Alphonce Shiundu, Author at Alphonce Shiundu

“Why it’s difficult to trust data on roads built under Jubilee”

May 11, 2018 / Africa, Kenya

If Kenyans are to believe the country’s data agency, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government went on a road-building spree in 2017, and by the end of the year, the government had built 6,100 kilometers of new tarmac roads using just a quarter of the resources needed. It is difficult to build 6,100km of new tarmac roads […]

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“Fighting for honesty and truth”.

Disinformation can start anywhere – and, with the help of the digital grapevine and the political rumor mill, spread to all corners of the African continent within minutes. Fact-checking is a necessity. As early as 1710, the great British satirist Jonathan Swift wrote: “As the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has