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Are Nigerians buying the 22nd cheapest petrol in the world? Experts say this is a flawed and misleading comparison
Several newspapers recently reported that Nigeria has some of the cheapest petrol in the world. We took a closer look.
ANALYSIS: Unverifiable? M-Pesa, Kenya’s famous mobile money innovation has a beautiful story, but some claims are fuzzy
What could possibly be difficult about verifying simple claims about the economic impact of M-Pesa, a pioneering Kenyan innovation?
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Does Kenya have one of the highest suicide rates in Africa? What the data says
Kenya has many challenges when it comes to the quality of suicide data, including the lack of a suicide registry.
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US ambassador to Kenya Margaret 'Meg' Whitman ‘loves to muck around with data’ – but do her numbers pass the accuracy test?
The American envoy has been working hard to sell her current posting as an attractive investment destination.
Old claims about rape in South Africa still being shared online
Scarce data is just one obstacle to combatting sexual violence.