Justin is the CEO at Code for Africa (CfA). He is an investigative data journalist and civic technology strategist and works across Africa, and also in the Caucasus region (currently based in Tbilisi). Justin serves on a number of digital democracy and civic data/tech bodies, including the Code for All governing board, and the&nbsp; World Bank/IMF’s Data to Development advisory board, amongst others.

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PesaCheck is a pioneering verification initiative that is kickstarting fact-checking across Africa. Initially focused on verifying the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, PesaCheck is now Africa’s largest with full-time fact-checkers in 15 countries in both east and west Africa, as well as across the Sahel.
PesaCheck fact-checks in two international languages (English and French), as well as major African languages such as Kiswahili and Amharic. Our network helps track political promises by politicians (through our Wajibisha/PromiseTracker toolkit), helps unpack budget and census data (through our PesaYetu and TaxClock platforms), and builds machine learning/artificial intelligence tools (such as DebunkBot) to help automate verification.

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PesaCheck, a pioneering verification initiative, debunks misleading claims with full-time fact-checkers in 15 African countries.

Doreen is PesaCheck’s managing editor and has previously worked with Nation Media Group’s Business Daily. Doreen is also a Global Reporting Program Fellow and was previously a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Banking from Nazarene University.