Dar es Salaam — Government decision to ban Mwanahalisi weekly newspaper has been greeted with an uproar by media stakeholders and rights activists.
Speaking to The Citizen in separate phone interviews shortly after the director of Information Services, Dr Hassan Abbasi, announced the decision, media stakeholders termed it as unfair and a threat to freedom of the press.
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