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

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims about cancer, vaccines and the Pope’s death. We investigated. The pastor advised ...

Anti-immigrant groups have set 30 June 2026 as a “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. This is not a government directive, and it has no effect on anyone’s immigration status.

IN SHORT: A poster circulating on social media in South Africa claims that anyone who “catch and bring an illegal foreign national” to the department of home affairs will receive R250 per “illegal ...

In 2026, anti-migrant groups have organised dozens of protests and demonstrations across South Africa, calling for stricter action against undocumented migration. The country has a well-documented ...

Established in 2017, the Africa Facts Network is a growing community of 58 fact-checking organisations working across more than 35 countries on the continent. From North to South, East to West, and ...

Nigeria's Land Use Act from 1978 abolished all existing freehold systems. This factsheet explains how land is secured in Nigeria and the rules for transfer and succession that apply. In colonial ...

IN SHORT: Videos promising a 'new secret investment' project by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, have several visual, audio and contextual clues that the clips are deepfakes. South Africa's public ...

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 ...