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Tanzania imetajwa kushuka nafasi saba na kuorodheshwa kwenye mataifa yenye matatizo ya kidemokrasia duniani,
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Tanzania has lost its ranking as the most free democracy in the region to Kenya, and its reputation is now seen as rivalling politically hotspots around the world, a new report shows.
Dar has dropped by seven places over the last one year, scoring 45 aggregate score points as opposed to 52 points in the previous study which had ranked it better of all the six members of the East Africa Community (EAC).
But the ‘Freedom in the World Report 2019’ released Friday shows that Kenya – with a score of 48 points, is now the leader in political freedom in EAC. Kenya scored the same points in the 2018 report.
According to the report, Burundi (18 points) is the least politically free, followed by Rwanda (23) and Uganda (37). However, despite the different scores, Tanzania and Kenya fall under the “partly free” democracies category in the study. The other categories are “Free” and “Not Free”, with Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda all falling in the not free category.
Conducted by ‘Freedom House’ every year, the study interestingly placed Tanzania on its “top 10 watch list countries” for 2019. Freedom House is a US-based independent watchdog organisation dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world.
Other than Tanzania, the other countries on the watch-list include Armenia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Iraq, Poland and Sri Lanka. Freedom House says countries on the watch list are those that experienced developments that affected their democratic trajectory.
Tanzania loses top freedom rank to Kenya
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Tanzania has lost its ranking as the most free democracy in the region to Kenya, and its reputation is now seen as rivalling politically hotspots around the world, a new report shows.
Dar has dropped by seven places over the last one year, scoring 45 aggregate score points as opposed to 52 points in the previous study which had ranked it better of all the six members of the East Africa Community (EAC).
But the ‘Freedom in the World Report 2019’ released Friday shows that Kenya – with a score of 48 points, is now the leader in political freedom in EAC. Kenya scored the same points in the 2018 report.
According to the report, Burundi (18 points) is the least politically free, followed by Rwanda (23) and Uganda (37). However, despite the different scores, Tanzania and Kenya fall under the “partly free” democracies category in the study. The other categories are “Free” and “Not Free”, with Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda all falling in the not free category.
Conducted by ‘Freedom House’ every year, the study interestingly placed Tanzania on its “top 10 watch list countries” for 2019. Freedom House is a US-based independent watchdog organisation dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world.
Other than Tanzania, the other countries on the watch-list include Armenia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Iraq, Poland and Sri Lanka. Freedom House says countries on the watch list are those that experienced developments that affected their democratic trajectory.
Tanzania loses top freedom rank to Kenya