28 Apr 2021
12 Mar 2021
- 12.3.21
- Evarist Chahali
- No comments
27 Oct 2020
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirm widespread disruption to social media and online communication platforms via multiple internet providers in Tanzania as of Tuesday 27 October 2020. The incident comes on the eve of Tanzania’s presidential and national assembly elections and the service outages are ongoing at the time of writing.
Real-time metrics show that Twitter, WhatsApp, backend servers for Instagram and some Google services including GMail and Translate are generally or partially unavailable via Tanzania’s leading network operators Vodacom, Airtel, Tigo, Halotel and ZanTel. Meanwhile, data indicate a more generalized disruption of services on state-owned operator TTCL, the Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation. Findings are drawn from an initial set of NetBlocks Web Probe observations from 800 observation points. Twitter Inc. has also subsequently confirmed throttling of its services in Tanzania.
Authorities have not issued a statement on the disruptions as of Tuesday afternoon. A week earlier, the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority issued operators with a directive to suspend bulk SMS and telephony services during the election period. However, the directive does not specifically cover internet communications and relevant regulatory frameworks remain unclear.
The incident comes amid heightened concerns over election transparency and follows claims from the opposition over state interference with the accreditation process for electoral observers.
Breaking incident: article will be updated as information is processed
Methodology
This report follows the Election Pathfinder Rapid Response methodology which defines a set of core principles, workflows and benchmarks for network measurement and evaluation during elections and referenda.
Internet performance and service reachability are determined via NetBlocks web probe privacy-preserving analytics. Each measurement consists of latency round trip time, outage type and autonomous system number aggregated in real-time to assess service availability and latency in a given country. Network providers and locations enumerated as vantage point pairs. The root cause of a service outage may be additionally corroborated by means of traffic analysis and manual testing as detailed in the report.
Katika vipengele hivyo 13 ni kauli zenye mrengo wa ushindi kwa mgombea aliyepo madarakani. Kwa muktadha wa Tanzania, vipengele hivi hapa chini vinamhusu Rais John Magufuli wa chama tawala CCM anayechuana vikali na mpinzani wake mkuu, Tundu Lissu wa Chadema.
13 Oct 2020
19 May 2020
- 19.5.20
- Evarist Chahali
- No comments
1 May 2020
Kituo cha runinga cha NTV cha nchini Kenya kiliripoti jana jioni kwamba idadi ya vifo vya korona jijini Dar es Salaam pekee kwa jana vilikuwa 50. Kutokana na unyeti wa maradhi haya, yayunkinika kuamini taarifa hiyo kwa sababu sio rahisi kwa chombo cha habari cha kitaifa kama hicho kutoa taarifa nzito kama hiyo bila kujiridhisha.
29 Apr 2020
- 29.4.20
- Evarist Chahali
- Coronavirus, Magufuli, TANZANIA
- No comments
Shaka imetanda nchini Tanzania kufuatia vifo vya watu 11 mashuhuru ndani ya wiki moja yaliyopita. Muda mfupi kabla ya kuandika chapisho hili, imetangazwa kuwa Mbunge wa Sumve (CCM) Richard Ndassa amefariki.
Kifo hicho ni ni mlolongo wa vifo vya watu maarufu nchini humo ambapo Jumatano iliyopita aliyekuwa Jaji Mkuu, Agustino Ramadhan alifariki.
Kabla ya hapo, Jaji Mkuu Mstaafu wa Zanzibar Ali Haji Pandu alifariki Jumanne siku moja kabla.
Jumapili usiku, Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Mtwara Evod Mmanda alifariki,
na siku hiyo hiyo, Mkurugenzi wa zamani wa CTI, Hussein Kamote alifariki pia jijini Dar es Salaam.
Jumanne, Jaji Mstaafu Musa Kwikima alifariki, na siku moja baadaye Afisa mwandamizi wa Idara ya Uhamiaji mkoani Kagera, Pendo Buteghe alifariki.
Watu wengine maarufu waliofariki ni Ben Lowassa - mdogo wake Edward Lowassa, Mbunge wa zamani Abdulkarim Shah na Naibu Meya wa Morogoro Isihaka Sengo.
Kifo cha Ndassa kinaweza kuhusishwa na tamko la hivi karibuni la Rais John Magufuli kwamba "mvuke unaponya korona," ambapo inaelezwa kuwa chumbani kwa marehemu Ndassa kulikutwa vifaa vya kujifukizia.
Taarifa kutoka kwa wananchi mbalimbali zinaeleza kuwa wamefiwa na ndugu,jamaa na marafiki zao ambao wamezikwa na mamlaka husika lakini hali hiyo haijionyeshi kwenye takwimu za serikali kuhusu idadi vifo.
Leo, baada ya siku kadhaa, Waziri Mkuu Kassim Majaliwa ametangaza kuwa
Na haya yote yanajiri huku leo ni siku ya 33 tangu Rais Magufuli alipoondoka Dodoma na kwenda kijijini kwake Chato mnamo Machi 28 mwaka huu.
Awali leo, kiongozi mkuu wa Upinzani Bungeni na mwenyekiti wa Taifa wa Chadema, Freemani Mbowe, aliongea masuala kadhaa kuhusiana na janga la korona huku akiitaka serikali kuchukua hatua stahili.
Pia jana, kada maarufu wa CCM, Wakili Albert Msando alijitokeza hadharani kueleza kuwa hali nchini Tanzania ni mbaya kuhusiana na ugonjwa wa korona, kauli iliyotafsiriwa kuwa ni uthibitisho wa hali halisi ilivyo japo serikali imekuwa ikificha ukweli huo.
31 Mar 2020
- 31.3.20
- Evarist Chahali
- Coronavirus, Magufuli
- No comments
Huenda kuna watakaosema wakati huu ambapo nchi na dunia ipo kwenye kipindi kigumu kutokana na janga la krona, si muda mwafaka wa kutupiana lawama. Lakini vipi kama lawama hizo zinaweza kusaidia kuleta mabadiliko chanya katika jitihada za kukabiliana na janga hilo?
"Ukimwi unaua. Malaria inaua. Ajali zinaua... Tusitishane... Nendeni mkalime..."
~ @MagufuliJP, Machi 22, 2020 pic.twitter.com/cZ5i2Iqvur
— Evarist Chahali (@Chahali) March 23, 2020
RAIS MAGUFULI: TUSITISHANE KUHUSU #COVID19 TUCHAPE KAZI
> Amesema tusitishane kwani hakuna ripoti ya kifo cha #Covid19 nchini> Amesema hatuwezi kusalimu amri kwa ugonjwa huu wa #Covid19 na tukashindwa kuendeleza uchumi wetuZaidi, soma https://t.co/sR1fQczhkp
— Jifunze Kiswahili (@JifunzeSwahili) March 22, 2020
22 Mar 2020
- 22.3.20
- Evarist Chahali
- Coronavirus, COVID-19, Magufuli
- No comments