COMMENT: Takeaways from a year of carrying the fact-checking flag
Africa Check’s deputy editor in Kenya conducted three training sessions and participated in eight panels on fact-checking across East Africa...
Africa Check’s deputy editor in Kenya conducted three training sessions and participated in eight panels on fact-checking across East Africa...
We’re said to live in a post-fact world, where there are no longer any gatekeepers of truth. But it’s more a world of openly free-flowing fa...
The director of the news agency African Daily Voice clarifies that his website is not responsible for several false stories that Africa Chec...
Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan says corruption has worsened since Muhammadu Buhari took over, using the country’s rank on the ...
Politicsweb has challenged the conclusion that the data needed to calculate a farm murder rate simply doesn’t exist by producing its own fac...
There’s been no wedding. But comedian Eric Omondi says he’s already married, in Kenyan law, to fiancee Chantal Grazioli because they’ve been...
Was Nairobi’s landmark Kenyatta International Convention Centre inspired by a donkey’s penis, as a veteran architect has claimed?
South Africa’s statistician-general Risenga Maluleke explains how Stats SA estimates the number of migrants living in the country - and why ...
Nigeria has experienced several minor earthquakes in the past century. But the capital’s emergency services said there’s “no likelihood” of
Few would dispute that many young people in Kenya are out of work. But just how bad is the problem?
When false news spreads on Facebook, people and even countries can face real harm. The network’s new fact-checking programme now has Africa ...
A prominent South African economist says the country is not actually in recession, but his argument has few takers.
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