Code for Africa (CfA) African Academy for Open Source Investigation Fellowships 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 6, 2026

Applications are open for the Code for Africa (CfA) African Academy for Open Source Investigation Fellowships 2026. Code for Africa (CfA) is providing six African Academy for Open Source Investigation (AAOSI) Fellowships to mentor journalists in choose African international locations.

The programme goals to foster stronger democratic accountability, strengthen digital resilience and safety of professional-democracy civil society actors, safeguard using digital applied sciences and on-line areas, and improve youth voices and youth civic engagement in a safe digital area. It will do that by equipping journalists from investigative media organisations and watchdog non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with open-supply intelligence (OSINT) and social media intelligence (SOCMINT) forensic evaluation expertise to supply proof-pushed analyses.

The fellowship will additional improve data integrity within the goal international locations by tackling data manipulation and interference (IMI), coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB), disinformation campaigns, hate speech, on-line harassment, propaganda, and the weaponisation of synthetic intelligence (AI) to pollute data ecosystems.

Benefits

The second cohort of the programme will span 4 months in 2026, and can include:

• Financial assist: The chosen journalists will obtain a month-to-month stipend to cowl associated actions and prices.
• Technical assist: CfA will provide fingers-on technical coaching, adopted by one-on-one venture mentorship and assist from CfA’s information technologists, information analysts, multimedia producers, and editors. 
• Publishing assist: The journalists will publish content material generated below the venture on their respective media platforms and can obtain assist to publish internationally. 
• Growing attain: CfA will provide amplification and development assist, together with scaling/syndication assist for the affiliated organisations.

Eligibility

Candidates should:

• Be based mostly in one of many goal African international locations. 
• Have a minimal of 1 12 months of expertise in journalism, with a robust desire for investigative or information journalism.
• Provide proof of experiences produced and just lately revealed.
• Be connected or affiliated to a media home, digital information outlet, or a related organisation the place content material produced through the venture will probably be revealed. This additionally applies to freelance journalists.
• Commit to publishing/disseminating their work on an applicable public platform. CfA will help with partnerships and syndications the place applicable.
• Commit to agreed-on weekly on-line coaching and mentorship classes.
• Be prepared to share their new expertise and information inside their organisation, by presenting their initiatives and strategies to their friends.
• Be fluent in both of the languages of tuition and mentorship (English or French).

Applications are welcome from journalists within the following areas/international locations:

• The Sahel area: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
• West Africa: Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, and Togo.
• East Africa: Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan.

Application

If you might be eligible, apply no later than Friday, 06 March 2026, by finishing the net application type. Women and folks with disabilities are inspired to apply.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AAOSI Fellowships.