Sierra Leone

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...

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:...

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...

Swarming photo of football fans has no connection with Samura Kamara’s entry into Freetown

Fayia J. Moseray March 2, 2023

Claim: A known Sierra Leonean social media activist, Sheka Forna, posted a photo claiming to be scenes...

False! No fatality recorded from Bo Stadium incident Fatima Bio

False! No fatality recorded from Bo Stadium incident

Foday Moriba Conteh February 28, 2023

Claim: An online news platform, Theorganiser.net, claims that Bo Stadium collapsed and killed some school girls. Verdict:...

How “Void Votes” could decide 2023 election in Sierra Leone

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay February 21, 2023

There will be 3,374,358 people voting in the general election this June, the highest since Sierra Leone...

Explainer – Celebrating victory in the ‘war’ for 30% quota for women

Fayia J. Moseray February 15, 2023

‘The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.’ ...

Dealing with fake press releases for the media in Sierra Leone

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay February 14, 2023

Fake press releases are becoming frequent in Sierra Leone. Depending on the number of events happening in...

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

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

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

Swarming photo of football fans has no connection with Samura Kamara’s entry into Freetown

False! No fatality recorded from Bo Stadium incident

How “Void Votes” could decide 2023 election in Sierra Leone

Explainer – Celebrating victory in the ‘war’ for 30% quota for women

Dealing with fake press releases for the media in Sierra Leone

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Viral video of “persecuted Christians” in Nigeria, misleading

FALSE! Ivory Coast’s president did not comment on Nigeria’s security

Viral ‘missile-like’ light seen in Sokoto, Kebbi, likely meteor activity

Video of terrorists flogging Christians, misleading