The African countries with the highest literacy rates include Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea, and South Africa. Seychelles has a nearly universal literacy rate (96%), while Equatorial Guinea (94%) and ...
Neither Johannesburg Water nor the National Institute for Communicable Diseases has released any information about a recent cholera outbreak. In April 2024, Johannesburg Water addressed an old video ...
Gautam Adani wants to use his conglomerate to take over Kenya's main airport. We fact-check the Kenyan government's ...
The Nigerian Fact-Checkers’ Coalition (NFC) has opened its situation rooms for the Edo state governorship election, which is ...
IN SHORT: South African bank Capitec is hiring for several positions via an unverified link, according to a number of social media posts. But it’s a scam – Capitec advertises jobs on its career’s page ...
IN SHORT: According to social media posts, a common type of grass can reverse kidney failure “within three months”. But this is false and dangerous information. Kidney failure requires medically ...
IN SHORT: What looked like the front page of the Daily Nation circulated on Facebook in Kenya in September 2024, claiming that the Teachers Service Commission had bribed leaders of the Kenya Union of ...
IN SHORT: Several posts on Facebook claim that the Nigerian government has jacked up value added tax (VAT) from 7.5% to 10%. This is not true, according to the country's finance minister. A post on ...
IN SHORT: False stories about the spread of mpox have flooded Kenyan social media. A memo and graphic claiming that staff at the Nation Media Group have been infected is one of them. What appears to ...