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Clampdown on journalists in Comoros amid political crisis (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 5, 2019

Journalists in the Comoros are being censored and intimidated amid a continuing political crisis in the wake of the country's presidential election on 24 March.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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