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 about cancer, vaccines and the Pope’s death. We investigated. The pastor advised ...

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

A prominent doctor and influencer, Aproko Doctor, sought to show how US aid cuts would hurt Nigeria’s HIV/Aids fight. Were all his figures accurate? We took a look. Aproko Doctor claimed that Nigeria ...

Tensions between South Africa and the new US administration have made headlines in the early weeks of 2025. Early in February, US president Donald Trump took to social media claiming that South Africa ...

Chidoka was correct about the pace of Nigeria’s population growth, increased debt repayments, police funding in South Africa, and Nigeria’s difficulties in weaning itself off commodity exports.

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 ...

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 packed calendar of controversial events means that political spin, AI-generated content, vaccine conspiracies and job scams are all on the rise. Published on 17 January 2025 Kenya will see a number ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: South Africans, ignore a viral video with dubbed audio of billionaire Johann Rupert appearing to offer an investment opportunity too good to be true. It is and it’s a scam. “Today is your ...

While the latest official unemployment rate for the Western Cape is 20.2%, that doesn’t mean that “eight out of 10” people in the province are employed. And it’s misleading to say that the province ...