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

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 attention shifts to Nigerian president Bola Tinubu’s achievements ahead of 2027 elections, his power minister, Adebayo Adelabu, has been eager to highlight improvements in the troubled energy ...

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.

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 ...

The police released South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 on 31 July 2020, a month earlier than expected. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS), a South African policy institute, welcomed the ...

IN SHORT: A video which has gained popularity on various social media platforms in early 2024 is a doctored version of a 2009 interview in which Eminem made no mention of South African politics. A ...

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 ...

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 ...