Seven months after President John Magufuli signed the Media Services Bill 2016 into an Act, a Swahili tabloid, Mawio, becomes the first newspaper to face the wrath of the law.
The move comes a day after the government warned media houses, especially newspapers against dragging the names of former presidents into the mineral concentrates saga.
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