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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a New York house belonging to former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and ...

IN SHORT: The scam has been debunked before – but there is seemingly no end to its mutation and re-invention. Unicef is not giving away money through the so-called Unicef African Foundation. Learn how ...

Africa Check, the continent’s pioneering fact-checking organisation, has been debunking falsehoods and promoting information credibility since 2012. We have four offices across the continent: in ...

IN SHORT: New Zimbabwean legislation raised the retirement age for some civil servants in 2025. This doesn’t apply in South Africa, as some social media posts suggest. It is a photo of a genuine ...

IN SHORT: A video has been circulating online with the claim it shows Nigerians in Niger protesting against a French military base. But it is from August 2023, during a pro-coup rally in Niger.

IN SHORT: A claim is circulating on Facebook, saying that Nigeria’s northern governors have rejected English as the medium of instruction in their schools. Niger state governor Mohammed Bago has ...

IN SHORT: With February 2025 elections for the African Union Commission chairperson looming, a graphic with a claim that Kenya’s candidate Raila Odinga is set to drop out of the race to focus on his ...

IN SHORT: According to Facebook users in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria has unveiled a new N5,000 note that bears the face of president Bola Tinubu. But this is not true and the image was ...

IN SHORT: Several social media users have attributed a statement that suggests internal struggles within the Nigerian presidency to vice president Kashim Shettima. But there is no proof of this ...

EN BREF - La légende de cette publication est trompeuse. Ces images montrent une conférence de presse tenue le 7 janvier 2025 au port autonome d’Abidjan à la suite de l'accostage du navire Zimrida qui ...