{"id":34769,"date":"2021-08-12T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=34769"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:24:53","slug":"tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President Samia Suluhu Hassan.<\/p>\n

A statement issued by the Director of Information Services who doubles as Chief Government Spokesperson Gerson Msigwa said the paper, which is owned by the ruling party CCM\u2019s Uhuru Media Group, published false information which purported that the President had no intention to vie for the next general election.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday afternoon, CCM General Secretary Daniel Chongolo had issued an apology for the misleading story as he announced that three Uhuru bosses have been suspended so far, pending for an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Office of the Director of Information-MAELEZO has found that the news had both legal and professional gaps\u2026. for publishing false against the President of United Republic of Tanzania Hon Samia Suluhu Hassan contrary to Section 50 (I) (a), (b) and (d) and Section 52 (d) and (e) of the Information Services Act No. 12 of 2016,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

However, the director said in the statement that under Section 10(I) of the Information Act of 2026, the newspaper has a room to appeal if not satisfied by the penalty.<\/p>\n

He reminded the media to adhere to the laws, regulations and professionalism for betterment of the society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President Samia Suluhu Hassan. A statement issued by the Director of Information Services who doubles as Chief Government Spokesperson Gerson Msigwa said the paper, which is owned by the ruling party CCM\u2019s Uhuru Media Group, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,8,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-34769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nTanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"564\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\",\"name\":\"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":564,\"caption\":\"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication - Tanzania","description":"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication","og_description":"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":564,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication","datePublished":"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication"},"wordCount":215,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Tanzania","tanzania"],"articleSection":["all news","culture and art","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication","name":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-12T14:00:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/08\/img-611504eee2f1f.jpg","width":720,"height":564,"caption":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tanzania-govt-imposes-14-day-ban-to-uhuru-publication#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tanzania Govt imposes 14-day ban to Uhuru publication"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}