The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has organized a capacity-building training on investigative reporting and fact-checking for selected journalists in Ghana.
The 3-day training held in Accra from February 23 to 26, 2026, aimed to equip media professionals with skills to verify information, combat misinformation, and uphold the highest standards of journalism.
Drawn from regions across the country, participating journalists were taken through training on data journalism and fact-checking to equip them with requisite journalistic skills to conduct enterprise reporting.
The training was the third of such organized under the MFWA’s Countering Corruption through Accountability Journalism and Improved Freedom of Expression Environment in Ghana.
It also formed part of the Participation, Accountability, Integrity for a Resilient Democracy (PAIReD) programme commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which is co-financed by the European Union in Ghana and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and implemented by GIZ Ghana in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance of Ghana.
Madam Roselena Ahiable, facilitator for the fact-check training, underscored the need to empower journalists with essential skills to combat the large volumes and evolving sophistication of mis/disinformation.
“The volume and sophistication of misinformation and disinformation demand that journalists arm themselves with practical verification workflows,” she said.
