Code For Africa (CfA)

Un journaliste ivoirien, un musicien et un pasteur se sont retrouvés au centre de campagnes de diffamation homophobes. Des publications Facebook ont commencé à circuler, contenant des images manipulées, du contenu généré par l'IA et de fausses allégations sur leur sexualité. 🧐 Alors, quel était le fil conducteur ? Découvrez comment les critiques de l'AES sont prises pour cible par le biais de calomnies homophobes, de « preuves » manipulées et d'une amplification coordonnée. 🔗 En savoir plus: https://cfa.fyi/Ws2FsMa

📢 Code For Africa (CfA), in partnership with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is looking for Media Sentinels to help strengthen information integrity in South Africa on a paid fellowship! 💡 We're looking for experts in social media listening and digital forensics to detect and disrupt malign actors targeting democratic processes. Fellows will receive advanced training and mentoring from CfA’s forensic iLAB team to provide information on coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) and other information manipulation and interference (IMI) behaviour within their countries. Key Focus Areas: •Countering Foreign Information Manipulation (FIMI) • Climate-related narratives & Xenophobia •The 2026 South African Municipal Elections • Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence (tFGBV) in South Africa. Applicants must be non-partisan, fluent in English or French, and possess strong cross-platform analytical skills across Facebook platforms such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and X. 📆 Apply by 29 May 🔗 More information: https://cfa.fyi/2kELEVL

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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso says it is breaking free from foreign dependence. The data suggests otherwise. Since the 2022 coups, the country’s leadership has framed sovereignty as a rejection of foreign aid and debt. But official figures from government institutions show a different trajectory. 🔎 Public debt has risen by nearly 39% since 2021, reaching over 8.3 trillion CFA francs, with external debt now accounting for more than 40% of the total. At the same time, multilateral aid has surged to $1.5 billion in 2024, and major national projects remain largely financed by international partners. 💡 This analysis by Adom Online draws on official government data to examine the gap between rhetoric and reality: https://cfa.fyi/NvguC0f Produced with support from the African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI) and the African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO).

🛡️ If you're a journalist or civic leader in South Sudan or Ethiopia, don’t let this opportunity pass you by. Get the hands-on tools you need to become a digital first responder. 📆 Apply by 24 May: https://cfa.fyi/kN9IGwh ⚡Powered by Digital Democracy Initiative

👩🏾💻 Cybercrime is rising across Africa, but the systems meant to stop it are still struggling to keep up. As digital adoption accelerates, cybercrime is becoming a growing share of reported crime in parts of the continent. Yet critical gaps remain: only 30% of African countries have incident reporting systems, and 90% say they need significant improvements in prosecuting cybercriminals. 🔗 Learn what's driving cybercrime and why response systems are falling short: https://cfa.fyi/RYnZyOr

🧐 How does gender gap data become something the public can actually use? Before the visualisations and headline numbers, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes work: sourcing datasets, cleaning them, checking them, and preparing them for publication. 🔎 Here's how we do it at GenderGap.Africa: cfa.fyi/Qz3r3pW

TAEF statement on the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 This time last week, a gathering of more than 2,600 participants, including 1,200 online attendees, representing over 150 countries and 750 institutions, was cancelled only days before the event was set to take place. The cancellation of RightsCon, initially presented as a "postponement", erased a year's worth of work invested in organising an event of this magnitude. Code For Africa (CfA) stands firmly with The African National Editors Forum (TAEF), Zambian civil society and the wider digital rights community in condemning the cancellation. The community is calling on the Zambian government to provide a full and honest account of what happened, apologise to the organisers and partners, and offer credible guarantees that Zambia remains committed to democratic freedoms, including freedom of expression, assembly, media freedom, digital rights and open civic debate. The full statement: https://cfa.fyi/QljBDvI

Code For Africa (CfA) propose une formation en ligne gratuite sur l’intégrité de l’information, destinée aux journalistes, aux professionnels des médias, aux fact-checkers, aux enquêteurs numériques et aux leaders civiques au Soudan du Sud et en Éthiopie. Dispensée dans le cadre du projet Digitalise Youth, qui fait partie de l’initiative plus large Digital Democracy Initiative, cette formation aidera les participants à renforcer leurs compétences en vérification des faits et à rejoindre un réseau d’acteurs engagés dans la lutte contre la désinformation. Les participants apprendront à détecter et vérifier les contenus trompeurs, à enquêter sur les récits préjudiciables et à répondre à la désinformation par un journalisme fondé sur des preuves. La formation couvrira :  ✅ Les techniques fondamentales de vérification des photos, vidéos, fichiers audio et sites Web ✅ Les principes éthiques liés au plagiat et à l’intégrité factuelle à l’ère numérique ✅ L’intersection entre l’IA et la vérification des faits, ainsi que son rôle dans l’amélioration de l’efficacité éditoriale et de la précision ✅ Les méthodes d’enquête sur la mésinformation sur les réseaux sociaux, y compris les réseaux sociaux privés comme WhatsApp  💡 La formation se déroulera du 25 mai au 24 juin 2026. 📆 Postulez avant le 25 mai : https://cfa.fyi/kN9IGwh

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