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Kenyan president William Ruto says he has ‘a story to tell’. Do the facts agree?

President William Ruto used his third state of the nation address to claim major progress in his first term. We dug into the ...
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Africa Check fellows graduate, bullish about future of fact-checking and media literacy in Africa in AI age

Fellows from Algeria, Lesotho, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda wrapped up a two-week programme aimed at boosting information ...
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Yes, mayoral candidate Helen Zille was correct about infrastructure spending in South Africa’s metros

Africa Check corrected its verdict that she was wrong to claim that Johannesburg spends less on maintenance than any other ...
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No evidence of US airstrikes in Kaduna after US president’s claim of Christian persecution in Nigeria

IN SHORT: After Donald Trump accused Nigeria of allowing Christian persecution, without giving any evidence for this, social media posts have claimed US airstrikes caused explosions in Kaduna in ...