Fake news coursing via web-based networking media claiming the death of Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has expanded strain in the nation confronting instability after refusal of active president to venture down.
The news connected to a fake news site and conveyed generally by web journals in Nigeria among others on Wednesday night was broadly shared via web-based networking media raising doubts particularly after news broke that Gambia's armed force boss had vowed bolster for President Yahya Jammeh.
It took endeavors from a few colleagues columnists to impugn the fake news which had flowed generally.
"Mr Barrow and the whole individuals from the coalition are all here and continuing on ahead. Gambians ought to overlook this bits of gossip and proceed with their arrangements to initiate their leader on January 19," Gambian neighborhood media JollofNews cites an anonymous individual from the resistance.
Gambian writer Fatu Camara additionally tweeted saying: "News circling that President Elect Barrow is murdered is fake. Cart is well and safe, he completed a meeting a while prior".
She however said there were reports that individuals from the coalition gathering were emptying to safe houses because of dangers by the powers.
Adama Barrow is the third essential identity to have been accounted for dead by a fake news site in three months after Africa's wealthiest man Aliko Dangote and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir.
The Nigerian business person in September a year ago reported via web-based networking media that he was alive, while the South Sudanese pioneer drove around the capital Juba to demonstrate to general society that he is alive.
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