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Cashew nut traders in Tanzania have until 16:00 (13:00 GMT) today to start buying the cash crop at prices set by the government or it will deploy the army to purchase the crop for the state.

On Saturday, President John 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).

Farmers have for weeks been refusing to sell their harvests, arguing that the private traders' offers are too low.

Mr Magufuli sacked both the agriculture and trade ministers over their handling of the row.

He said he is working to ensure thousands of farmers get a fair price for their cashew nuts and also so that the country does not miss out on vital export earnings.

Cashew nut exports are a major foreign-currency earner for Tanzania.

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Welcome to all those who have just joined us - and those who have been keeping up with events at the conference in Nairobi.

We are going to be staying with our coverage of the Beyond Fake News conference in Kenya - but we will now also be bringing you the top stories from around the continent as well.

So keep checking back for all the latest throughout the day.

That certainly seems to be the message coming through from our panelists this morning:

How can businesses avoid being caught up in the fake news bubble? Lorna Irungu, chief executive of Gina-Din Group, has a bit of advice:

Commerce plays dirty in Kenya: businesses use viral campaigns to discredit their competition, and young entrepreneurs can fall victim to get-rich-quick schemes.

So, what role does the PR industry play in spreading disinformation? And have the ethics of bloggers left us in a difficult quandary - where business have no right of reply to allegations spread online?

BBC Africa Business editor Larry Madowo is currently chatting to some people who hope to be answering these questions on stage in Nairobi, and our reporter Yemisi Adegoke is tweeting from the room:

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Many people overestimate their ability to spot "fake news", BBC research found when speaking to social media users in Nigeria and Kenya.

Although many people understand the consequences of sharing misleading stories, it is often only on a conceptual level, it shows.

Researchers also found that the link between disinformation and things like electoral manipulation and democracy is too abstract for users to grasp.

Emotions trump reason when it comes to sharing news, the team found.

"After watching the news I was touched, so I had to post it," said one interviewee in Nigeria.

Nigeria and Kenya have lower levels of digital literacy say researchers, especially in rural areas, where Facebook may be seen as synonymous with the internet and there all things on it may be seen as "true".

But Nigerians and Kenyans do better than Indians when it comes to checking for themselves if a dubious story is true, which they do through search engines like Google or verifying with others in their network, among other things.

The debate on "fake news" in Africa should appreciate the continent's history and the role that rumour and propaganda has played in the culture of its people, veteran Ugandan journalist Charles Obbo has told the BBC's Newsday programme.

He says that the spread of misinformation was used by the weak as way of them to be heard.

Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola also says the current debate is a result of "de-contextualized panic".

Listen to the conversation below:

BBC's Newsday presenter Alan Kasujja met three Nairobi school students to talk about their experience of sorting the real from the fake after taking part in a special workshop.

You can listen to what they said below:

Here is a handy, two-minute explainer:

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My colleague Dickens Olewe wrote this piece about how East African governments are trying to crackdown on "fake news" earlier this year: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in 'anti-fake news campaign'

Jamie Angus, director of the BBC World Service, has told Newsday he believes the "fake news" phenomenon will be around for years to come.

"This is going to be a phenomenon that is going to be with us for the next five to 10 years," he told Alan Kasujja.

But does that mean the battle for truth is lost? Absolutely not, he says - and this is why the World Service has put together the Beyond Fake News season.

"The World Service is trying to do something concrete on the ground," he explained.

Maria Sarungi Tsehai, a communications expert and founder of #ChangeTanzania, external, is at the conference:

This from Citizen TV's Waihiga Mwaura, who is following the conference in Nairobi:

Apart from the unveiling of the findings of a BBC research on fake news in Kenya, Nigeria and India at the event, several speakers and panels have also been lined up for today's conference to discuss the emerging issues around "fake news".

Here are the panels to look out for:

• The East African media landscape: Fakes and Trust from 10:00 local (07:00 GMT)
• Lies and disparagement as a business models from 11:25 local (08:25 GMT)
• Elections: How is 'fake news' impacting democracy across Africa? From 13:45 local (10:45 GMT)
• What can be done to help audiences sort fact from fiction? From 15:40 local (12:40 GMT)

So stay with us, because we'll be sharing the best bits from the panels here throughout the morning.

Want to know a bit more? Here, we break down five stories blamed for spreading fear, confusion and even sparking ethnic violence over a 12 month period.