Ethiopia restores internet to western Oromia after 3-month blackout

South Africa impose jail term for COVID-19 fake news

Facebook to help combat coronavirus fake news in Nigeria

Kenya arrests coronavirus fake news peddler

UNESCO bemoans misinformation amid coronavirus pandemic

African governments battle coronavirus fake news

Journalists in Uganda demand colleague’s freedom

Media freedoms in Somalia

US embassy calls out fake news over Nigeria pastor’s visa

Nigeria army arrests journalist, Burundi jails journalists

Ethiopia ombudsman decries info blackout

AP racist photo, BBC’s Kobe – LeBron mix-up

Internet outage in Togo

Beninese radio station fires all employees after suspension

Burundi arrest journalist over corruption report

Ghana remembers slain anti-corruption investigator

Cameraman assaulted in Nigeria

Ethiopian journalists associational dreams

Journalists detained in Uganda and Malawi

Western Ethiopia internet cut, Sudan bans pro-Bashir press

Internet access restored to western Oromia in Ethiopia

Internet connectivity has been restored to a part of Ethiopia’s Oromia region which has been without connection for about three months.

South Africa enacts fake news regulation

The new regulations for the Disaster Management Act gazetted on Wednesday has stipulated those who spread fake news about the coronavirus can be fined or serve a six month prison sentence.

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Kenya arrest over coronavirus fake news

Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations announced on Sunday the arrest of a 23-year-old accused of peddling coronavirus related fake news.

Combating coronavirus fake news

“I would like to applaud the capability of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases for having acted very quickly and swiftly informing the Minister who in turn informed me,” the words of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa.

Governments continue to provide timely information via official channels in order to combat the spread of fake news especially on social media.