Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, came to power in September 2022 following a military coup that ousted interim ...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims. We investigated.

IN SHORT: Videos claiming that smartwatches emit “dangerous levels” of electromagnetic radiation are simply false. While telecommunication technologies do emit radiation, all available evidence ...

A spokesperson for South African political party the Democratic Alliance claimed cleaners at the country’s parliament earned R30,000 a month, more than rural teachers. In fact, parliament’s cleaners ...

Tensions between South Africa and the new US administration have made headlines in the early weeks of 2025. Early in February, US president Donald Trump took to social media claiming that South Africa ...

Chidoka was correct about the pace of Nigeria’s population growth, increased debt repayments, police funding in South Africa, and Nigeria’s difficulties in weaning itself off commodity exports.

IN SHORT: While Trump has issued a series of executive orders, there is no proof that he has specifically ordered the children of Nigerian politicians to leave the country. Since retaking office in ...

A former Lagos governor claimed that December 2024 remittances from Nigeria’s diaspora were equivalent to a whopping 4% of the country’s GDP. The data says otherwise. The former governor based the ...

If 2024 is remembered as the year of elections, 2025 may be the year of the aftermath. Misinformation thrives in times of uncertainty, and it doesn’t look like new governments, climate disasters or ...

The many related technologies known as artificial intelligence, or AI, may have felt inescapable in 2024. Countless news articles have provided breathless coverage of new developments, and debates ...

IN SHORT: A disturbing video of two naked women being assaulted by a group of men has been circulated widely on social media, with the claim it shows South African women killed by Nigerian men. But ...