In a courtroom halfway around the world from the hills of Rwanda, a Rwandan man stood and listened as the word he had run from for years finally caught him. He was convicted not of genocide, and not of murder, but of something quieter and more common: false testimony. He had lied under oath about who he was. He had hidden the past behind a carefully assembled story, perhaps a common name, a new accent, a pleasant smile meant to signal a harmless refugee who only wanted peace. According to The New Times, the conviction came decades after the 1994…

In a spacious hall in Abuja, where journalists, media executives and policymakers had gathered under the banner of the Nigerian Press Council, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, offered a message that was both a reassurance and a warning. The occasion was the National Summit on Fake News and Excellence in Media Leadership Awards 2026, a gathering designed to confront one of the most complicated challenges of the digital age: the rapid spread of false information and its impact on public life. But as the summit opened, Idris made it clear that the battle against fake news…