Ange Adihe Kasongo

founder and executive director Balobaki Check

Ange Adihe Kasongo is a journalist, author and trainer. The founder and executive director of Balobaki Check, an award-winning fact-checking, training and media literacy organization launched in 2022 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she is also co-author of the investigation into sexual abuse during the Ebola response in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2021. Ange worked for Agence France-Presse as a journalist in charge of fact-checking in the DRC between 2019 and 2020. Ange is the author of a book on disinformation and democracy during the election period in Congo, published in Paris by L'Harmattan.

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