As white South Africans made headlines for entering the US as refugees, claims about their contribution to farming back home ...

The people of Anambra state in south-eastern Nigeria are set to elect a new governor on 8 November 2025.Election campaigning ...

According to a video circulating on Facebook, US president Donald Trump said Africa’s mineral resources belonged to his ...

South African billionaire Johann Rupert, US president Donald Trump (May 2025) There is no evidence to back billionaire Johann Rupert’s claim that undocumented foreigners are mainly behind farm murders ...

IN SHORT: Authorities in South Sudan say a viral document claiming the country has expelled the United States ambassador and shuttered its embassy due to visa disputes is inauthentic. They say ...

Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards are now open to journalists, journalism students and professional fact-checkers. This is the longest-running awards programme celebrating ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: Social media users claim that a video of a massive sinkhole was taken at the entrance of a tunnel in Hartbeespoort, a South African town. But this is false – the video shows a 2023 landslide ...

The global health body is drafting guidelines on how countries could cooperate to respond to future pandemics. It has been a controversial process. We break down some key talking points about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If 2024 is remembered as the year of elections, 2025 may be the year of the aftermath. Misinformation thrives in times of uncertainty, and it doesn’t look like new governments, climate disasters or ...