Every weekday morning, from 10 to 11 a.m., Abdullahi Mire hosts a radio show for the residents of Dadaab. His studio sits inside a converted shipping container, once used by the UN to deliver supplies to this sprawling network of three refugee camps in northeastern Kenya.

The 32-year-old community organizer, activist and writer is using his platform on Radio Gargar — the settlement’s only local station — to battle a surge of misinformation surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. 

He tells his listeners “don’t panic,” provides them with regular updates and brings on experts to dispel the myths around the virus. His voice has become so well known that people refer to him as the “Corona Guy.”

To date, Kenya has recorded just 2,862 cases of Covid-19 and 85 deaths. Largely cut off from the rest of the country, Dadaab — home to more than 217,000 people and one of the largest settlements of its kind in the world — looked like it had been spared.