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Minister hints that missing journalist is dead

Publish date: 15 July 2019
Issue Number: 832
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Tanzania

A report on the Daily Nation site notes that Tanzania's Foreign Minister Paramagamba Kabudi has appeared to say that a journalist who went missing in 2017 may have died. In a media interview he was asked if the state had done enough to find out what happened to the investigative journalist Azory Gwanda. 'The state is dealing with all those who have unfortunately died and disappeared ... it was very painful for someone who was doing his job to pass on,' Kabudi said without elaborating. The Committee to Protect Journalists, which has been campaigning for the government to launch a credible investigation into the case, said Gwanda was investigating cases of mysterious killings in his community in the months before his disappearance.

Full report on the Daily Nation site

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