What do you do as you’re a fact-checker when the data you need simply isn’t there?

In this episode of Behind the Facts, we speak to Elias in Ethiopia and Remaz in Sudan about the daily realities of working in places where public information is restricted, unreliable—or completely cut off.

From Sudan’s war-fuelled information vacuum to Ethiopia’s shrinking civic space, they reveal how the absence of trusted data makes fact-checking nearly impossible—and allows misinformation to thrive.

🎧 Tune in for a powerful conversation about censorship, conflict and what it means to fight for the truth when the facts are hidden.

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This episode was produced by the Africa Check team: Khumo Motaung, Tshiamo Mononyane, and Laura Kapelari. Your show host for this episode is Thipe Maelane, also from Africa Check.

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