As president Cyril Ramaphosa and members of parliament debated the state of the nation, various figures were shared to show ...

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Info Finder is a carefully selected collection of facts and sources on key topics. The English version of the tool covers Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Zimbabwe. The Department of Basic ...

This guide, published by Africa Check in cooperation with the Institute for Security Studies, explains what a reader needs to know to understand crime statistics and a short history of crime stats in ...

Africa Check is a non-profit organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. Africa needed an organisation dedicated to holding public figures accountable for ...

No, US lawmaker Riley Moore did not say Biafra’s secession would be inevitable if US failed to protect Christians in Nigeria ...

In a bid to retain power in the only province it governs and appeal to voters nationally, the Democratic Alliance has been keen to highlight its track record in the Western Cape. While the latest ...

Controversy over Nigeria’s census figures is nothing new. Accusations that the country’s official population figures had been rigged date back to the 1950s and have continued unabated under military ...

“Is Johannesburg, seriously, the largest man-made forest in the world?” It is a question Talk Radio 702 host Jenny Crwys-Williams put to Africa Check's Southern Africa Editor, Julian Rademeyer, during ...

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Our values guide how we work together to achieve impact. We act with integrity, collaborate with respect, honour partnerships, and encourage impactful innovation. Allwell Okpi joined Africa Check as ...