President William Ruto used his third state of the nation address to claim major progress in his first term. We dug into the ...

Fellows from Algeria, Lesotho, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda wrapped up a two-week programme aimed at boosting information ...

Africa Check corrected its verdict that she was wrong to claim that Johannesburg spends less on maintenance than any other ...

Anambra’s 2021 governor election saw issues related to administration and security, and electoral malpractice in the form of ...

IN SHORT: A message circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp claims that Sasol is accepting applications as part of a large learnership and training programme for 2025, with stipends of up to R15,000 and ...

IN SHORT: According to several Facebook posts, Nigeria’s senate president Godswill Akpabio told US president Donald Trump to focus on the US instead of Nigeria. But the state attributed to Akpabio has ...

Info Finder is a carefully selected collection of facts and sources on key topics. The English version of the tool covers Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Zimbabwe.

No, Britain’s land laws no model for expropriation in South Africa – monarch doesn’t own ‘all the land’ Does the British monarch own all the land in England? John Hlophe, the parliamentary leader of ...

A photograph of a woman dressed in orange struggling with another woman in police uniform has been widely shared in South ...

Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other low-effort forms of information deception. Human rights organisation Amnesty International ...

30,000 children “trafficked” into the sex trade every year in South Africa; 30,000 children “currently” being prostituted in South Africa. Human trafficking is rife in South Africa, if recent press ...

IN SHORT: An online message from 2021 has resurfaced in Kenya claiming that all WhatsApp calls will be recorded, social media monitored, and that “devices will connect to the ministry system”. But ...