🇨🇮 Claims that France is choosing Côte d’Ivoire’s next president are spreading widely online.
This investigation examines how narratives of foreign interference, political exclusion, and misinformation are shaping public debate ahead of the country's presidential election.
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🔎 Are you passionate about civic data and transparency in South Africa? This is your opportunity to support open-source investigative work.
Apply for the Civic Graph Fellowship, a programme aimed at building open civic data systems that map and verify publicly available information on politically exposed and politically influential persons.
This 3-month fellowship helps strengthen information integrity ahead of South Africa’s 2026 elections through OSINT methods and structured data systems.
📍We’re looking for 7 part-time fellows.
📆 Apply by 28 June 2026
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🌍 Across Africa, influence operations, disinformation campaigns, and coordinated online attacks are putting civic space at risk.
TrustLab's Digital Defense Playbook helps human rights defenders detect, document, and expose these threats.
🔗 Your practical tools for safer civic engagement online start here: cfa.fyi/ypY0x6i
📢 Are you a linguistic expert in South Africa? This is your opportunity to fight hate speech!
Apply for the Lexicon fellowship aimed at combating the spread of hate speech through linguistic expertise and natural language processing.
The fellowship will support the mapping and analysis of weaponised words, phrases, slogans, slang, and slurs associated with hate speech, harmful online narratives, and online violence against women, youth, and minority groups.
📆 Apply by 28 June
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🧐 How can journalists help combat mis- and disinformation in the African news ecosystem?
The @ICFJ, in partnership with the @Wikimedia Foundation, will be breaking down how Wikipedia helps journalists promote reliable information in an age of online mis- and disinformation.
📆 June 25 at 4:00 PM GMT
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When you hear "Germany", what's the very first thing that comes to mind?
If you are from Kenya 🇰🇪, Nigeria 🇳🇬, or 🇿🇦 South Africa, we would like to know your thoughts on Germany.
Help us better understand how people across Africa perceive Germany by sharing your insights.
✍🏾 Take our quick survey to share your thoughts: cfa.fyi/xoBffKP
🗳️ Every election produces numbers. The real question is: can citizens verify them?
Across Africa, gaps in election data transparency from missing polling station results to internet shutdowns make independent verification difficult.
👉🏾 Read more: cfa.fyi/m90MeCV
🤳🏾As audiences increasingly turn to digital news creators for information, what does this mean for journalism?
In his latest @dailymaverick op-ed, Code for Africa deputy CEO @ChrisRoper unpacks insights from the latest CNTI and CfA report.
💡 Read more: cfa.fyi/epzUoiZ
💰 Quick profits, employment opportunities, and visas to work abroad.
Uncovering how fraudulent networks in Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal operate across digital platforms and examining the tactics they use to defraud unsuspecting victims.
👉🏾 More here: cfa.fyi/inuFUCj
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📣 New report: South Africa Indie Info Providers
@Code4Africa, in partnership with #CNTI, explores how independent info providers are reshaping South Africa’s media landscape, amplifying local voices, building trust adapting under pressure.
Read more: cfa.fyi/6WOxrNb
🇧🇫 Claims that Burkina Faso rejected billion-dollar investments, paid off its debt, and defied international lenders.
This investigation uncovers how misleading narratives and fabricated statistics are shaping public perceptions.
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🇪🇹 A false claim is casting Oromos as foreigners in #Ethiopia.
Posts say Oromos “belong in Madagascar”, while others accuse an “Oromo government” of backing killings of Amhara people.
🔗ADDO traced how narratives spread during Ethiopia’s election period: cfa.fyi/OU6Xcp9
🔐 Digital threats can happen to anyone, but you don’t have to face them alone.
TrustLab Helplines provide free, confidential support for people facing online harassment, hacking, surveillance risks, or account compromise.
💡 Learn more: cfa.fyi/7bQZauz
🌍 Journalistes et responsables civiques francophones, renforcez vos compétences en vérification dans les environnements à haut risque.
Cette formation en ligne gratuite aborde la vérification, l'IA et la sécurité numérique.
📆 31 mai !
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💬@HumAngle_ s' investigation begins with a suspicious “journalism summit” in Niamey that journalists say quickly became a platform for pro-junta messaging aimed at Nigeria’s Hausa-speaking north.
Is Nigeria facing an information war in its own language?: cfa.fyi/euAqw2a
🔎 In the age of data, leads are often hidden in plain sight, buried in public records, archives and research databases.
This course @Code4Africa shows you how to find hidden records, track sources, and verify info using digital tools. twp.ai/4hqcNv