The Big 5 Daily: Tanzania Shuts Down Blogs, Yahoo Messenger, 10 Girls Selected In Kenya For Glogal Technovation Challenge and Publiseer

Seems African leaders are not taking it easy with Digital platforms. Few days back, we reported that Kenya and Uganda introduced some restrictions regarding the usage of social media. Now, Tanzania has followed suit. So we begin The Big 5 today from Tanzania


Tanzania has ordered all unregistered bloggers  and online forums to suspend their websites immediately or face criminal prosecution, as critics accuse the government of tightening control of internet content.


While Tanzanian government is busy chasing bloggers around, Ten Kenyan girls’ teams have been selected for the 2018 Global Technovation Challenge semi-finals. They were drawn from secondary schools across the country, with more than 80 girls’ teams making submissions to this year’s competition.


After 20 years of existence, a messenger app that connect friends, family and random people from all over the world, “Yahoo Messenger” will bid farewell to its users in July. See full story here.


Also, Nigeria’s digital publishing platform, Publiseer has been named one of the ‘Most Needed in the Region’ at the 2018 African Entrepreneurship Award hosted by BMCE Bank of Africa.


The largest African tech ecosystem accelerator in the world, AfricArena has started receiving applications  from start-ups with a number of innovation challenges for ahead of its Cape Town-based AfricArena conference, which will take place in November 2018.

 

Thats’ all Folks.

Have a super exciting day!

 

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