The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the arrest of noted journalist Erick Kabendera in Tanzania and demanded his immediate release. Erick Kabendera, a freelance journalist who has written for several publications around the world, was arrested by plainclothes policemen from […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, announces the creation of the IPI Tanzania National Committee, which will bring a powerful new voice to the fight for press freedom and independent journalism in Tanzania. IPI National Committees are national-level associations of IPI members, who are media professionals and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Tanzanian Editors Forum (TEF) welcome the openness expressed this week by government officials and political leaders in Tanzania to engage in constructive dialogue with national stakeholders aimed at improving the environment for quality, independent journalism. During a meeting with IPI and TEF on April 2, Information Minister Dr. […]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s ominous warning to journalists last month that press freedom had “limits” following a sequence of events that led to the firing of his information minister has raised new concerns about authoritarianism in the east African republic. Over the course of Magufuli’s nearly 18 months in office, newspapers have been shuttered, opposition rallies […]