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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...

WhatsApp hit by global outage, content downloads affected

Popular messenger platform WhatsApp is facing a major challenge globally with users on Wednesday unable to make media downloads. Users in the United Kingdom, Europe...

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