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Fact Check: Misleading! Asphaltic overlays in Hohoe were done in 2020

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Claim: A Facebook user posted images claiming that new roads are being constructed in Hohoe township in the Volta Region. Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s findings reveal that the pictures are...

Fact Check: Misleading! World Bank did not commend Akufo-Addo for ‘stronger and better’ banking sector

Business
Claim: The World Bank has commended Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo for strengthening the country’s banking sector, a viral WhatsApp message alleges. Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s Investigations showed that the Bretton...

Fact Check: NDC Manifesto: Mahama’s claims on budget deficit, COCOBOD false

Elections
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) unveiled its manifesto on Saturday, August 24, 2024, presenting a detailed strategy aimed at revitalizing Ghana’s economy, reducing economic...

Fact Check: NDC Manifesto: Claim food inflation currently stands at 50% false

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Claim: The Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi, Yusif Sulemana, has claimed that Ghana’s food inflation currently stands at 50%.  Verdict: False. Data from the Ghana Statistical Service...

Fact Check: Misleading! Ghana’s industrial sub-sector did not collapse in 2016

Business
Claim: Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2024 flagbearer of Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), says industrial growth in the country had collapsed due to erratic power...

100 Days to Elections Campaign Launch: Fact-Check before bringing things out – Political Analyst to media

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A political analyst and lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Thomas Buabeng, has urged media across the country to ensure they do fact-checking...

Six Kamala Harris claims fact-checked

International
Kamala Harris has been holding rallies across the US as she campaigns against Donald Trump, and will appear in Milwaukee on Tuesday ahead of...

GSS advocates for independence to fact-check figures, data from government

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The Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Anim, has advocated a strong National Statistical System that will be independent and will not be influenced by...

AI, journalism and fact-checking in Ghana; navigating the maze

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The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the news industry will transform newsroom practice, scale the work of media outlets, improve the efficiency of...

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

Africa
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?

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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

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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

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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

Entertainment
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?

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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?

Coronavirus
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

Coronavirus
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

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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...
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