it does not disregard to the environment and that is sustained because systems such as much some falls. Ethiopia say as it has broken the world record for the most trees planted in
a single day on Monday Ethiopians granted 350000000 trees as part of the governments plan to prod 4000000000 saplings this scheme is part of Prime MinisterGreen Legacy Initiative to restore the countrys landscape to its former glory statistics say less than 4 percent of the countrys nand a small forest if thats down from around a 3rd at the end of the 19th century officials hope the Guineas Book Of Records will confirm the total allowing ethiopia to grab the Tree Planting record that india set in 2017. And thats it for now from news africa as always you can catch wall stories on our website and Facebook Page because all those trees have been planted in ethiopia we leave you with saplings in africa and the great trees they can grow into the next time i die