Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards are now open to journalists, journalism students and professional fact-checkers. This is the longest-running awards programme celebrating fact-checking journalism in the African media. In 2024, we received 241 entries from 29 African countries. We expect even more in 2025.
“Now in their 12th year, these awards honour individuals who work tirelessly and with excellence to champion the use of factual information. Their efforts form a cornerstone of transparency and trust in our societies, especially at a time when misinformation and disinformation threaten to erode them,” said Hlalani Gumpo, Africa Check’s head of outreach and impact.
In 2024, Adnan Sidibe was the winner in the Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker category. Sidibe said: “Receiving the African Fact-Checking Award honours more than just my personal journey, but a team effort. It highlights the silences of rigorous, often discreet, but vital work. This distinction celebrates an Africa that verifies, informs itself, and resists the manipulation of information; a call to push back the shadow of disinformation.”
To qualify, entries must have been first published or broadcast between 1 May 2024 and 7 June 2025. The fact-check should conclude that a claim about an important topic, originating in or relevant to Africa, is either misleading or false.
The awards have three categories, with one winner and one runner-up in each. The categories are:
Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist
The winners of the working journalist and professional fact-checker categories will each receive US$3,000. Runners-up will receive $1,500. For the student journalist category, the winner will receive $2,000 and the runner-up $1,000.
Entries close at midnight GMT on 7 June 2025. For more information, and the terms and conditions, please visit the Africa Check awards page.
About Africa Check: Africa Check is a non-profit organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. The goal of our work is to raise the quality of information available to society across the continent.
