NAIROBI, 13 March. - (ANA) - The sale of Nairobi-based Nation Media Group, East Africa’s largest media house, to Tanzanian business magnate Rostam Azizi has raised concerns about potential political interference in the region’s most influential news outlets.

 

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development this week sold its majority stake in Nation Media to Azizi’s Taarifa Group, ending the Aga Khan IV family’s 66-year stewardship and marking Kenya’s most significant media ownership change in decades.

 

Azizi has pledged to uphold the company’s editorial standards. However, concerns center on his ties to regional leaders and the scale of Nation Media’s operations, which employ hundreds of journalists across television, radio, and print in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. 

 

At stake is the group’s editorial independence and public trust in one of East Africa’s most influential media institutions.   - (ANA) - 

 

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