Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, came to power in September 2022 following a military coup that ousted interim ...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims. We ...

As the country debates THAT White House meeting, we took a closer look at some of the claims traded in the Oval Office.

For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan ...

Tensions between South Africa and the new US administration have made headlines in the early weeks of 2025. Early in February, US president Donald Trump took to social media claiming that South Africa ...

The party was correct to claim that South Africa’s three wealthiest billionaires own more wealth than the poorest 26 million South Africans. Claims that an average of 20,000 murders are committed each ...

IN SHORT: South Africa’s upcoming general election has seen the resurgence of an old rumour – that the vote of anyone who doesn’t vote is “automatically” given to the ruling African National Congress.

Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...

IN SHORT: A disturbing video of two naked women being assaulted by a group of men has been circulated widely on social media, with the claim it shows South African women killed by Nigerian men. But ...

Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards are now open to journalists, journalism students and professional fact-checkers. This is the longest-running awards programme celebrating ...