President William Ruto used his third state of the nation address to claim major progress in his first term. We dug into the ...

Africa Check corrected its verdict that she was wrong to claim that Johannesburg spends less on maintenance than any other ...

Fellows from Algeria, Lesotho, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda wrapped up a two-week programme aimed at boosting information ...

IN SHORT: A video posted on social media appears to show a man in a Tanzanian police uniform setting fire to a large campaign poster of the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan. But analysis shows ...

IN SHORT: According to a post on Facebook, US president Donald Trump said he was considering granting Biafra its independence to end insecurity in Nigeria. But there is no evidence to support the ...

IN SHORT: A message circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp claims that Sasol is accepting applications as part of a large learnership and training programme for 2025, with stipends of up to R15,000 and ...

IN SHORT: After Donald Trump accused Nigeria of allowing Christian persecution, without giving any evidence for this, social media posts have claimed US airstrikes caused explosions in Kaduna in ...

West Africa receives the largest share, at about 37.3%.

IN SHORT: A video which has gained popularity on various social media platforms in early 2024 is a doctored version of a 2009 interview in which Eminem made no mention of South African politics. A ...

IN SHORT: An online message from 2021 has resurfaced in Kenya claiming that all WhatsApp calls will be recorded, social media monitored, and that “devices will connect to the ministry system”. But ...

South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. Politicians often bandy about claims about employment in an attempt to score political points. When the claims sound too good (or ...