a source like me this is weekend edition's the story. to be very personal tips on berlin's very. good to know where everyone can t.w. . this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes and that missing journalist in tanzania eric was taken by unidentified men from. on monday off. to be in these custody the hash tag 3 eric of it has been training in the country. and fury over the falls will find out why ugandans are angry over government plans to build an energy dam the famous murchison falls. to the civic center doesn't have it all go with it but also i think we should all survive.

hello i'm christine one to welcome to news africa i'm glad you did the committee to protect journalists ses it's concerned about the safety off eric of indiana after the prominent investigative journalist was detained on monday at his home in. tanzania as inspector general police confirm have been dare have been taken to a police station for questioning the committee to protect the subsaharan africa representative well tolkien was told his disappearance quote very ominous and further evidence that the press is not safe in president john. john mcafee he was in that's a president ofttimes and yet in 2015 under his rule newspapers have been closed and

generalists arrest and threatened with death i mean there is disappearances already trending on twitter and the hash tag free eric of india one use of pushes us president thomas jefferson saying our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost i'm joined now by on a small including what national coordinator of tanzania human rights defenders coalition is coming to us from dallas and i'm walking to africa tell us more about who eric that india is and why the authorities would want him in custody. issue i'm aware are a long time problem and there's a good deal easy in every journalist in the country it has been putting 2000000 houses in tanzania and also recently have been writing a lot on what is not in time going you know. it will about school days

a lot of the article explaining. what is happening probably especially on their wedding party so if you want is one of our. modern prominent. journalists do all it becomes. lately what is motivating the country especially in our in the money or the. media we've been in our city country at you're talking about the fact that he has been reporting about what is happening in tanzania what is happening in tanzania what has he been reporting. of course he has been reporting what is often in the contents of. federal mint and their own original human rights of freedom and dignity and it was particularly crispy on a freestanding that was actually. at risk of shame say busy who. is an especially print media or the media

a number of laws have been marketed that restrict people's and you've made even that in the country right now or so i don't know about me some busted in with index that the government says and then i don't know just and you this get your notice it's been or is on the front line trying not get it to reveal what is happening that will be in the country using more roco i didn't and i know media alright y'all than i think since i have called full a national conference to discuss the issues off kidnapping why. of course it is quite it's quite strange that over now a number of people are missing and focused the f.b.i. and some of them are coming by some of them. and the city lost many space initially the number of people up when will the sub reach the number of 100 so that no one not 100 people among them will have to be done at least be and we have been for the johnson or even ready chief that they

will see some piano as a kidnapping is becoming them a c.b.s. program in the country today is that we have an issue that has been courting the local media especially that security agent we've been a couple meant to the security and life for people in time but now because even over recent speaking one of the prominent government officials spoke in one else and that did it feel about islam it went missing some time and that the f.b.i. today went missing and then found it so did ok if they could call it that then i was missing and they were going to do a quote that is. that is by the police all this such kind of mistake. as to come in front and in court all were mistaken does this you know this guy ok as how would you describe as press freedom in tanzania as we speak. as i was going to going down that's where we are we're out we at when. we are not but we

using our war. or like media we still talk about this war that they were going to set number of rolls this low and that it was. i've never been there the war we have a little cynical censorship by myself a liberal media or community in the country they feel like they should look up to the front you because the moment they do so or the end up being that getting little warning signs in some of them of being the 1st then they go doing something. so this is not in the country and at the same time we're all like that we all like to get a look that's really on like you like a lot or like to express ourselves but it didn't bother me when he's actually committing the crimes right now that requires. no. religion. when it's

all including one national coordinator of tens and human rights defenders coalition thank you apart from the arresting and intimidating individual jhon that some countries simply restrict the flow of information governments across africa clamping down on the internet more and more mauritania done ethiopia and to bomb or shut down web traffic this yet only this january's involvement wanted a total internet shut down when violent protests over a dramatic fuel price increase resulted in a deadly crackdown a global digital rice at face proof now 21 reports shutdowns across africa in 28 pm 13 a get the india. net activists say some governments use the simplest of scams to keep citizens off line by fixing the price have a. generation that made the stands to lose out if they if if

if from the ship and the cost of internet rises i think it had incident is way more about a network operator than government have colluded and to raise the price of data in the past when people have come out and cried because the times before that government sometimes out prices across the internet so that people can't go online and con protest and come to use social media concrete hashtags to who to call out the government on what it's doing sometimes across the internet and we think. he was by government too and if that isn't. ugandans are furious about f.r. and firms proposal to the government to build an energy dam near the famous murchison falls on africa's longest river the nile the murchison waterfalls the say to be the biggest attraction off the dentist largest and most visited national park

also named off to the scenic forced environmental activists and toll operators have vowed not to allow the energy developers to touch the fragile ecosystem. vain critical rule of much use unfolds on the river nile. surrounded by a rich by you diversity vulnerable species like that reassured below can be supported here while the iconic falls in uganda's largest national park is a must see for tourists he does know what shock to them use your attention. in a developer has wanted to construct a hage electricity down here but many ugandans are against the idea. putting it down of power or force it's going to affect it for is it safe and tourism is going to reaches a passenger loves nature just imagining that in that order this force is not going

to be there just as a big thing it doesn't it doesn't all go well but also i think we should know that nature can survive without us we cannot survive without it. conservationists warn that the much the same falls national park is already under pressure from oil and gas exploration activities and from porch and building a dam wolf either through it in a fragile ecosystem. it does what about survey to see 76 different number species 450 different bugs bush is the 2nd biggest in this in this country but if you put them with together or that you're making this or that beauty or that gave us to i think the becomes one of the most beautiful and interesting national parks in the work but that's they have us to is a complemented by the force itself we hope with those sponsibility to protect the sort of source i think of where the poet the hundreds to form a government that's

a kind destroy everything you can stick a thing because overall over another development the government has now called for calm as it examines the proposal by bernanke energy is south african based farm now allegedly the feedback that got from the public has being negative and really fading please didn't think that we were i mean this is all about you permission that we and making available at that point of air up to 18 making a decision in addition to that technicality at this point for the irish. in 2007 to a party has failed to stop the construction of a hydro power a cynic whitewater rafting area and the sacred site on the sim river. the dam no generates more electricity to run factories but what used to be an important tourism draw ease no more now that would be for was have been submerged.

conservation say yes they will support government's plan to industrialize the economy only if it does not disregards the environment and. systems such as much some falls. if you say as it has broken the world record for the most trees planted in a single day on monday ethiopians planted 350000000 trees as part of the government's plan to prod full 1000000000 saplings this scheme is part of prime minister green legacy initiative to restore the country's landscape to its former glory statistics say less than 4 percent of the country's national forest if that's down from around a 3rd at the end of the 19th century officials hope the book of records will confirm the total allowing ethiopia to grab the tree planting record that india set in 2017. and that's it for now from news

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