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Twitter rescue: Red Cross’ iVolunteer saves lives

By KENFREY KIBERENGE

For a long time now, Kenyan authorities have been agonising how to curb the spread of negative ethnicity through social media. Practically speaking, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission has done more talking than action in their pledge to arrest the hate speech fanned mainly by young Kenyans on Twitter and Facebook.

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