Mwananchi Communications

In the same year Mwananchi Communications Ltd was acquired[3][4] by the Nation Media Group[5][6] (NMG),[7] which is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

[10] It is part of the Nation Media Group, a publicly listed company, quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

Having registered The Citizen with Tanzania Information Services (Maelezo) on 2 March 2001, the paper was only fully launched and published on 16 September 2004, to become the fifth English daily newspaper in the market.

In 2020 it was ordered by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority to suspend the online publication of Mwananchi for six months and pay a fine of 5 million shilling for publishing "misleading information that caused confusion in the community".

[13] The suspension followed the publication of a social media clip by The Citizen, which highlighted increasing cases of abductions and disappearances in Tanzania.