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Kenya: Kenyatta's Grand Plan to Silence Free Press
African Arguments, 8 February 2018
Since coming to power, Kenyatta has tried to control the media through co-optation or force. The shut down of TV stations is his latest move. Read more »
Like his father late president Jomo Kenyatta in the 1970s and former president Daniel arap Moi in the 1980s, President Uhuru Kenyatta is slowly embodying the image of a dictator through a combination of co-opting the country's wealthy economic and political class, and brute force, writes George Ogola for African Arguments.
Journalists teargassed by anti-riot police who did not want to be filmed during a demonstration in Kisumu on October 13, 2017 (file photo).
The closure of three leading television stations on January 30 to stop the live broadcast of the "swearing-in" of National Super Alliance leader, Raila Odinga, as the ... Read more »
NTV and KTN News have resumed normal programming after the Communication Authority of Kenya finally complied with a court order that they be allowed back on air. Citizen TV and ... Read more »
The closure of three major TV stations for the the live broadcast of the "swearing-in" of opposition National Super Alliance leader Raila Odinga as the people's president, has ... Read more »
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