Tanzania’s Government Finally Speaks – But Only After CNN Dropped the Bomb

Today, at exactly the moment the world started asking uncomfortable questions in louder voices, the Tanzanian government discovered the “reply” button.

Eleven minutes ago, Larry Madowo (yes, the same Kenyan journalist who has been calmly torching timelines with receipts) posted a polite but devastating screenshot: the Tanzanian Ministry of Information’s public notice dated today, 21 November 2025.

Let me translate the bureaucratic Swahili into plain English for you:

“We just saw that CNN documentary you’ve all been talking about for three weeks.

We are currently ‘reviewing and verifying’ it.

Sit tight. Official statement loading…”

In other words: “We were hoping nobody would notice the bodies. CNN noticed. Now we need a minute.”

The timing is comedy gold if it wasn’t so tragic.

For 23 days, families have been posting photos of missing sons and daughters.

For 23 days, citizen videos of police and plain-clothes gunmen executing unarmed youth have circulated on WhatsApp groups.

For 23 days, morgues in Mwanza, Arusha and Dar es Salaam quietly turned away grieving parents with the same line: “We are not authorized to release bodies or information.”

And for 23 days, the government’s response was… absolute silence.

No press conference.

No list of the dead.

No explanation for why satellite images show fresh mass graves north of the capital.

Nothing.

Then CNN, led by a Kenyan with a calm voice and zero chill, drops a 20-minute investigation complete with geolocated videos, forensic analysis, and first-hand accounts.

Suddenly, on Day 24, the Ministry of Information remembers it has a Twitter account and a letterhead.

They should have known they were dealing with a professional.

A Kenyan one, at that 😂

We don’t forget, and we definitely don’t bluff.

This is classic East African sibling energy: Tanzania tried to handle its drama quietly in the corner of the region, hoping nobody would snitch. Then big brother Kenya’s journalist son walked in with a flashlight and a live broadcast.

Now Dar es Salaam is scrambling to “verify” footage that half the continent has already watched with their own eyes.

Look, we’ve seen this script before:

Phase 1: Total blackout and denial

Phase 2: “We are investigating”

Phase 3: “Actually those dead people attacked the police first”

Phase 4: Arrest the journalists asking questions

The statement today is Phase 2 in real time.

But here’s the thing the government seems to have forgotten:

In 2025, you don’t control the narrative by switching off the internet for three weeks.

You control it by telling the truth on Day 1.

Every hour they spend “reviewing and verifying” what the entire world has already seen is another hour they admit, without words, that the CNN documentary is accurate.

Because if it wasn’t, the statement would have been two lines:

“This report is fake. Here is the evidence.”

Instead, we got a whole letterhead and a signature from the Chief Government Spokesman promising thoughts and prayers “upon completion of this assessment.”

My Tanzanian brothers and sisters, especially the youth who took to the streets for a fair vote:

Your pain is not a documentary.

Your dead are not “content to be verified.”

Your grief is not a public-relations problem to be managed.

And to the government in Dodoma:

You picked the wrong Kenyan to play silence games with.

Hawataamini.

They really thought we’d let this slide.

We see you.

The region sees you.

The world sees you.

And Larry?

Keep that red notification light on.

They’re just getting started.

Mungu ibariki Tanzania. Mungu ibariki Afrika.

But right now, someone needs to bless the truth — because it’s the only thing still standing after all the bullets and the lies.

Share this if you’re tired of governments treating their citizens like an inconvenience.

The comment section is open. Speak.