Tanzania
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Tanzania: Surge in online LGBTIQ censorship and other targeted blocks
> The results of our analysis show that most ISPs in Tanzania appear to implement blocks by means of TLS interference, specifically by timing out the session after the ClientHello message during the TLS handshake. As the timing of the blocks and the types of URLs blocked are (mostly) consistent across (tested) networks, ISPs in Tanzania likely implement blocks in a coordinated manner (possibly through the use of Deep Packet Inspection technology).
- www.thecitizen.co.tz New pact to accelerate Zanzibar’s digital transformation journey
Mastercard will provide technical assistance and expertise to support the Zanzibar government’s efforts, including to set up a digital transformation team
Mastercard in bed with African governments designing public payment systems.
> Under the collaboration, Mastercard will provide technical assistance and expertise to support the Zanzibar government’s efforts, including to set up a digital transformation team, collaborating with the government’s payment portal, ZanMalipo, to enable digital payments, and launch two million government cards for better access to services and tourism.
- www.thecitizen.co.tz Return of Lissu fuels Chadema’s demand for new constitution
He believes that in order for the upcoming election to be free and fair, there needs to be a new Katiba and an independent electoral body
- www.thecitizen.co.tz New Constitution: Where is the starting point?
Debate focus on the process of writing the new constitution has now shifted to what should be the starting point with stakeholders agreeing on some areas and disagreeing on others.
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Tanzanians to part with Sh20,000 for renewal of national IDs - The Citizen
www.thecitizen.co.tz Tanzanians to part with Sh20,000 for renewal of national IDsThe first batch of national IDs which were issued by the National Identification Authority (NIDA) in 2013 are set to expire from next year (2023)
> Lilian Mapunda, whose Nationa ID is set to expire on August 18, 2024, said, "We are scared because there are our colleagues here on the streets since they registered, this is the second year they have not received their IDs, all they have are numbers."
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How Tanzania can stop rising sickle cell patients as alarm grows
> She says understanding the status would enable the children with the positive status to immediately start medications after reaching the age of two instead of waiting until they become anaemic.
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The story of an independent Tanzanian publisher who held out against the tide
theconversation.com Kiswahili books: the independent Tanzanian publisher who has championed the languageDespite a succession of different challenges, Bgoya’s approach has been consistent.
> Ground-breaking anti-imperialist books like Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Issa Shivji’s Class Struggles in Tanzania were released under his watch. Rodney was then based in Dar es Salaam.
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Tanzania's President John Magufuli dies at 61
www.bbc.com John Magufuli: Tanzania's president dies aged 61 after Covid rumoursCovid-sceptic John Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks.
He was a COVID- denier, askign people to pray about it and it will be gone. > Mr Magufuli has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours have been circulating about his health.
- www.theeastafrican.co.ke Death robs Tanzania of 10 prominent persons in February
Among them are Zanzibar’s First Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad and former Bank of Tanzania Governor Benno Ndulu.