#211Check – Fact Checked Reports
Fact-checking and Information Verification in South Sudan
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 administrative areas as published by two mainstream media...
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 circulating online, in which a Chinese man is seen...
Online scholarships offered by Unicaf University are not fraudulent, according to the 211 Check investigations...
June 4, 2021
Covid-19,Explainer,Malinformation,Misinformation and Disinformation,Propaganda and Conspiracy
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 by 211 Check, It’s alleged that...
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 violence which occurred in Ulang County of Upper...
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 giraffe that collided with a passenger plane. The tweet was caption “Only in...
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 note, yet the recently launched 1000...
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...
Author: Emmanuel Bida 211 Check investigations have identified the trending message 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 online fraud popular on WhatsApp...
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 Tuesday, 11th May 2021 claimed in a...
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 with the highest electric fee...
Author: Garang Abraham – Managing Editor At least eighty-two people have died in different plane crashes since South Sudan succeeded from Sudan nine years ago, according to Aviation Safety Network. As per the data obtained by 211 Check, the biggest incident that claimed 41 lives happened near Juba...
Fact-Checking & Information Verification In South Sudan
211 Check is South Sudan’s first and only independent fact-checking and information verification flagship project established by Defyhatenow in March 2020 to counter COVID-19 dis/misinformation but has since grown in its scope of work. It became a signatory of the International Fact-checking Network’s (IFCN) Code of Principles in March 2023.
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