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Tanzania blocks X after police account hacked

Screengrab of Tanzania Police Account.

Tanzanians were blocked from social media platform X on Wednesday after a police account was hacked and used to falsely announce the president's death, internet watchdog NetBlocks said.

The social media shutdown comes amid the disappearance of activists Boniface Mwangi of Kenya and Agather Atuhaire of Uganda following their arrest by Tanzanian police earlier this week.

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