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The 17th Ebola virus disease outbreak was declared in the Rwampara and Mungbwalu health zones, in Ituri Province in the eastern part of the country, on May 15, 2026. The Minister of Public Health, Hygiene, and Social Welfare reported that analyses by the National...
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Since mid-May 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been facing a new Ebola outbreak in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu. This epidemic, linked to the Bundibugyo...
La réponse réside dans le silence fertile des communautés, là où le virus a circulé sous le manteau du mythe et de l’absence de l’intégrité de l’information. En Ituri, épicentre...
Kinshasa - July 29, 2025 - Balobaki Check, a leading fact-checking initiative focused on tackling misinformation across the francophone arena and the most biggest country in...
Cette semaine, des journalistes spécialisés dans la vérification des faits, venus du monde entier, convergent vers Rio de Janeiro à l'occasion de l'événement GlobalFact...
Kinshasa - April 02, 2025 - On International Fact-checking Day, BALOBAKI CHECK launches a Fact-checker network in the Democratic Republic to broaden citizen engagement in the...
By Ange Kasongo Adihe (Balobaki Check, RDC) et Valdez Onanina (Africa Check, Afrique francophone) - Translated by Helen Vesperini This text...
The publication claims that Mrs. Kasalu, Tshisekedi's mother, sent a message to the family. The voice message reads: "Let the whites come and decide between us. Don't back down....
It would be worrying if Meta were to stop collaborating with external fact-checkers in countries where access to information is limited. In March 2020, a Congolese mother was...
KINSHASA - January 10, 2025 - Balobaki Check sees Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg's decision as a bad omen for democracy. In the USA, Meta has announced the end of its collaboration...