Thousands Fired Over Fake Certificates
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report into fraudulent...
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Tanzania’s President Magufuli Sacks 10,000 Over Fake Certificates
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report into fraudulent...
Tanzania’s President Sacks 10,000 Civil Servants Over Fake Certificates
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report into fraudulent...
Tanzania’s Magufuli Sacks 10,000 Over Fake Certificates
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report into fraudulent...
Thousands of Tanzanian Civil Servants Found With Fake School Certificates
Nearly 10,000 Tanzanian civil servants have fake school certificates, according to a report received by President John Magufuli. The details released in the capital, Dodoma, show that 9,932...
Media ‘never Under So Much Threat’, Says Watchdog
Press freedom has never been as threatened as it is now, in the "new post-truth era of fake news" after the election of US President Donald Trump, Reporters Without Borders warned Wednesday. Its...
Search For Missing Tanzanian Musician
Tanzanian Bongo Fleva artist Ibrahim Musa aka Roma Mkatoliki is missing after allegedly being arrested this morning in the commercial capital Dar es salaam. He was reportedly picked up at a recording...
Tanzanians Mock Magufuli Over Press Freedom Warning
Tanzanians have been taking to Twitter to poke fun at President John Magufuli, as criticism mounts against his government's attitude towards freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Last week he...
Tanzania Rapper Nay Wa Mitego Arrested For Criticising President
Tanzanian rapper Emmanuel Elibariki, known as Nay wa Mitego, has been arrested for releasing a song deemed insulting to the government. The song emerged last week and has been widely shared on social...
Tanzania Rapper Nay Wa Mitego Arrested For Criticising President
Tanzanian rapper Emmanuel Elibariki, known as Nay wa Mitego, has been arrested for releasing a song deemed insulting to the government. The song emerged last week and has been widely shared on social...
Tanzania’s Information Minister Fired
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has sacked his information minister, who launched an investigation into a powerful government administrator accused of intimidating a popular private media station...
Tanzanian Minister Sacked After Condemning TV Intrusion
Tanzania's information minister was fired on Thursday after he criticised an ally of President John Magufuli who had stormed into a television station accompanied by armed men. The sacking comes amid...
Tanzania To Send 500 Doctors To Kenya To Help Cover Strike
Tanzania will send 500 doctors to Kenya to help overcome the effects of a strike in public hospitals, the Tanzanian president's office said on Saturday,18th March 2017. Kenya's doctors went on strike...
Tanzanian TV Journalists Suspended Over Fake Trump News
A top Tanzanian television presenter has been suspended, along with eight fellow employees of the main state-run channel, for relaying fake news in which US President Donald Trump praised his...
Tanzania Broadcaster Suspends Staff Over Fake Trump News
Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a hoax story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli's performance. The article appeared on...
Tanzania Offers Dangote Land To Mine Coal To Fuel Cement Production
After last year’s deal by Tanzania’s government to supply natural gas to Dangote Cement Company in the southeastern town of Mtwara, the state has offered land to the Nigerian company to mine coal...
Tanzania Civil Society Urges Govt To Respect Basic Freedoms
Tanzanian civil society organisations have launched a year-long campaign calling on the government to respect freedom of expression and assembly. Launched on Wednesday, the campaign "seeks to...
The Hopeful 100-Days In Office of President Nana Akufo-Addo
By Cletus D Kuunifaa The first hundred days of any presidency could be measured by the successes and accomplishments as of the time of assumption of office. We are in a cruise for President Nana...
Guide Charged Over ‘twisted Translation’
A Tanzanian tourist guide has been charged in court with breaching cybercrime legislation after he wrongly translated a tourist’s comments in a video he put on Facebook. Saimon Sirikwa was not...
Tanzanian Arrested For ‘fake Translation’ of Tourist Comments
A tour guide at a Tanzanian game park has been arrested after falsely translating a tourist's comments about the country and its people. In a widely circulated video clip, the guide says in Swahili...