Code For Africa

30/12/2025

🚨 Opportunity alert🚨 | Apply by 10 January 2026

🔗 Follow this link: https://cfa.fyi/8vkn7Ib

📢 We are hiring a Chief Financial Officer!

ICFJ+ is looking for a senior finance leader to guide the financial management of a global partnership that works across Africa and the United States.

The CFO will oversee budgeting, forecasting, compliance, audits and cross-border finance operations. This is an executive role that reports directly to the co-CEOs and plays a central part in shaping long-term financial sustainability.

If you want to help build a financially strong organisation that supports informed and active communities, we would like to hear from you.

📅 Deadline: 10 January 2026
🔗 Apply here: https://cfa.fyi/8vkn7Ib

29/12/2025

🚨 Deadline approaching: 31 December 2025
📖 About the project: https://cfa.fyi/Nz2zMAQ
📝 Apply here: https://cdn.jotfor.ms/253072320205543

🚺 Are you building a tool that could make a real impact in your community?

We’re calling on women’s rights organisations across Africa to join the Gender & AI Innovation Collective 2025.

💡 Together, we’ll explore how AI can help solve real community challenges, from gender-based violence and healthcare access to education and economic empowerment.

We will help you turn your ideas into AI-powered solutions that reflect your priorities and vision for gender justice.

👩🏽‍💻 What you’ll gain
✨ 8 weeks of community learning on AI, data, and ethical innovation
✨ Mentorship from AI engineers and gender experts
✨ Seed grants up to CAD 7,500 for prototypes
✨ Pilot funding of CAD 15,000 to test and scale your solution

⏰ Deadline: 31 December 2025

📖 About the project: https://cfa.fyi/Nz2zMAQ

📝 Apply here: https://cdn.jotfor.ms/253072320205543

📧 Questions: [email protected]

This initiative is co-led by Code For Africa and at the Table, supported by Development Research Centre (IDRC) and UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

26/12/2025

📆 Apply by 31 December 2025: https://cfa.fyi/dDlv7BR

📢 Are you are journalist in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal?

Code for Africa is looking for six journalists for cohort two of the AAOSI fellowship.

The African Academy for Open Source Investigation (AAOSI), supported by Code for Africa, will equip participants with OSINT and SOCMINT skills to track disinformation, influence operations, and online manipulation.

📆 Apply by 31 December 2025

🔗 https://cfa.fyi/dDlv7BR

✉️ Reach out: [email protected] / [email protected]

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

22/12/2025

📊Bourse WanaData pour data scientists et storytellers

Code For Africa offre 14 bourses rémunérées aux femmes data scientists et storytellers africaines pour donner plus de voix aux jeunes et promouvoir un espace numérique plus sûr à travers des projets centrés sur le genre.

Cette bourse de six mois vise à combler les lacunes de contenu sur les thématiques suivantes : cybersécurité, protection des données, e-démocratie, civic tech et droits humains, avec un focus sur le Sahel, l’Afrique de l’Ouest et la Corne de l’Afrique.

Les lauréates bénéficieront de:
• 250 $ d’allocation mensuelle
• Formation pratique à la vérification des faits et formation technique
• Mentorat individuel et accompagnement par les équipes Communities et Academy de CfA

📅Date limite : 11 Janvier 2026

🔗 https://cfa.fyi/rr2DCZE

Cette bourse s’inscrit dans une initiative conjointe entre Code For Africa, l’EPD, Africtivistes, CFImedias, le World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM, Kofi Annan Foundation(KAF), avec le NIMD/Jordan I Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)

22/12/2025

🇦🇴 When chicken imports are at risk in a struggling economy, and social media becomes the battlefield

A leaked government proposal to restrict meat imports set off a wave of claims from both supporters and critics. Many of the posts repeated unverified claims as fact, despite official data on Angola's food production capacity

Our investigation shows how online amplification turned a food-policy discussion into a propaganda tool.

Read the full analysis: https://cfa.fyi/mbtQKdl

19/12/2025

✨ Meet the 2025 WanaData Digitalise Youth Fellows

Fourteen women from across Africa have completed a six-moth programme focused on data journalism, digital rights, gender justice and strengthening civic space.

Their reporting and research spans gendered disinformation, climate injustice, digital privacy, mental health, access to education, and the visibility of women in public life.

🔗 Learn more about their work and impact: https://cfa.fyi/eG1ZCkR

19/12/2025

🌈 How LGBTQI+ narratives shifted online in 2025

This year, our investigations uncovered how online narratives about LGBTQI+ communities take shape across different African countries.

In Burkina Faso, new legislation coincided with a rise in online narratives that framed LGBTQI+ identities through political and religious rhetoric.

Our work also documented coordinated hate campaigns, exclusionary messaging, and the ways these dynamics influence public sentiment both online and offline.

🔗 Read some of our investigations : https://medium.com/

18/12/2025

📊 WanaData fellowship for female data scientists and storytellers

Code for Africa is offering 14 stipend-based fellowships for African female data scientists and storytellers to empower youth voices and promote a safer digital space through gender-focused projects.

The six-month fellowship aims to address conent gaps on gender-related projects, including cybersecurity, data protection, e-democracy, civic tech, and human rights with a focus on the Sahel, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa.

Fellows receive:
• $250 stipend/month
• Hands-on fact-checking and technical training
• One-on-one mentorship, and support from CfA's Communities and Academy teams

📅 Apply by 11 January 2026

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Fellows will amplify youth voices and increase their engagement in SDG 16, and civic technology by creating and improving content with a thematic focus on gender data in the Sahel region, neighbouring West Africa, and the Horns of Africa. Code for Africa (CfA) is offering stipend‐based WanaData Fe...

17/12/2025

📆 Apply by 7 January 2026: https://cfa.fyi/GDdc8m5

We're looking for a senior platform manager to join our TechLab team!

The role focuses on building shared foundations that improve developer experience across our product lines.

We're looking for a tech wiz who loves automation, cloud infrastructure, and building tools that make a real impact.

Key responsibilities include building and maintaining “Golden Paths”: reusable service templates and IaC modules for our core application patterns (e.g., web APIs on ECS/Fargate), complete with pre-configured logging, metrics, and alerts.

🔗 Learn more: https://cfa.fyi/GDdc8m5

📆 Apply by 7 January 2026

17/12/2025

🚺 Are you building a tool that could make a real impact in your community?

We’re calling on women’s rights organisations across Africa to join the Gender & AI Innovation Collective 2025.

💡 Together, we’ll explore how AI can help solve real community challenges, from gender-based violence and healthcare access to education and economic empowerment.

We will help you turn your ideas into AI-powered solutions that reflect your priorities and vision for gender justice.

👩🏽‍💻 What you’ll gain
✨ 8 weeks of community learning on AI, data, and ethical innovation
✨ Mentorship from AI engineers and gender experts
✨ Seed grants up to CAD 7,500 for prototypes
✨ Pilot funding of CAD 15,000 to test and scale your solution

⏰ Deadline: 31 December 2025

📖 About the project: https://cfa.fyi/Nz2zMAQ

📝 Apply here: https://cdn.jotfor.ms/253072320205543

📧 Questions: [email protected]

This initiative is co-led by Code For Africa and at the Table, supported by Development Research Centre (IDRC) and UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

16/12/2025

🇺🇬 Uganda faces online upheaval after human rights’ judge is convicted of slavery

A court verdict that shocked many quickly spiralled into an online storm. As the story spread, amplified posts fuelled polarised debates, targeted victim-blaming, and a surge of false claims that distorted the facts.

TruthAfrica’s investigation unpacks how outrage morphed into toxic online battles, and why cases involving power and abuse often attract coordinated misinformation.

Read the full analysis: https://cfa.fyi/Z5utqVx

16/12/2025

📢 We are hiring a Chief Financial Officer!

ICFJ+ is looking for a senior finance leader to guide the financial management of a global partnership that works across Africa and the United States.

The CFO will oversee budgeting, forecasting, compliance, audits and cross-border finance operations. This is an executive role that reports directly to the co-CEOs and plays a central part in shaping long-term financial sustainability.

If you want to help build a financially strong organisation that supports informed and active communities, we would like to hear from you.

📅 Deadline: 10 January 2026
🔗 Apply here: https://cfa.fyi/8vkn7Ib