#237Check - Rapports sur la santé des médias sociaux

Social media can build and destroy at the same time. It should be used cautiously because in as much as it is very essential in natural disaster management, it can also provoke disinformation as concerned to hazards. Hence institutions and scientists should be scrupulous in the information they pick online. 

In May 2023, cholera cases in Yaounde peaked, with the capital city reported at some point to have recorded up to 50 cases daily. Among primary causes of this disease, are polluted water sources and contaminated foodstuff. The epidemic is …

Sur le plan mondial comme sur le plan national, le débat sur  les conséquences du changement climatique est d’actualité. Toutefois, il est entaché par la propagation de fausses informations qui sapent les efforts visant à faire face à cette crise. …

Le 25 juillet 2023, un tragique incident a eu lieu à Ngaoundéré, où une femme et trois enfants ont perdu la vie à la suite de l’effondrement d’un immeuble en construction de quatre étages dans le quartier Baladji 1. Deux …

Par Chancelin Wabo Aujourd’hui, pour réaliser des performances de croissance, il faut prendre en compte les changements climatiques qui affectent tous les secteurs de développement. Aucun continent n’est à l’abri et le continent africain est particulièrement vulnérable à la variabilité …

It's no doubt the social media has been at the center stage of misinformation, mal information, disinformation and even more so fake news. This report however has attempted to determine the rate to which those on the social media space react to the information received on social media plus how this information affects them.

Par Mathias Mouendé Ngamo La bataille pour l’accès à l’eau, aux ressources halieutiques et agricoles amplifiées par le réchauffement climatique sont au cœur des affrontements intercommunautaires entre arabe Choa et Mousgoum dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun. Dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord …

July 22, 2023 – it is a wet Friday evening in Bonaberi, Douala, Cameroon’s largest city, and the air is filled with music and chants. “Small thing pick am, small thing pick am”, a group of young people sing along …

By Petiuh Frederick Tandah, AFF Cameroon Cohort 7 Fellow. There has been a significant increase in the practice of nonprofessional Journalism ( citizen Journalism)  in the Northwest region of Cameroon since 2016 which has registered both negative and positive effects …

Techtarget.com defines Social media as a collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication, community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. According to DATAREPORTAL  as of January 2021, there were 9.15 million internet users in Cameroon. The number of …

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