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Facebook takes on Zoom with new video features

Facebook has a long history of expanding its features to emulate major competitors. Now it's taking on platform-of-the-moment Zoom (ZM). The tech giant is creating a new video...

Two billion people now use WhatsApp

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp said on Wednesday it has amassed 2 billion users, becoming the second social media platform in the world to hit...

Safer Internet Day: Facebook partners African groups for a better Internet

Facebook is partnering with nine non-profit organisations and government agencies throughout sub-Saharan Africa to raise awareness about Internet safety. That campaign also includes security for...

South Africa joins Facebook Amber Alerts programme

South Africa has become the first country in Africa to join to the Facebook Amber Alerts programme. This follows the announcement of a partnership between...

Benin jails investigative journalist over Facebook post

Benin sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for comments he posted on social media. Ignace Sossou quoted on his Facebook...

Summit on social media and fake news opens in Accra

The 2019 West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards opened in Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday. Organized by the Media Foundation for West Africa, it...

Facebook to open centre in Lagos to support small businesses

Facebook in partnership with Teleperformance, has announced the opening of its first Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos, Nigeria, which will provide...

Facebook workers listened to Messenger conversations

Hundreds of workers were paid to transcribe voice recordings of Facebook users, it has emerged. Facebook is the latest company to confirm it has used...

Ugandan academic exposes breasts in protest at jail term

A Ugandan academic will be spending 18 months in prison after a court sentenced her over some of her comments on Facebook about President...

Why Facebook is ‘to be fined $5 billion’

Tech giant Facebook is facing an impending fine of $5 billion from US regulators. The US regulators have approved a record $5bn fine on Facebook...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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