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#OndoDecides2024: Fact-checking debate claims made by the two main candidates for the governor’s office
By: Africa Check 14th November 2024 Nigeria’s Ondo state goes to the polls on 16 November 2024 to elect a governor, with incumbent Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress... →
Hit or miss? Fact-checking former lawmaker Dakuku Peterside's statistics advising Nigeria's new education minister
By: Africa Check 12th November 2024 Nigeria's new education minister, Dr Tunji Alausa, is still getting used to the job after being appointed on 24 October 2024 following a cabinet... →
Did former governor Uduaghan ‘remarkably’ cut infant mortality in Nigeria’s Delta state by more than half, as glowing column claims?
By: Africa Check 5th November 2024 In a glowing column for the Nigerian newspaper This Day, Chike Ogeah, a former Delta state commissioner, praised the health record of former... →
Mind Matters: The Hidden Epidemic – Confronting South Africa's Mental Health Challenges
5th November 2024 South Africa faces a mental health crisis that remains largely hidden beneath layers of stigma, inadequate resources, and insufficient... →
Youth network launches a national Men Enough campaign to encourage men to embrace healthy masculinity
5th November 2024 To realise a gender-just and violence-free society, men need to unlearn toxic masculinity and be empowered to embrace healthy ideals of masculinity... →
The good, the bad and the ugly: South Africa's competition policy
4th November 2024 South Africa’s competition landscape is under intense scrutiny following the Competition Tribunal’s recent decision to block Vodacom’s R14-billion... →
50 fact-checking organisations in Africa sign pact on information integrity
By: Africa Check 1st November 2024 Fifty fact-checking organisations in Africa, with a presence in at least 30 countries, have signed a declaration to work together to tackle harmful... →
Basil February eulogy
31st October 2024 Basil February was born in Cape Town in 1943 and matriculated from Trafalgar High School in 1960 with five distinctions. Although his desire was... →
Missed call: Fact-checking Kenya’s overshadowed 2024 state of devolution address
By: Africa Check 25th October 2024 In early October 2024, the Kenyan political arena erupted with a spectacular falling-out between president William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi... →
No, photo of Somali man with gun not taken in South Africa
By: Africa Check 22nd October 2024 IN SHORT: A widely shared image of a man with a machine gun has been used to stoke xenophobic tensions in South Africa multiple times, including by... →
