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

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: 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: 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 ...

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 ...

EN BREF - Les deux photographies n’ont aucun lien avec la Côte d’Ivoire et le Burkina Faso. Sur Facebook, la page Ensemble pour la paix au Faso a publié le 10 janvier 2025 un photomontage de deux ...

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 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: The Oyo state government has asked Nigerians to stop sharing a horrific old video of a kidnapping hideout, littered with dismembered human body parts. The video has been online for over 10 ...

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 ...