Sierra Leone

Living in the dark and paying for it; the tale of Sierra Leone’s paralytic power supply Transformer

Living in the dark and paying for it; the tale of Sierra Leone’s paralytic power supply

Fayia J. Moseray March 29, 2023

Introduction The Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) requires that countries across the globe should have “affordable, reliable,...

President Bio commissioned a new terminal, not a new airport

Foday Moriba Conteh March 28, 2023

CLAIM: The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, has commissioned a brand New Freetown International Airport...

DUBAWA to train over 500 journalists in West Africa with Google News Initiative support

Dubawa March 27, 2023

DUBAWA is set to train newsrooms in West Africa on digital journalism, verification, and fact-checking skills in...

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:...

Living in the dark and paying for it; the tale of Sierra Leone’s paralytic power supply

President Bio commissioned a new terminal, not a new airport

DUBAWA to train over 500 journalists in West Africa with Google News Initiative support

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

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False! Sierra Leone journalist Sheku Muctarr Kamara, alive

No evidence Liberia’s ambassador to Nigeria has been recalled

Round-Up: Oyo kidnap claims, AI videos, top claims fact-checked last week

False! Viral video of Cristiano Ronaldo, Georgina Rodriguez at Kaaba, deepfake