A newspaper was temporarily closed for daring to mention that the value of Tanzania’s currency had slid
statistics are two words that crop up with increasing regularity in the utterances of officials loyal to Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli. Last month a usually compliant daily newspaper, the, had the cheek to mention that the Tanzanian shilling’s value at the unofficial exchange rate had been sliding. Though this was plainly the case, it flouted the country’s bizarre Statistics Act, whereby no figure may be disseminated without verification or publication by the official organs of state.
After a week in a coma followed by a string of operations in neighbouring Kenya and in Belgium, Mr Lissu is back in full cry, with well-aired performances at Western think-tank forums and on television abroad. He has yet to return home, but insists he will do so. Mr Magufuli, he says, is “determined that by 2020 there will be no political opposition in Tanzania.
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