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Africa Check and the European Union equip Kenya's media, researchers, diplomats, civil society and public officials to build defence against foreign information manipulation

For a week, Africa Check, the continent’s leading organisation in information integrity and resilience, strengthened Kenya’s media, research ...
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LIVE REPORT: Tracking the disinformation circulating during anti-migrant protests in South Africa

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.
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South Africa’s home affairs department NOT offering cash reward for ‘anyone who can catch and bring [in] an illegal foreign national’

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 ...