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Tanzania: State admits "doing little" to popularize new information bill.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Adam Ihucha entitled "Government has done little on media bill-minister" published Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian website on 27 February

The government has said it has done little to show media stakeholders the positive side of the controversial draft Freedom of Information Bill.

'It is true that the government has not done enough to sensitize media stakeholders and the larger public on the good side of the draft bill,' Information, Sports and Culture Minister Muhammed Seif Khatib said yesterday in Arusha [northeastern Tanzania].

The minister was responding to a question from a …

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