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Claim

Claim 294

The regulations required mandatory registration and licensing of bloggers and others engaged in journalistic activity online.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement
The regulations required mandatory registration and licensing of bloggers and others engaged in journalistic activity online.
Field
action
Value
Mandatory registration of bloggers
About
incident 2018-tanzania-online-content-regulations
Source
Tanzania: Restrictive regulations on online content signed into law
Publisher
ARTICLE 19
Method
outlet report
Checked
2026-09-22
Confidence
medium
Status
current
Source date
2018-04-06

Quotation from the source

The regulations introduce mandatory registration and licensing of bloggers or any other member of the general public engaged in journalistic activities.