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

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

Official campaigns for Nigeria’s 2023 general elections – expected to be among the most important in its recent democratic history – kicked off on 28 September 2022. On 25 February 2023, tens of ...

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 ...

As one of South Africa’s most pressing problems, rape levels in the country get discussed and reported on often. And as a result, many of the statistics used cross our desks here at Africa Check.

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.

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 ...

“With an estimated minimum of 15million illegal immigrants in South Africa, according to SA Home affairs (probably a lot more) that makes up between 20% to 25% of our population,” reads a tweet by a ...

IN SHORT: There were widespread protests in Kinshasa in February 2024 and the largest were centred outside the embassies of the US, UK and France. But rumours that the French embassy was set on fire ...

1. Who owns the land in South Africa? The department of rural development and land reform has released two land audits. The first, published in 2013, covered state-owned land. It found that 14% of ...

IN SHORT: According to a message on Facebook, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a New York house belonging to former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and found $5 billion in cash and gold ...