Issa Ngumba Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Obama should urge promotion of free press in Tanzania

June 25, 2013 2:52 PM EDT

Dear President Obama: Ahead of your first trip to East Africa, we would like to bring to your attention the deteriorating state of press freedom in Tanzania. In your meetings with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, we ask that you discuss the critical importance of press freedom to economic development and democracy.

Tanzanian journalist found murdered in forest

January 9, 2013 5:32 PM EST

Nairobi, January 9, 2013–A journalist was found murdered in northwestern Tanzania on Tuesday, three days after he went missing from his home, according to local journalists and local reports.