Tanzania: Democracy is on the retreat, digital authoritarianism via surveillance, internet censorship, legislating restriction on the rise - report
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Executive Summary
Democracy is on the retreat in Tanzania. While constitutionally a multiparty country, Tanzania is displaying the patterns of a de facto one-party state. As with most authoritarian governments, anything that provides access to public discourse is portrayed as a “threat to national security.”
At the same time, digital technologies have rev…
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