Code For Africa

29/09/2025

💼 We’re an instructional designer!

CCode For Africais on the hunt for a mid-level instructional designer to develop engaging and interactive courses for our e-learning platform, academy.AFRICA.

In this role, you will help build and expand our portfolio of programmes that equip African journalists and researchers with game-changing digital skills.

Our e-learning platform, academy.AFRICA offers courses ranging from fact-checking and open-source investigation to drone journalism and immersive 360° video storytelling.

💻 Focus: MOOCs, digital learning, and curriculum design

📍 Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, or anywhere in Africa

🔗 Apply here: https://bit.ly/3WbJbEG

📆 30 October

26/09/2025

26/09/2025

A passport meant to symbolise sovereignty quickly became the target of disinformation.

The AES passport, launched by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as a break from ECOWAS, quickly drew false claims that China had refused to recognise it.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4mtd3an

25/09/2025

How disinformation is fuelling division across Africa

On this Pulse Report, we analyse disinformation trends across Africa, focusing on weaponised narratives, and tactics used to manipulate public opinion, sow division, and influence politics. Ethnic groups such as the Fulani in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are being falsely linked to terrorism.

These weaponised stories, often amplified by influential actors, are designed to polarise communities and shape political outcomes.

Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3Vy3Jaj

25/09/2025

Navigating the age of doubt, journalism's present and future

Happening today | Code For Africa CEO ICFJ+ co-founder Justin Arenstein joins the 'Navigating the age of doubt' opening panel at the , moderated by iMEdD Co-founder + Managing Director Anna Kynthia Bousdoukou.

Justin and panelists will be diving into the current state of the media –and how news providers can move forward to restore trust, relevance, and integrity.

⏰ Sept. 25, 6:15 p.m. EET

🔗 https://forum.imedd.org

24/09/2025

🌐 Facing online harassment, coordinated abuse, or doxxing?

The Anti-trolling helpdesk is here for CSOs and CBOs. Our professional team helps investigate, document, and report attacks—confidentially and at no cost. Protect your organisation and your team.

🛡️ Confidential. Professional. Free.

📝 Request support here 👉 : https://bit.ly/4p0i3FR

24/09/2025

“Watra,” “Ben Dramane Laden,” “President for life.”

These are just a few of the names weaponised in a coordinated disinformation campaign against Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara’s fourth-term bid. As Côte d’Ivoire heads to the polls in October 2025, a new ADDO report reveals how influencers, AI tools, and cross-border networks are distorting facts, reframing contexts, and manipulating public opinion.

Read the investigation: https://bit.ly/3KiSMqC

23/09/2025

's purpose is being questioned. So what comes next?

At this year’s (iMEdD , our very own Justin Arenstein, Johnny Miller, and Alicia Olago join some of the world’s leading journalism voices to tackle urgent questions facing the profession today.

• Justin will reflect on how newsrooms can rebuild trust, relevance, and public service in an age of doubt and digital disruption.

• He’ll also be joined by Johnny and Alicia for a hands-on workshop showing how drones, sensors, and satellite imagery can fuel powerful storytelling

📍Athens

📆 Sept 25–27

🎟️ Register: https://forum.imedd.org/

19/09/2025

Germany’s €500 million loan to help South Africa move away from coal is fuelling coordinated narratives online.

Posts frame the deal as corrupt and foreign-controlled, often comparing it to Germany’s own coal use. Similar claims target Namibia’s green hydrogen projects, accusing elites of misusing climate funds.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3K7moXV

18/09/2025

Chris Roper, CfA's senior strategist gets real about the use, spread and impact of AI at Digital Media Africa.

Is it a takeover, or just another tool to integrate into modern day ways of working? AI has already taken over some routine tasks, but for journalists, the stakes are higher.

18/09/2025

🌍 Where does Africa stand on LGBTQ+ rigths? 🏳️‍🌈

🇿🇦 South Africa is still the only country on the continent to legalise same-sex marriage (2006) and outlaw discrimination based on orientation.

🇧🇫 In Burkina Faso, consensual same-sex relations remain illegal, and in 2024 lawmakers introduced a draft bill to further criminalise them.

Despite legal progress in South Africa, LGBTQ+ people still face widespread discrimination across the continent.

⚖️ Learn more: https://bit.ly/46m4d8x

18/09/2025

🌍 Putting the Africa into AI 🤖

AI brings both opportunities and challenges for African media. It can support more efficient newsrooms and innovative storytelling, but it also fuels disinformation, hate speech, and virality that undermines trust.

Roper, CfA's senior strategist, delivers a keynote at WAN‑IFRA's Digital Media Africa 2025 to discuss how African newsrooms can embrace the potential of AI without succumbing to its pitfalls.

Happening now: https://bit.ly/4pktwAm