At the invitation of the European Union’s External Action Service, eight African journalists from Chad, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of the Cong (DRC) took part in a program of visits to European institutions organized as part of this project by the EEAS Sub-Saharan Africa Task Force. Balobaki Check shared its experience during the November 2023 electoral campaign in the DRC.

At a time of strategic competition and complex security threats, journalists were given access to the various forms of interference and manipulation of information. Quality discussions with panelists who are at the heart of the action enlightened the opinions of various journalists.

In the DRC, Balobaki check is contributing its expertise in the fight against disinformation as part of the project “Monitoring information flows and building media sector capacity to deal with de/misinformation and hate speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, supported by the Fondation Hirondelle and funded by the European Union.

The aim of this project is to help ease tensions generated by hate speech and other de/misinformation content in the DRC and the region by building a “Trust and Facts’ Hub” in the country, a network with the capacity to monitor and respond to de/misinformation.

Balobaki Check is a fact-checking website based in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It won the first prize for innovation in the media last October. Awarded by , theOrganisation internationale de la Francophonie.