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Uganda: Authorities block access to social networks two days before general elections

January 13, 2021 Steven Addamah 0

This decision comes at the very end of a tense campaign for the presidential and legislative elections. The elections are scheduled to take place this […]

Election in Uganda: Dozens of officials Facebook and Instagram accounts closed for influencing the public debate

January 12, 2021 Steven Addamah 0

Facebook talks about a network of coordinated accounts aimed at influencing the public debate ahead of the general elections on Thursday 14 January. According to […]

Three networks of fake accounts involved in interference activities in Africa dismantled by Facebook

December 17, 2020 Geraldine Boechat 0

Facebook announced Tuesday that it had dismantled three networks of fake accounts involved in interference activities in Africa. These are two Russian networks and a […]

The most giant submarine cable to improve Africa’s internet connection

May 18, 2020 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

A cable of 37,000 km around the African continent. It is a gigantic project announced this week by a consortium of 8 companies: the construction […]

Uganda: MPs vote to maintain unpopular social media tax

October 3, 2018 Steven Addamah 0

Lawmakers in Uganda have voted to maintain a controversial tax law expected to be implemented later this year. The ruling National Resistance Movement, NRM, dominating […]

Ugandan parliament approves Mobile Money & social media tax bill

May 31, 2018 Steven Addamah 0

Uganda’s parliament on Wednesday approved a law that imposes new taxes on social media services and mobile money transactions. Human rights activists and critics of […]

DR Congo orders internet slowdown for social media

August 8, 2017 Geraldine Boechat 0

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered telecom companies to slowdown internet capacity for social media contents such as images and videos. “In […]

Ethiopia shuts down internet to prevent exam leaks

June 1, 2017 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

The Ethiopian government has announced a total internet shutdown as means of blocking the leakage of papers for the country’s grade 10 examinations. About 1.2 […]

Rwanda: Nude photos of female presidential candidate leaked

May 11, 2017 Emmanuel Agbenonwossi 0

Social media in Rwanda was flooded this week with nude pictures believed to be Diane Shima Rwigara, a 35-year-old businesswoman who announced her intention to […]

Zambia: police teargased opposition leader’s house in a midnight raid

April 11, 2017 Steven Addamah 0

The house of Hakainde Hichilema, the Zambian opposition leader whose party lost the August general election to Edgar Lungu, was attacked by security forces early […]

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