Kenyan deputy president Kithure Kindiki has threatened to expose president William Ruto’s alleged involvement in the 2007 and ...

A poster, sent to Africa Check by subscribers to our WhatsApp lines, claims that the South African Police Service (SAPS) is ...

Next batch of RTMC traffic learnership training intake 2026,” starts the text on a flyer in videos doing the rounds on ...

Some Facebook posts claim a video shows young people in Bodinga, a town in Sokoto state in northwestern Nigeria, assaulting ...

Kenya’s interior minister Kipchumba Murkomen’s wife, Gladys Wanjiru, has threatened to walk out of her marriage over her ...

On 22 August 2026, Kenya’s speaker of the national assembly Moses Wetang’ula sparked controversy after claiming that State ...

Scarce data is just one obstacle to combatting sexual violence. An expert said we should also address harmful social attitudes about gender, the lack of access to comprehensive sex education, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In June 2025, president Bola Tinubu signed four new tax reform bills into law, bringing big changes to how taxes are managed in Nigeria. After the signing, Zacch Adedeji, the executive chairperson of ...