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

IN SHORT: Authorities in South Sudan say a viral document claiming the country has expelled the United States ambassador and shuttered its embassy due to visa disputes is inauthentic. They say ...

The global health body is drafting guidelines on how countries could cooperate to respond to future pandemics. It has been a controversial process. We break down some key talking points about the ...

IN SHORT: Old claims from 2023 have resurfaced in January 2025, repeating news reports that the South African government had imposed new race-based regulations on exports that would devastate 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.

As in other places, fears in South Africa centred on the use of “deepfakes” to share “highly realistic fake videos or audio recordings”, as the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa ...

South Africa’s May 2024 elections were widely acknowledged as pivotal for the country. After 30 years in power, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority and is working with ...

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 ...

Nigeria’s health ministry is correct that over 200 million girls and women around the world have survived FGM. The ministry’s claim that Nigeria accounts for about a third of that estimate is however ...

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.

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 ...