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Africa's largest network of #CivicTech and #OpenData labs. ExCo member @CodeforAll. Incubating @AfricanCIR | @afriLEAKS | @AfricanDRONEorg | @PesaCheck & more

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🔎 Learn how to navigate today's information landscape as a fact-checker. This introductory course explores the foundational aspects of fact-checking, including ethics, transparency, and practical verification tools and techniques. 🔗 Learn more here: cfa.fyi/AFNSS7I
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‼️ 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
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Faisons le point sur ce que vous avez manqué lors du Global Media Forum 2026, ainsi que sur certaines informations erronées qui ont fait parler d'elles durant cette semaine ! Dans cet épisode de *L’Écho des Faits*, un reportage spécial dans lequel Katharina Lobeck partage les enseignements clés de l'événement. 🎧 Écoutez L’Écho des Faits, présenté par Bilal Taïrou, désormais disponible sur Spotify et SoundCloud. Spotify: cfa.fyi/gloIM8b SoundCloud: cfa.fyi/3k4bDxQ
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From phishing attacks to compromised accounts and insecure file sharing, digital risks can have serious consequences for organisations working on human rights and democracy. This is your opportunity to build the skills you need to stay secure online with @Code4Africa's free Digital Security Essentials training. 👉🏾 Apply by 30 July 2026 (midnight EAT): cfa.fyi/SWyfFSL
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Are you a human rights defender or work for a democracy-focused CSO in 🇪🇹 Ethiopia or 🇸🇸 South Sudan? Join @Code4Africa's free online Digital Security Essentials training and learn how to: 
📌 Protect sensitive information
 📌 Secure communications
 📌Counter digital threats

 📆 Deadline: 30 July 2026: cfa.fyi/SWyfFSL

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🆕 Resource kit for environmental projects in Africa! The Africa Mining Watch Knowledge Toolkit helps identify and investigate harm caused by mining. Use it to explore illegal mining hotspots, understand their environmental and social impacts, and support investigations, research, advocacy, and community action. 🔎 Explore the toolkit: cfa.fyi/x60WUWy
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📢 Nouveau cours disponible ! Vous souhaitez comprendre comment la désinformation se propagent au Sahel ? Inscrivez-vous à la formation pour débutants de l'IMI afin d'apprendre à contrer les faux récits diffusés sur Facebook, X, etc. 🔗 Inscrivez-vous ici : cfa.fyi/GGzuKOf
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⚖️ Women in politics are found to be the easiest targets of coordinated digital attacks across Central and West Africa. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence often intensifies during election periods. Low digital literacy and limited access to smartphones and the internet are prevalent; as a result, these attacks go unnoticed, and only a small number of people have the capacity to identify and stop the spread. 🔎 Uncover the tactics behind the narratives: cfa.fyi/pAftyTv
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📢 Date extended | We're looking for language experts in South Africa! Join the fight against hate speech! Apply for the Lexicon fellowship aimed at combating the spread of hate speech through linguistic expertise and natural language processing. 📆 Applications close on 13 July 🔗 For more details: cfa.fyi/7IaB7w8
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🔎 You can’t stop what you can’t see. Africa Mining Watch uses satellite imagery, AI, and open data to map illegal mining hotspots across West Africa and the Congo Basin. We hosted a mapathon in April 2026 to test out the tools and refine the project. The data and research collected at the mapathon are now available for public use. 💡 Explore the toolkit for datasets, story angles, and evidence trails: cfa.fyi/x60WUWy
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Êtes-vous un défenseur des droits humains basé au Tchad, au Bénin, en Somalie, au Niger, au Soudan, au Cameroun, en Mauritanie, en Guinée, au Mali, au Sénégal, au Togo ou au Burkina Faso ? Rejoignez la formation en ligne et apprenez à : 📌Protéger les informations sensibles 🗓️ 30 Juillet 🔗 cfa.fyi/n574O3v
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‼️ Les campagnes de haine ne se propagent pas par hasard. Elles reposent sur des récits, des réseaux et des dynamiques de plateforme. Ce cours pour débutants vous apprend à identifier les discours de haine, à analyser leur propagation et à comprendre les systèmes à l'origine des préjudices en ligne. 🔗 Inscription ici : cfa.fyi/ZUeolBL
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⚒️ Introducing the AI Toolkit for Fact-Checking.💡 TrustLab's toolkit offers practical guidance to help journalists integrate AI into fact-checking workflows, strengthen research, verify text, images, and online content, and use AI responsibly. 👉🏾 Access it here: cfa.fyi/RR5KYHm
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🎙️ Nouvel épisode de L’Écho des Faits ! Retrouvez les réflexions du GlobalFact avec Mamady Kebe. Thèmes clés : l’essor de l’IA dans la vérification des faits, les nouvelles formes de manipulation de l’information, les défis économiques auxquels sont confrontés les médias de vérification des faits et les perspectives d’avenir pour les vérificateurs de faits africains. À écouter ici! Spotify: cfa.fyi/PxeMyh9 SoundCloud: cfa.fyi/j2DX82C Cette initiative vise à renforcer l’intégrité de l’information au sein des écosystèmes médiatiques – numériques et traditionnels – en Côte d’Ivoire et au Sénégal.
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📢 New course unlocked! Want to understand how false information spreads in the Sahel? Enrol for the IMI beginner course to learn how to identify, investigate and counter false narratives across Facebook, X, WhatsApp and Telegram.  Register now: cfa.fyi/i4x4zyW
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“Drones are basically a cheap way of providing evidence of what’s going on on the ground.” On Land Talks, Johnny Miller shares how @africanDRONEORG is helping communities use drones to monitor land degradation, document climate impacts and build local capacity across Africa. 🎧 Listen to the full Land Talks episode on YouTube: cfa.fyi/XJ1RrD9
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