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Kenya: Using SMS to spread rumours

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Politics, Technology, War & Conflict

What An African Woman Thinks writes about negative uses of SMS in Kenya [1]: “Regarding the escalating violence in Kenya, the ICRC spokesman in the country, one Bernard Barret is quoted as saying that rumours are being spread by mobile phone text messages predicting imminent attacks by one group or another and that this is heightening tensions.”