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.

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 ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: A graphic seemingly from Kenya’s Nation Africa claims that billionaire Bill Gates is seeking assurances from president William Ruto about a vaccine deal and could “demand a refund after ...

The Global Corruption Barometer Africa survey has detailed public opinion data on citizens’ views on corruption and direct experiences of bribery in Africa. A 2022 Afrobarometer survey found that 73% ...

A former Lagos governor claimed that December 2024 remittances from Nigeria’s diaspora were equivalent to a whopping 4% of the country’s GDP. The data says otherwise. The former governor based the ...

A newspaper article written by a former federal lawmaker advising Nigeria's new education minister makes several claims and statistics about education in the country. We checked their accuracy.

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 ...