For a week, Africa Check, the continent’s leading organisation in information integrity and resilience, strengthened Kenya’s media, research ...
Anti-immigrant groups have set 30 June 2026 as a “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. This is not a government directive, and it has no effect on anyone’s immigration status.
IN SHORT: A poster circulating on social media in South Africa claims that anyone who “catch and bring an illegal foreign national” to the department of home affairs will receive R250 per “illegal ...
In 2026, anti-migrant groups have organised dozens of protests and demonstrations across South Africa, calling for stricter action against undocumented migration. The country has a well-documented ...
Established in 2017, the Africa Facts Network is a growing community of 58 fact-checking organisations working across more than 35 countries on the continent. From North to South, East to West, and ...
Claims that South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo or even India can lay claim to the unwanted title of "rape capital of the world” have been doing the rounds for well over a decade. In 2000, ...
IN SHORT: Videos promising a 'new secret investment' project by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, have several visual, audio and contextual clues that the clips are deepfakes. South Africa's public ...
Africa’s most populous country holds elections – including for president – in February 2023. So far, we’ve spotted 10 types of false information in the campaigns. Published on 10 January 2023 ...
IN SHORT: A series of popular social media posts claim a photo shows Nelson Mandela, billionaire philanthropist George Soros and Geordin Hill-Lewis, newly elected leader of South Africa’s Democratic ...
Definitions of poverty vary according to who is doing the measuring, be it the World Bank, governments, aid agencies or nongovernmental organisations, or people who live in conditions of poverty. The ...
In mid-2025, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) updated how it calculates gross domestic product or GDP, changing the base year from 2010 to 2019. Even so, the new figure fell short of ...
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