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Media freedom in East Africa.[File, Standard]
I hear some propagandists are claiming that the attack on this media house and the shutdown of the Monitor Group in Uganda are somewhat connected to the pledge from TZ’s Suluhu Hassan to play ping-pong with Prezzo William Ruto whenever activists cross the border of either country.
Madam Suluhu said hitting such activists hard with her mikwaju would go a long way in quelling social strife that those activists have occasioned by protesting in the streets, instead of working hard to create wealth for their nations.
The third element in his unholy alliance, propagandists claim, is that the assaults in Kampala and Mombasa Road were orchestrated to coincide with a change of guard at another major media house in the region.
