A comment on Twitter says that "fake news" might at times be the result of miscommunication:

Maria Sarungi-Tsehai, a communications expert from Tanzania, spoke to the BBC's Anne Soy about the climate of fear among the journalist community.

Listen to what she had to say below:

Joseph Mucheru, Kenya's cabinet secretary for Information, Communications and Technology, gives an example of when fake news impacts on the real world...

Joseph Mucheru, the cabinet secretary for Kenya's Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology, is now on stage.

He used to be Google's head in sub-Saharan Africa, so he can definitely share some insights on fake news.

Nanjala Nyabola, author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics, issues a call to newspapers and broadcasters:

An audience member at the BBC's Beyond 'Fake News' conference in Kenya has been sharing his wisdom:

Thousands of commuters in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are stranded after public buses withdrew from the roads following a government warning over implementing tough traffic rules.

The laws, which require buses to install seat belts and devices to limit their speed, among other things, have been regularly flouted.

Authorities have said they will impose penalties to offenders.

Commuters have been using trains, motorcycle taxis and carpooling to get to work.

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Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte has said he expects Khalifa Haftar, the powerful military commander from the east of Libya, to attend a conference aimed at stabilising the troubled North African country.

Gen Haftar, who is head of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), is seen as the main rival to the UN-backed administration in Tripoli.

Italy is hosting the conference in the Sicilian city of Palermo.

If Gen Haftar does attend, it will be his first meeting with Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj since the two agreed to a ceasefire and election in May.

Libya has experienced deep divisions and internal fighting since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted following the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011.

An interesting comment from author Nanjala Nyabola:

Nanjala Nyabola, author of the soon-to-be published book Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics, has been sharing her thoughts in Nairobi:

Zimbabwe's government has denied claims by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa that its agents tried to kidnap him on Saturday.

A statement from the ministry of information blamed Mr Chamisa's team for the incident, saying it had been harassing "ordinary citizens".

A video posted online showed a scuffle between several men near a car before it speeds away. A voice can be heard saying it was an attempt to kidnap Mr Chamisa.

"This would be appear to be a road rage incident," the statement says.

BBC Africa's Yemisi Adegoke lets us know:

We actually have two Beyond 'Fake News' conferences today: one in Nairobi, and one in Delhi.

If you want to hear what they are up to in India, you can follow our colleagues on @BBCIndia:

The remaining four hostages kidnapped last week in a school in Cameroon's North-West region capital of Bamenda have been released, journalist Peter Tah reports:

More than 80 people, majority of them students at Bamenda's Presbyterian Secondary School, were taken on 4 October by gunmen.

The government has accused separatists in the English-speaking region of being behind the kidnapping.

The Anglophone separatists have, however, denied they were involved.

The secessionist movement took up arms last year to demand independence for the North-West and South-West regions - the two English-speaking regions in a country where French is the most widely spoken official language.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has officially deployed the army to buy and collect all cashew nuts from farmers in the southern region of the country after rejecting offers from 13 firms to buy the cash crop.

On Saturday, Mr Magufuli accused private traders of attempting to rip off thousands of farmers and ordered them to increase their price offers to around $1.3 (£1; €1.15) per kilogram (2.2 pounds).

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BBC research found that national identity was less of a factor in the spread of fake news in Africa than it was in India.

In Kenya, scams related to money and technology were a stronger driving force, contributing to around a third of fake news stories shared on Whatsapp, while fake stories relating to terrorism and the army were widely shared in Nigeria.

In both countries, health scares were prominent among widely-shared fake news stories, and many news consumers visited both credible and fake news sources without distinguishing between them.

The researchers spent hundreds of hours with 80 participants across the three countries, interviewing them at home about their media consumption as well as examining how they shared information via Whatsapp and Facebook during a seven-day period.

They also conducted an extensive analysis of how fake news spreads on Twitter and Facebook in India.

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