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.

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 ...

“Hippos are the mammals that kill the most people in Africa, yet their diet consists of only grass,” reads a meme going around Facebook in South Africa. “If hippos don’t kill people for food, why do ...

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 ...

Driver education company Zutobi told TV channel eNCA that its recent study had found South Africa – with a safety score of just 3.41 out of 10 – to be the world’s most dangerous country to drive in.

An interesting – or, more likely, disturbing – fact: this November will mark the 16th anniversary of load shedding in South Africa. The country has been experiencing electricity problems since ...

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.

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 April 2023, Nigeria granted provisional approval for the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Ghana. Developed by the University of Oxford, R21 is ...

Social grants are vital in South Africa. But the president mistook the number of grants for the number of beneficiaries. By using a lower baseline of people employed in 1994, Ramaphosa claimed more ...