Tanzania government borrows leaf from Mugabe

Editors and publishers in Tanzania are no longer free. The government is doing all it can to muzzle media freedom, especially when it comes to reporting grand corruption involving big shots in the East African country. In one of the latest events, police in Dar es Salaam pounced on a weekly tabloid that has been on the forefront in reporting corrupt practices in the government. Like Mugabe used to do, the Kikwete government used police to storm in the paper's office. They harrassed editors and carried away some computers, on the grounds that they suspected some secret information had been leaked to the newspaper. Read on here.