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: 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 ...

In Q1 of 2025 the largest contributors to Ghana’s GDP are Services, Industry, and Agriculture, accounting for 46.8%, 29.7%, and 23.5% of GDP respectively.

Do around 40,000 white families own 80% of the land in South Africa? It is a claim that has been widely circulated since Andile Mngxitama, a Member of Parliament and “commissar for land and agrarian ...

In 2016, and for many years before that, South Africa has been placed on stage 6 of Genocide Watch’s “Ten Stages of Genocide”. This stage - called polarisation - is followed by the stages of ...

South Africans continue to struggle to make ends meet, with a recent survey showing that 70% have not seen their income improve since 2020. The country’s members of parliament (MPs) are unlikely to ...

30,000 children “trafficked” into the sex trade every year in South Africa; 30,000 children “currently” being prostituted in South Africa. Human trafficking is rife in South Africa, if recent press ...