Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims. We ...

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.

For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially. Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Police Service's latest crime statistics covering October to December 2024 recorded 6,953 murders, a 9.8% decrease from the same period in 2023. Of these, 961 victims were women, meaning around 10 ...

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 ...

The tweet’s claim that there are 1.8 million white and 30 million black people of working age in South Africa is understated. The country has 40.2 million working age people, 2.84 million (7%) of them ...