For a week, Africa Check, the continent’s leading organisation in information integrity and resilience, strengthened Kenya’s media, research ...

South Sudanese who sank their hard-earned money into a “US venture capital firm” promising breathtaking returns are worried. They have reason to be – there are many signs that Silicone Valley Shares ...

As president Cyril Ramaphosa and members of parliament debated the state of the nation, various figures were shared to show gains, or a lack thereof. Those claims will likely be put to the test due to ...

Africa Check is a non-profit organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. Africa needed an organisation dedicated to holding public figures accountable for ...

In 2025, Africa Check investigated over 20 scams circulating online in Nigeria, from Facebook pages impersonating popular commercial banks to fake money-doubling investment opportunities. The risks of ...

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 ...

Veteran South African politician Zille clashed with radio host Anele Mdoda, making claims about water infrastructure in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We tested them for accuracy. Zille was correct about ...

The dust has not quite settled on the country's general election, as tribunals set up to resolve disputes over the vote have begun their work. We look at how the petition system works. Published on 11 ...

The Organization for the Advancement of Nigerians claimed that Nigerians are the most educated immigrants in the US. We checked their claim. US president Donald Trump is misinformed about Africans, ...

The hunting of a black rhino in Namibia, the illegal killing of a lion in Zimbabwe and a controversial “driven hunt” in South Africa’s Limpopo province have ignited a fractious debate about trophy ...

In mid-2025, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) updated how it calculates gross domestic product or GDP, changing the base year from 2010 to 2019. Even so, the new figure fell short 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 ...