The Africa Facts Network, a pan-African collaboration of fact-checking organisations working to safeguard information integrity and strengthen societal resilience across the continent, has opened a call for proposals, inviting submissions for presentations, panels, workshops, and other sessions ahead of this year’s Africa Facts Summit 2026, which will be focused on information integrity across Africa.
The call is open to members of the Africa Facts network, the wider fact-checking community, and stakeholders from related fields working to uphold information integrity on the continent.
According to the Africa Facts Network, topics for submissions include artificial intelligence, disinformation, elections, media literacy, financial scams, and other emerging challenges affecting the information ecosystem in Africa.
Beyond fact-checking, the Africa Facts Network, formed in 2017, engages with media, academia, civic actors, and technology communities to counter misinformation and disinformation, while promoting trustworthy information and informed public discourse.
The network currently includes 25 verified signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network and supports youth-led initiatives, including The Debunk Media Initiative, RoundCheck, Info Checked and 211Check.
Organised by Africa Check and local partners, the Africa Facts Summit has grown into a leading platform for collaboration and capacity building within Africa’s fact-checking community since its inaugural edition in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2022. Subsequent editions were held in Port Louis in October 2023, Accra in October 2024, and Dakar in October 2025, marking the first time the summit was hosted in a French-speaking country.
Each edition of the summit brings together approximately 200 participants, including fact-checkers, journalists, academics, civil society organisations, media professionals, and technology experts from across the continent to address the challenges of misinformation and disinformation through workshops, presentations, and panel discussions.
Discussions at previous summits have focused on issues such as election-related fact-checking, the impact of artificial intelligence, climate change misinformation, media literacy and partnerships with technology platforms.
One of the major outcomes of the 2024 summit in Ghana was the signing of the “Accra Declaration on Information Integrity and Resilience” by 50 fact-checking organisations, committing to collaborative efforts aimed at promoting information integrity across Africa through media literacy initiatives, community outreach, and youth engagement.
Another major feature of the summit is the African Fact-Checking Awards gala dinner, which recognises excellence in fact-checking journalism across three categories: working journalist, professional fact-checker. and a student journalist. Winners in the professional categories receive $3,000, while runners-up receive $1,500. In the student category, winners receive $2,000, and runners-up receive $1,000.
Through its annual gatherings, the Africa Facts network continues to expand efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation, promote media literacy and strengthen resilient communities across Africa, while addressing issues such as gendered misinformation, climate crisis communication, linguistic diversity, and threats faced by fact-checkers and investigative journalists.
The deadline for submissions is midnight on Tuesday, 30 June. Visit this link for more information, and click here to submit a proposal.
