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WordPress Freedom Day: UK Minister for Africa to address Eastern Africa Editors by KEVIN CHERUIYOT Image: FILE
• James Duddridge will give a keynote speech highlighting the work journalists have done amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
• This year’s commemoration will be the second in a row to be observed amid Covid that has not speared journalists and media houses across the world.
United Kingdom Minister for Africa James Duddridge is set to address the Eastern Africa Editors’ Society on Monday as the world marks World Press Freedom Day.
Duddridge will give a keynote speech highlighting the work journalists have done amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tanzania trims back president s order to reopen media outlets
April 9, 2021 Written by VOA Vendors arrange copies of newspapers following the death of Tanzania s President John Magufuli in Dar es Salaam, March 18, 2021
Earlier this week, new Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that media outlets shut down under her predecessor could reopen. But the chief government spokesman said Wednesday that Suluhu was only referring to online television. Journalists are confused and not happy with the new administration.
This week, Tanzanian journalists applauded an announcement from President Suluhu that media organizations suspended under the late president John Magufuli would be allowed to reopen.
MCT, stakeholders hail restored media freedom
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MCT, stakeholders hail restored media freedom
MEDIA stakeholders have expressed appreciation to President Samia Suluhu Hassan for directing authorities to desist from the tendency of banning and suspending media outlets.
“We are excited and elated,” said Kajubi Mukajanga in a statement reacting to the wide ranging speech by the president.
The remarks were part of assignments being given to permanent secretaries and their deputies after their being sworn in, along with several heads of key executive agencies. What she said raised high expectations, the veteran head of the self-regulating media ombudsman declared.
The speech also shed light on the way forward to review media laws and regulations, to amend them as required so that our country will be a nation that talks and freely discusses issues.
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