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40 African journalists and researchers benefit from CJID, DUBAWA Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship

The Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) and DUBAWA have commenced training for forty journalists and researchers across Africa. The 40 fellows will...

Fact-check: Did Ghana miss November 1 IMF timeline?

Government has been insistingq in the last few days that it had not missed a November 1 IMF timeline for the fulfillment of conditions to...

Fact Check- News broadcast claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and NATO recirculates

BBC News did not air a segment claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A clip...

Samson’s Take: Checking and publishing fact – that’s basic journalism

I must sound like a broken record on this subject. But we must keep talking, educating and debating until we get rid of the...

Fact check: An ex-CIA agent did not confess to infecting Bob Marley with fatal cancer

The claim is several years old, but a 2019 post to the Instagram page Submit Conspiracy Theories recently gained renewed attention. The page is a place for followers...

Fact-check: Did the NPP promise to build a harbour in Cape Coast?

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said on a Cape Coast-based radio station, Eagle FM, that he never promised to build a harbour in the Central...

Fact-Check: Has President Akufo-Addo signed a Bill Gates coronavirus vaccine pact?

Social media commentary captured in a news publication here claims that Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has committed Ghana to a vaccine pact to receive...

Compulsory coronavirus vaccines in the UK, other rumours fact-checked

We’ve been fact-checking the most widely shared dubious coronavirus claims this week. There’s no mandatory vaccine law in UK First, we’ve looked at a widely shared...

Fact check: Govt accused of lying to Ghanaians, find out what it is

On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the...