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DUBAWA launches Community Verification/Fact-checking Service with IFCN, Meta support Spread the fact flyer

DUBAWA launches Community Verification/Fact-checking Service with IFCN, Meta support

Dubawa March 22, 2023

DUBAWA, a fact-checking arm of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), has launched a community...

False! No evidence to support ritualistic claim against CDC Chairman in Charloe’s murder

Varney Dukuly March 22, 2023

Claim: The family of Justice Gloria Musu-Scott, in a recent statement, quotes the ruling party Chairman Mulbah...

Lessons Sierra Leone can learn from Nigeria’s elections Sirrea Leone x Nigeria

Lessons Sierra Leone can learn from Nigeria’s elections

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay March 20, 2023

Last week, Africa’s largest democracy – Nigeria, went to the polls to elect its leaders. As votes...

Sierra Leone election: How abuse and incendiary language could spark tensions

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay March 16, 2023

Every five years, Sierra Leoneans go to the poll to elect new representatives and leaders across the...

Bengali/Bangla has never been used as Sierra Leone’s official language

Fayia J. Moseray March 15, 2023

Claim: Viral news articles published by “The Indiana Express, Dhaka Tribune” stated that the Bangladesh language named:...

Six common diseases attributable to smoking and what The Gambia is doing about it

Dawda Baldeh March 14, 2023

Smoking, especially tobacco smoking, is a harmful practice that can cause several diseases, such as cancer, heart...

Liberia and Biometric Voters Registration ahead of October’s Elections

Jackson C. Clay Jr. March 12, 2023

Ahead of Liberia’s Presidential and Legislative elections, dated October this year, the country has decided to conduct...

Barrow’s partisan Commission of Inquiry and matters arising

Dawda Baldeh March 7, 2023

President Adama Barrow, on Friday, February 24, 2023, swore in a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the...

False! AME University, AME Zion University Presidents still at post AMEU President Alvin Attah and AMEZU President Benjamin Lartey

False! AME University, AME Zion University Presidents still at post

Jackson C. Clay Jr. March 7, 2023

Claim: A newspaper and a pressure group say AMEU President Alvin Attah and AMEZU President Benjamin Lartey...

Sierra Leone 2023 Election: Tracking the differences between voter and national identity cards

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay March 6, 2023

Sierra Leoneans are no strangers to Identity Cards (IDs), whether Voter IDs or National IDs, citizens have...

DUBAWA launches Community Verification/Fact-checking Service with IFCN, Meta support

False! No evidence to support ritualistic claim against CDC Chairman in Charloe’s murder

Lessons Sierra Leone can learn from Nigeria’s elections

Sierra Leone election: How abuse and incendiary language could spark tensions

Bengali/Bangla has never been used as Sierra Leone’s official language

Six common diseases attributable to smoking and what The Gambia is doing about it

Liberia and Biometric Voters Registration ahead of October’s Elections

Barrow’s partisan Commission of Inquiry and matters arising

False! AME University, AME Zion University Presidents still at post

Sierra Leone 2023 Election: Tracking the differences between voter and national identity cards

Economy

Electricity subsidy removal, heart disease remedy, other claims fact-checked this week

Viral claim about ‘Hisbah chief with police ADC,’ misleading

Contrary to Obi’s claim, FG has not removed electricity subsidy

Does regular sex prevent heart disease?