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Fact-checking and Information Verification in South Sudan

Fact-Check: Did Mabior Garang establish his organization after meeting President Kiir?

National Conversation South Sudan, Mabior’s organisation, was registered by the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in March 2021. This was months ago before his recent meeting with President Salva Kiir By 211 Check Editorial Team In a tweet on Wednesday, 3rd November, Eye Radio...

Data Story: Reported Killings in South Sudan, 79 slain in October

By 211 Check Editorial Team Data collected by 211 Check according to multiple media reports from October of this year, show that at least 79 individuals were killed in violence-related incidents around South Sudan. In comparison to September, when 114 persons were slain, October’s figures show...

South Sudan Social Media Health Report – October 2021

Most online discussions among South Sudanese continue to happen mainly on Facebook and WhatsApp groups. It is also clear that digital natives are more interested in social issues around music, sports and comedy rather than politics and/or conspiracies. A 211 Check, Defy Hate Now South Sudan Report...

Fact-Check: Did John Frog feature in the Sound City Africa Top 20 Chart?

Singer John Frog claimed two days ago that he featured in the Top 20 Chart of Sound City Africa on 26/10/2021. Did he really appear in the list or at least was there an October Top 20 Chart on Sound City Africa? Here is the truth: By Emmanuel Bida Thomas South Sudanese singer John Frog...

Fact-Check: Have Authorities in Bor, Jonglei State banned women from wearing trousers and miniskirts?

By 211 Check Editorial Team For the past few weeks, women in Bor, Jonglei State have been banned from putting on trousers and/or miniskirts. According to a disclaimer seen by 211 Check, “If your girlfriend or wife is coming here (Bor, Jonglei State) with trousers or miniskirts, let her prepare to be...

Fact-Check: Who owns Thon Hotels in Norway?

According to Wikipedia, the Thon Hotels (formerly known as Rainbow Hotels) is a Norwegian-based hotel chain. It is currently the 3rd largest hotel chain in Norway with 50-odd hotels in Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands owned by Olav Thon By Emmanuel Bida Thomas A Facebook post this afternoon...

Fact-Check: This is not a picture showing the Kampala bus park in Sherikhat, Juba

The photo first used by The City Review Digital in its story “Sherikat youths invade Kampala park demanding jobs” is of a bus park found in Birendranagar, Nepal not Sherikhat, Juba By Emmanuel Bida Thomas A story by The City Review Digital, a local newspaper in South Sudan published on Saturday...

Fact-Check: Is the Bank of South Sudan offering rewards to its Website Visitors?

“This scam uses Bank of South Sudan’s brand names and logo in order to make the prize look legitimate. They claim that the BoSS offers prizes worth 300 thousand United States Dollars. This is not true, the BoSS does not offer prizes, awards, or funds,” reads a statement shared by the Bank of South...

Fact-Check: Sorry, Ecobank not offering $ 3000 present on 40th Anniversary

It’s true that Ecobank has an upcoming event. But it’s not an anniversary, not its 40th either. This is an event hinged on corporate social responsibility and no participants are required to click the malicious link above in order to join. And, there will be no specified $3000 present, at least. By...

Fact-Check: Has the South Sudan Government Announced Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination?

On Wednesday 13th October 2021, a press release by the office of The Vice President for Service Cluster and Chairman of the National Taskforce on COVID-19, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, announced that Public and Private Institutions will now have to undergo Mandatory COVID-19 Test and Vaccination. By...

Fact-Check: Is the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme Legitimate?

The Federal Republic of Nigeria has an initiative named Presidential Youth Entrepreneurship Support (P-YES) and the application dates for 2021 have not yet been announced. Their official site is hosted at www.p-yes.gov.ng  By: Oriba Douglas  A widely shared WhatsApp message claims that the...

DATA STORY: 870 fail 2020/21 Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations in South Sudan

By 211 Check Editorial Team Only 870 candidates out of 33,255 failed the 2020/21 Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations. The results were announced last Friday by Awut Deng Acuil, the Minister of General Education and Instruction who also serves as the chair of the National Examinations...

A report compiled by 211 Check Introduction During this reporting period, a total of 127 out 197 pages being monitored published nearly 15,000 posts at an average of 4.66 posts per day.  The interactions were way up by +48.28% compared

As some countries around the globe fight to contain the outbreak of Covid-19 various waves, South Sudan remains vulnerable to more infections from the expected third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, according to health experts. Recently, the Ministry of Health

South Sudan recorded its first Covid-19 case on April 5, 2020, through a foreign national that travelled from the Netherlands via the Ethiopian Capital Addis Ababa, and then later to Juba. After the announcement of the first case, health authorities

Author: Emmanuel Bida 211 Check July investigation has shown a huge decrease of citizens killed as a result of gun-violence across the country in July this year. A monthly data gathered by 211 Check from reports published by prominent mainstream media houses, such as Radio Miraya,

This June social media health report constitutes findings gathered from South Sudan’s numerous online pages on Facebook. The report bears rates of interactions by South Sudanese online users in the country and abroad as per various areas of interest.

Online scams are becoming more prevalent, it is essential to check whether the information you see online is legitimate. Are you always cautious about content obtained online?

Author: Bida Emmanuel At least 146 South Sudanese have been killed across the country in June this year due to gun related violence. June’s death data reveals a huge decrease of citizens killed as a result of gun violence, compared

Author: The Associated Press (AP) Do I need to get tested for COVID-19 if I’m vaccinated? No, you can skip routine testing, with some exceptions. The latest guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you don’t

Author: 211 Check Editorial Team Intensive investigative findings have revealed that UN radio misquoted Yei Commissioner over the local airstrip construction project. On Wednesday this week, Radio Miraya tweeted that the construction work of Yei airstrip lounge would cost $600,000.

Author: 211 Check Editorial team Numerous gun related incidents across South Sudan have left at least 310 civilians killed in the month of May alone. Last month, 211 Check documented reports of deaths across all the ten states and three

Author: Emmanuel Bida The current trending video about a one-on-one fight between two men at a construction site didn’t happened in South Sudan as stated, according to 211 Check investigations. In the past forty-eight hours, there has been a video

Online scholarships offered by Unicaf University are not fraudulent, according to the 211 Check investigations.

Author: Garang Abraham South Sudan’s ambassador to China John Andruga Duku is appealing to the public to disregard the trending news that he is suffering from AstraZeneca vaccine related complications after receiving the jab. According to a Facebook post seen

Author: Garang Abraham Online investigative outcomes have showed that renowned unregulated media house Bentiu TV used a wrong image to tell a story. Bentiu TV on Monday via Facebook posted a wrong image to describe the recent story of inter-communal

Author: Emmanuel Bida Online fact findings have indicated that there was no occurrence that led to the killing of a giraffe by a passenger plane in South Sudan.  On May 6th, a Twitter user posted a picture of a dead

Author: 211 Check editorial team Rigorous findings carried out by 211 Check crew have identified the notorious online Madam Atong Foundation Scholarship as fraud and deceitful page established to scam desperate South Sudanese and Sudanese students seeking scholarships online.  

By: 211 Check Editorial Team South Sudan’s Central Bank appeals to online and offline communities to disregard the trending 5,000 South Sudanese Pounds bank note.  This comes after many online users expressed concerns, why the bank would introduce the new

Author: Emmanuel Bida  South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit weeks ago reconstituted the Transitional National Transitional Legislative Assembly, as stipulated in the revitalized peace agreement.  The reconstituted national assembly now consists of 550 lawmakers, drawn from all political parties that

Author: Emmanuel Bida 211 Check investigations have identified the trending message [link] about Toyota’s 80th Anniversary Celebration and the giveaway of a Toyota Corolla being sent to numerous internet users on various social media platforms as a scam. The new

Author: Emmanuel Bida Uganda’s government institution has misfired Sudanese politician Malik Agar as a South Sudanese and a Vice President as well, according to online information found by 211 Check on Wednesday. A tweet by Government of Uganda @GovUganda on

Author: Emmanuel Bida – Associate Editor A new 211 Check report has revealed South Sudan in the East African region the country with most expensive domestic electricity charges. The statistics unveiled Juba Electricity Distribution Company (JEDCO) as the lead company

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