Code For Africa

04/06/2026

🤑 Paying money to get money?

Unsuspecting victims in Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal are falling prey to scams disguised as opportunities for locals. Victims are persuaded to make upfront payments, share personal data, or recruit others, only realising the deception after suffering financial losses.

Publicly available victim testimonies make it difficult to quantify the full scale of harm and how the victims are ultimately exploited.

🔎 In this report, we highlight how these sophisticated, deceptive networks operate across three West African nations: Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal.

💡 Read more here: https://cfa.fyi/inuFUCj

04/06/2026

🔐 Digital Security course for beginners

As a digital professional, acquire the right skills to manage and secure your personal and professional online interactions.

🎓 This free course for beginners will help you understand key privacy considerations for information sharing and online activity. You will delve deeper into essential concepts and practical strategies that will help you safeguard your digital presence.

📍 Available to participants in West Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel region.

✍🏾 Enrol today: https://cfa.fyi/vxXIRXW

03/06/2026

📣 New report: South Africa Indie Info Providers: Responding to Resource Constraints with Creativity and Collaboration

👩🏾‍💻 What drives South Africa's independent information providers? How are they building trust, reaching audiences, and sustaining their work?

Code For Africa, in partnership with the Center for News, Technology & Innovation - CNTI, has released new research exploring the experiences, challenges, and opportunities shaping this growing sector.

The findings highlight a community of innovators who are:
📌 Strengthening access to locally relevant information
📌 Building partnerships across the media ecosystem
📌 Exploring new pathways to sustainability

🧠 Find the full report here: https://cfa.fyi/6WOxrNb

03/06/2026

🇧🇫 Is Burkina Faso really experiencing an economic miracle, or is social media telling a different story?

Across Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram, and X, viral posts claim that Burkina Faso has rejected IMF support, paid off its debt, and secured massive billion-dollar investment deals.

This investigation by Nigeria found that many of the most widely shared claims are exaggerated, misleading, or entirely false. Behind them lies a coordinated ecosystem of content creators and influencers recycling the same narratives and inflated figures.

This article was produced with support from the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI), as part of an initiative by Code for Africa.

🔗 Read the full investigation: https://cfa.fyi/rfcvu8r

02/06/2026

🇪🇹 A false origin story is being used to redraw the boundaries of belonging in Ethiopia.

That is what two narratives circulating in Ethiopia’s online spaces are doing. One falsely claims Oromos are not from Ethiopia, but from Madagascar. The other frames the federal government as an “Oromo government” backing attacks on Amhara people.

💡 ADDO traced how these narratives are travelling through Ethiopia’s tense election season.

Between 1 May 2025 and 22 April 2026, X posts accusing Oromos of killing Amhara civilians generated 6.12 million views and 167,056 interactions. On Facebook, the 1,000 most-viewed posts on the topic drew about 9.54 million views and 105,936 reactions.

🔗 Read ADDO’s analysis: https://cfa.fyi/OU6Xcp9

28/05/2026

📢 Les candidatures se terminent bientôt, postulez avant le 31 mai : https://cfa.fyi/NcaPtpW

🔎 Appel à tous les journalistes et leaders civiques au Bénin, au Burkina Faso, au Cameroun, au Tchad, en Guinée, au Mali, en Mauritanie, au Niger, au Sénégal, en Somalie, au Soudan et au Togo.

Les candidatures sont ouvertes pour la cohorte 5 de la formation sur la manipulation de l’information, un programme en ligne gratuit conçu pour renforcer les compétences en vérification des faits et en intégrité de l’information.

Les participants apprendront à vérifier des photos, des vidéos, des fichiers audio, des sites Web et des contenus publiés sur les réseaux sociaux, tout en explorant le rôle de l’IA dans l’amélioration de l’efficacité éditoriale et de la précision.

Le programme associe compétences techniques, scénarios concrets, cadre juridique, sécurité numérique et comportements responsables en ligne. Il vise à aider les participants à se protéger tout en renforçant la résilience numérique de leurs organisations et de leurs communautés.

💡 La formation se déroulera du 4 juin au 8 juillet 2026.
📆 Postulez avant le 31 mai : https://cfa.fyi/NcaPtpW

28/05/2026

🔎 HumAngle’s investigation begins with a suspicious invitation to a “journalism summit” in Niamey. The gathering was sold as media cooperation, but journalists who attended say it quickly became a platform for pro-junta messaging aimed at Nigeria’s Hausa-speaking north.

Produced with support from the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI) and the African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO).

💡 Read the full investigation: https://cfa.fyi/euAqw2a

27/05/2026

⁉️ Que se passe-t-il lorsque des personnalités publiques ivoiriennes critiquent l'AES ?

Pour certains, la réaction violente a inclus des campagnes de calomnie homophobes.

L'ADDO a retracé des campagnes visant le journaliste Daouda Coulibaly, le musicien Tiken Jah Fakoly et la figure religieuse Camille Makosso, après que ceux-ci ont critiqué l'Alliance des États du Sahel ou des acteurs liés à ce bloc.

Ces campagnes ont utilisé des images manipulées, du contenu généré par l'IA et des publications copiées-collées pour diffuser de fausses allégations sur leur sexualité et nuire à leur réputation.

🔗 En savoir plus: https://cfa.fyi/Ws2FsMa

27/05/2026

📢 Les candidatures se terminent aujourd'hui. Postulez dès maintenant: https://cfa.fyi/u09MVrS

Le programme de formation et d'incubation CheckDesks — lancé par Code for Africa et l'AFCA — recrute ses prochaines organisations partenaires.

📢 ICYMI| Les candidatures sont désormais ouvertes !

Êtes-vous un média ou une organisation de la société civile (OSC) basé(e) au Sénégal, au Mali ou au Burkina Faso, et engagé(e) dans la lutte contre la désinformation ? Le programme de formation et d'incubation CheckDesks — lancé par Code for Africa et l'AFCA — recrute ses prochaines organisations partenaires.

Cet incubateur couvre le fact-checking, l'OSINT et les enquêtes numériques !

Bénéficiez d'un accompagnement de mentors et d'un soutien financier.

🔗 En savoir plus : https://cfa.fyi/u09MVrS

📆 Date limite : 27 mai 2026

26/05/2026

🇬🇭 He thought he had been offered work as a military assistant.

Earlier reporting revealed how Ghanaian nationals seeking work abroad were drawn into irregular Russian military contracts through misleading job offers.

💡 A new follow-up story documents the long-term impact on some returnees and the wider concerns around cross-border labour recruitment.

Produced with support from the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI) and the African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO).

👉🏾 Read the latest story: https://cfa.fyi/y5emQUR