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Cedrick Irakoze
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Senior Copy Editor, PesaCheck
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Biography
Currently Chief Editorial Translator, I manage a team of editorial translators, journalists, and editors fighting mis/disinformation in French, English, Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Swahili, and Tigrinya, I cover projects from 16 countries. Previously Senior Copy Editor, a bilingual journalist/writer (French/ English), of Code for Africa’s PesaCheck covering 14+ countries from Anglophone East African countries to Francophone West Africa and the Sahel. I have a huge experience in writing/covering matters touching Burundi, Mali, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania, Rwanda, Madagascar, Senegal, and DRC. I am a published fiction book author who won a prize from the University of Burundi.
Health, Societies , Politics, Culture, Finance
If the books are posting odds on it, I've likely got an opinion.
Content
By Cedrick Irakoze Verified| Medium@ Writing and editing for an international audience is an interesting job. I like how they both constantly call for more action, day in and day out. Even as an editor who looks very busy receiving, polishing, validating, accepting, rejecting, and editing pitches and work from other journalists, my thirst for writing cannot be easily quenched by a few formal, sometimes necessary serious pieces full of data, figures, tables, graphs we mostly produce on the organisations’ request
By Cedrick Irakoze Verified| Medium@ Disclosure: I am frank. I tried hard to retract this statement and apologize as some of my pals wanted me to do. I failed. I am not denying, for a second, the goodness of some people, the kindness that goes beyond expectation, the love expecting nothing in return, the 'planting trees in whose shades people do not plan to sit' ideology, the Ubuntu. I am informed. I am a big fan of humanity and brotherhood. But no, it ain't enough. Some people called me names after I said the above statement
By Cedrick Irakoze Verified| andariya.com@ This post is also available in: Arabic A typical Burundian woman is referred to as “Umunarugo”, literally translating to “the home keeper”. Such ideology and many more similar ones have been part of the traditional beliefs of ordinary family life in Burundi. The primary task of a woman in a family was to look after her children, tidy the house, feed the family members, and take care of the husband
Company Info
PesaCheck
Citizens need accurate information to make sound decisions. PesaCheck is Africa’s largest indigenous fact-checking organisation, debunking misleading claims and deciphering the often confusing numbers quoted by public figures in 16 African countries.
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Founded: 2016