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Kenya drops in global press freedom index

A man stares at TV sets pinned on a wall during the media shutdown in March 2018. [File, Standard]

Kenya has dropped four places in the World Press Freedom Index undoing the gains made in previous years in realising media freedom as per the dictates of Kenyan constitution.

A 2019 study published in a website known as ‘Reporters Without Borders’ paints a gloomy picture of how Kenyan media freedom has been deteriorating in the past 12 months.

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