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  By Staff Reporters, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi Noam Chomsky, the famous American linguist, coined an old media effect theory “the CNN effect” or “CNNization of the news.” In the thesis, Chomsky uncovers the problem of CNN- manipulation, misinformation and disinformation . Not so miles away from Chomsky’s sphere, comes a business mogul-turned-politician, Donald Trump, with similar discontent on the CNN’s news sociology. Trump’s Fake News typology has now complemented Chomsky theory with a bang but unveiling similar sentiments. The two native Americans’ anger with CNN is straight, clear and vertical-the news conglomerate has lost its much acclaimed news touch to focus on biased reporting, often times, engulfed in stories lacking the per-liquisite contextual background on matters they try to extrapolate. Not always so but the Chomsky-Trump prophesy is increasingly trending into a reality-CNN is progressively more accused all over the world, particularly among devel

By Victor Odundo Owuor,   A recent World Bank report showed that Somalia has one of the most active mobile money markets in the world, outpacing most other countries in Africa. It’s even superseded the use of cash in the country of 14 million people. Victor Owuor asked Tim Kelly, an information and communications technology policy specialist at the World Bank and the report’s author, to explain the findings and what they mean for the country. Why is mobile money so successful in Somalia? Mobile money initially started as a simple exchange of airtime credit between users. Over ten years ago, mobile network operators formalised this by offering mobile money services. It was quickly perceived as a convenient and safe way of making transactions and storing money. Unlike Kenya’s famous Mpesa mobile money transfer services, Somalia’s transfers are mainly available in US dollars. Though the companies offering mobile money services are mobile network operators

2018-10-13 20:04 Mohammed Dewji (File: AFP)     Twenty people have been arrested as police press a manhunt for Africa's youngest billionaire who was kidnapped in Dar es Salaam two days ago, a minister said on Saturday.   Mohammed Dewji, who at 43 is Africa's youngest billionaire, was snatched by gunmen as he entered a hotel gym in Tanzania's economic capital on Thursday morning. "Up until now, 20 people have been arrested," Interior Minister Kangi Lugola told reporters, without giving any detail on their identities. "Security forces are working day and night" to find him. Officials have implicated the involvement of foreigners, saying he was taken by "whites." Dewji is chief executive of the MeTL Group which operates in some 10 countries and has interests in agriculture, insu