DW Akademie Africa

Checking facts and building trust in Burkina Faso

On International Fact-Checking Day (International Fact-Checking Network), DW Akademie and our partner FasoCheck stand by our belief that access to reliable, verified information strengthens democracy. This is why fact checking stories that impact people’s everyday lives and livelihoods is critical, in Burkina Faso and beyond!

Pour la #JourneeMondialedelaRadio, rejoignez l’équipe de la radio Kakoadb Yam Venegre et ses formats de dialogue innovants, en coopération avec la DW Akademie Africa, FasoCheck et le Réseau d'Initiatives de Journalistes - RIJ ! Les personnes déplacées internes, les populations hôtes et les autorités tentent de trouver ensemble des solutions aux problèmes liés à l’insécurité. Ces images ont été tournées début 2022. Par mesure de sécurité, les émissions interactives de la radio de Ziniaré sont désormais produites en studio.

Kenya: Screening "Generation Africa" movies in the Kakuma refugee camps

Join us at the movies! 🍿 Our partner organizations Steps for the Future (South Africa) and FilmAid Kenya recently joined forces to screen some of the films from the "Generation Africa" series in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. 🇰🇪 "Generation Africa" brings together documentaries made by filmmakers across Africa and tells the stories of migration from an African perspective. Make sure to stream “Generation Africa” via Arte (regional restrictions may apply): https://lnkd.in/e7u7KFeg

Current trainee Shabnam Surita

Do you think you have what it takes to become a DW Deutsche Welle trainee? Then today is your last chance to apply for our #multimedia journalism #traineeship that offers a hands-on experience at Germany’s international broadcaster. 🎙️📱📹 Maybe you could follow Shabnam Surita's footsteps and report from New Delhi! 🇮🇳

Congratulations 🥳 to the DW Akademie Alumni-Kenya! For the first time ever, a record breaking 11,000 media, political and civil society representatives attended the 2022 Lake Region Media Forum. The conference took place on several online platforms and over a period of one month where 4 events were hosted. Under the heading "Media in Transformative times: Embracing Change”, the interactive sessions debated important questions related to this year’s national elections, addressed the representation of women in the media and touched on topics such as data protection and ethical principles. With the record attendance at this year's econference, it is clear that the DW Akademie Alumni Network - consisting of over 1000 members - has finally established itself as a strong voice within the Kenyan media landscape. 🇰🇪 Have you had a chance to watch the sessions yet? If not, then make sure to 👍 like and 👉🏿 follow DW Akademie Alumni-Kenya where you can watch all the sessions and follow their activities! #kenya #alumni #journalism #media👍

Our last video from the PodcasTraining team is from #BurkinaFaso and was produced in collaboration with Radio Venegre.👌 Thank you to the talented team from Kernel Graphics for the great video 🥳. #podcast #radio #BurkinaFaso

A few weeks ago we celebrated International Podcast Day. Do you remember this special day where we highlighted the interesting projects done by DW Akademie's PodcastTraining team? Today we would like to share a video from #Malawi that was produced in collaboration with Capital FM Malawi. As people were struggling to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of scabies started popping up in Blantyre, meaning some communities were worried about two serious health issues. The podcast highlights the important of receiving accurate, more accessible information, especially during a pandemic. It also focuses on the real concerns of the people in Malawi and shares the voices of the people in the community. Watch the video below and let us know what you think! 👇🏿

DW Akademie Film Development Fund

Calling all 📽️Filmmakers from 🇺🇬🇹🇿🇪🇹: 🔹Want to develop your film project? 🔹Want to know how you can get funding and personalized training? 🔹Have you heard about the DW Akademie Film Development Fund? Watch our video and then go to https://akademie.dw.de/filmfund/ to apply!

#EMIdémie - or #MILdemic in English - is an MIL project in Africa raising local awareness about how to deal with mis- and disinformation during a pandemic. Dis you know that EMIdémie | MILdemic has now taken place in 4 countries 😍! Check out what the participants in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Namibia will be doing differently after the workshops that they attended last year. We cant wait to have new workshops in even more countries this year! #EMIdemie #MILdemic EducommunicAfrik, Coordinator Milli Namibia Thank you to Sarrah Michelle for the editing!

#DisarmingDisinformation: Nadege from Fasocheck Burkina Faso

Our partner in Burkina Faso, FasoCheck, helps media houses integrate fact-checking into their newsrooms by teaching them various verification methods and tools. #disarmingdisinformation

Listen up...Today is International Podcast Day! 🎙 DW Akademie's PodcasTraining team looks back on a wonderful collaboration with PWANI FM in Mombasa, Kenya. Over several months the radio station's journalists were trained and produced two great podcasts - both absolutely making an audible difference. 📟 Listen to the great Climate Change podcast they produced and happy International Podcast Day! And a big thank you to the talented animation designers Matt and Fionn from Kernel Graphics! #InternationalPodcastDay #africanpodcast #podcasters #podcasting #audio #climate change

#DisarmingDisinformation: Henok Fente takes action against mis- and disinformation

Due to transformative changes, information disorder is a big issue in Ethiopia. 🇪🇹 As new media freedoms have expanded in the country, so has the amount of #misinformation and #disinformation. To counter this, DW Akademie partnered with MERSA Media Institute, a nonprofit media policy think tank in Addis Ababa. As part of our social media campaign, Executive Director Henok Fente recommends 2️⃣ main interventions they've implemented. #DisarmingDisinformation

👉EMIdémie | MILdemic – enjoy the highlights of the products our participants created during our workshops in Burkina Faso! 👉EMIdémie | MILdemic – regardez les creations médiathiques que nos participant.e.s venant du Burkina Faso ont produit dans le cadre de nos ateliers!

Thanks to the Media Foundation for West Africa(MFWA) #Ghana now has ten new #investigative #journalists Investigative journalism? When Leonard Kofi Agyei´s mom first heard about her son´s plans, she worried about him. “Over time she accepted that this is the passion I have to pursue.”, he says. 💡He is one of ten young journalists who have just graduated the new MFWA Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship program. After being selected through interviews and an aptitude test, they embarked on a 5 months journey. Bootcamps and workshops have equipped them with the tools to research their own investigative stories. 🔎

#MonHistoire : Les participant.e.s du projet EMIdémie en Côte d’Ivoire partagent leurs expériences avec la désinformation pendant la pandémie, dans les vidéos réalisées avec leurs smartphones. #EMIdémie #MILdemic Soro Tenenan Nawa Moïse Tuo Marie Josiane Kouadio Andrée Danielle Ebrotié Junior Pierre Germain Koffi Maréchal Olivier Yao Sarrah Michelle

Prochain arrêt du projet EMIdémie en Côte d’Ivoire : #Abengourou, à l’est du pays. Merci à toutes et tous pour votre participation active et la facilitation ! #EMIdémie #MILdemic Andrée Danielle Ebrotié Junior Pierre Germain Koffi Sarrah Michelle Abraham Kouassi

Le projet EMIdémie de la DW Akademie a fait le tour de la Côte d’Ivoire. Suivez-nous à #Yamoussoukro et #Korhogo, où les participant.e.s et facilitateurs/-trices très engagé.e.s ont échangé sur la désinformation en temps de pandémie. Merci beaucoup ! #EMIdémie #MILdemic Marie Josiane Kouadio Nawa Moïse Tuo Maréchal Olivier Yao Soro Tenenan Sarrah Michelle Ella Djiguimde Abraham Kouassi

Lutter contre la désinformation en temps de pandémie – c’est le but du projet EMIdémie de la DW Akademie qui a eu lieu dans 4 villes en Côte d’Ivoire. Voici ce que cela signifie pour les jeunes à #Adzopé. Merci à toutes et tous qui ont participé, facilité et accompagné ce projet, c'était une belle expérience ! #EMIdémie #MILdemic Victor Achou Kouachi Jules Dit Kkj Sarrah Michelle Abraham Kouassi

Constructive Dialogues Series: Do-it-yourself: Constructive Journalism stories

Marie-José (MJ) Daoud, Co-Founder of the media and communication platform Labneh&Facts (Lebanon), Moses (Ras) Mutabaruka, Founder of TAP Media Ltd, a Pan-African media platform (Kenya), and Sumeya Gasa, a journalist and filmmaker in South Africa. The moderator is Dina Aboughazala from Egab, a solutions journalism platform based in Egypt.