Fact Check
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Viral WhatsApp message on free cancer surgery, false
Claim: A viral WhatsApp message suggests that the African Cancer Foundation offers 200 breast cancer patients free treatment. Verdict: False.…
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FIFA labels ‘blue card’ in elite game reports as “incorrect”
Claim: Multiple media reports say that the footballing body, FIFA, will introduce a “blue card” in the elite game to…
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PART 2: Bawumia’s bold solutions and what DUBAWA found
With a few months until Ghana’s crucial election in Dec. 2024, candidates consistently share their visions in the hope that…
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Bawumia’s bold solutions and what DUBAWA found
With a few months until Ghana’s crucial election in Dec. 2024, candidates consistently share their visions in the hope that…
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Misleading! Ghana recorded single-digit inflation in 2018, 2019, except 2017
Claim: The Ghanaian government’s spokesperson on Security, Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, says the country recorded single-digit inflation in 2017, 2018, and 2019.…
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FALSE! Ghana’s President, Vice-President did not launch GH₵500 notes, coins
CLAIM: A TikTok user @kingfreshgh1 claims on Metro TV that Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo and Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia launched GH₵500…
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Sierra Leone is West Africa’s safest country, not Ghana
Claim: Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has described his country as the “safest in West Africa.” Verdict: False. Data released by…
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Visa racketeering claim against Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to China in viral video, false
Claim: A video of an unnamed news anchor alleging that Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Nana…
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Call For Application: Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship 2024
DUBAWA, Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, has opened the call for applications for its 2024 Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship. This…
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EXPLAINER: Ghanaian court sentences six persons to death over 2019 coup plot
A Ghanaian court has convicted and sentenced six persons, including three military officers, to death by hanging after they were…
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