Tanzania: Democracy is on the retreat, digital authoritarianism via surveillance, internet censorship, legislating restriction on the rise - report

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…