Fact Check
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Akufo-Addo rehashes Bawumia’s false claim on Ghana’s financial inclusion rankings
Claim: A few days after DUBAWA rated a false claim by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, President Nana Akufo-Addo repeated that…
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Claim cedi traded at 3.8 to the dollar in 2016, false
Claim: Kwaku Owusu Banahene, a Communication Team Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has claimed that the exchange rate…
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FALSE! Cocoa producer prices went up twice in Akufo-Addo’s first term
Claim: The 2024 presidential candidate of Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, claims the cocoa producer price…
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Misleading! 3, not 6, NDC executives in Hohoe defected to NPP
Claim: An online platform, Adomonline.com, reports that six NDC executives have defected to the NPP in Hohoe. Verdict: Misleading. Our…
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Viral claims about Bawumia, Kayaye and digitalisation, false!
Claim: A controversial fact card has gone viral in which Dr Bawumia allegedly said head potters (Kayayes) have stopped using…
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Video claiming Akufo Addo replied to Dr Bawumia’s comment on advisory role comment, misleading
Claim: Social media users, including X and YouTube users, published a video claiming President Akufo-Addo has responded to Dr Bawumia…
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Official data disproves Sammy Gyamfi’s claim about Ghana’s Exchange Rate in Nov. 2022
Claim: Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, claims the cedi was pegged at 17.00 to a dollar…
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Ghana’s debt-to-GDP ratio in 2016 was above 72%, not 57%
Claim: Ghana’s ex-President and the 2024 Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says the…
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Announcing DUBAWA Digital Skills and Fact-checking Training for journalists in Nigeria, Ghana, and LiberiaDUBAWA is excited to announce its upcoming fact-checking and digital verification capacity-building programme for journalists in non-urban communities in Nigeria,…
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John Mahama rehashes false claim about NDC’s role in public universities establishment
Claim: The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, says every public university in the country was initiated and…
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