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A host of professional media organizations have issued a joint statement, demanding an investigation into the violence witnessed in the eastern town of Tambacounda in which one man died on Monday.

Pan-African telecom operators MTN, Orange and Vodacom are vying to enter Ethiopia for the opportunity to serve 105 million population, following progress in the telecom privatization process, TMT Finance reported.

Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has apologised for an altercation with a South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television news crew that was filming an African National Congress rally in the Eastern Cape Province at the weekend, the public broadcaster reported on Monday.

Facebook on Thursday announced the opening a new content review centre in Nairobi, in partnership with Samasource, one of the largest digital employers in East Africa.

Sierra Leone’s First Lady has called for safer use of the internet with the goal of protecting children, particularly the girl child.

Ethio-telecom announced an over $594 million profit in the first half of this Ethiopian fiscal year (July-December 2018), achieving 80 percent of the target.

Cameroonian authorities should immediately investigate an attack on Paul Chouta, a reporter for the privately owned news website Cameroon Web, and ensure that those who assaulted him are swiftly brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday.

Workers of the Morocco-Mauritanian telecommunications company (Mauritel), the largest telephone operator in the country, began an indefinite strike, union sources in the company said Wednesday.

The authorities in Sudan on Tuesday confiscated copies of al-Jareda daily newspaper amidst nationwide protests, demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year rule.

The African Union (AU) has called off the visit of a high-level delegation to Kinshasa on Monday, following another a closed-door meeting over the weekend between Rwandan President Paul Kagame and another official delegation from Kinshasa.