2026 Africa Check Fellowship Programme, Dakar, Senegal

From 17 August to 2 September 2026, KAS Media Africa partnered with Africa Check to support the seventh edition of the Francophone Fact-Checking Fellowship Programme in Dakar, Senegal. The programme brought together five journalists from Togo, Chad, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Senegal for an intensive fellowship focused on fact-checking methodologies, digital verification techniques, artificial intelligence, media literacy, and combating misinformation in increasingly complex information environments.