by Sentinel Project | Jun 3, 2025 | Conferences, Misinformation
Our recent surveys conducted in South Sudan reveal that communication practices, levels of trust, and misinformation are all contributing factors to the country’s ongoing conflict. The survey, which involved 1,808 respondents from Juba, Yei, Bor, Malakal,...
by Sentinel Project | May 6, 2025 | Kijiji Cha Amani, Misinformation
In this short conversation, the Sentinel Project’s James Kataliko, Project Lead for the Kijiji Cha Amani Project in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), discusses the dangers of misinformation in a conflict environment, the challenges of combatting...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 30, 2025 | Kijiji Cha Amani, Misinformation
Rumours and misinformation can fuel fear and tensions, and even spark conflict, particularly in regions already experiencing war and displacement. The Sentinel Project’s Kijiji Cha Amani supports access to reliable information in the northeastern region of the...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 30, 2025 | Hagiga Wahid, Misinformation
South Sudan has been mired in conflict for decades, its people caught in a relentless cycle of violence, many carrying deep scars and grappling with despair. At the heart of this crisis lies a pervasive lack of access to accurate information. Misinformation and...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 6, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Technology
How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us to establish whether a new piece of information is true or false? What is the harm in repeatedly receiving incorrect information? It seems as though it is becoming harder...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 5, 2014 | Kenya
This month Nairobi, Mombasa and Garissa have been identified as areas where terror attacks are imminent while the Northern region, which covers Wajir, Mandera and Garissa and the Tana Delta region, was singled out as an area where incidences are primarily ethnic or...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 10, 2014 | General News, Kenya
January has seen a campaign of violence carried out by groups affiliated with or connected to Somalia’s al-Shabaab movement. Nightclub bombings, attempts to strike key infrastructure or transport sites and attacks on police appear to maintain their momentum....
by Sentinel Project | Feb 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
It is often noted by observers of the continued violence in Burma that the crippling poverty in the country’s western-most Rakhine State is part of the root cause of the anti-Rohingya campaign. Lack of hope, historical animosity, and other grim conditions in...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 27, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
This morning Canadian members of the Sentinel Project met with our new Kenyan staff members for a day-long orientation facilitated by our partners at iHub Research in Nairobi. iHub Research is a leader in technology research not only in Kenya but also all across...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 25, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
Between August 2012 and January 2013, the Tana Delta area of eastern Kenya experienced a series of massacres between the Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups. The killings took the lives of an estimated 166 people and displaced tens of thousands from their homes. These...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 10, 2014 | General News
The Sentinel Project has finalized an assessment on the risk of mass atrocities in Sri Lanka. Almost five years after the end of the civil war, the assessment reflects that the mass atrocity risk in Sri Lanka remains high and addresses some of the underlying sources...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 2, 2014 | General News, Team Announcements, Technology
Iranian pro-democracy demonstrators in 2009 used social media to organize and document their protests. Here, an opposition supporter films a protest on her mobile phone. (Source) Technology is changing the nature of human rights We’re excited to offer the next...
