Emmanuel Uduaghan's former commissioner for information made an eye-catching claim about Uduaghan's health achievements.

Kenyan president William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga have settled on lawmaker Junet Mohammed as cabinet secretary ...

A country’s economy is often looked at in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the total value of all goods and services it produces in a year.

The Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town was founded in 1825, making it almost 200 years old. Other old museums in Africa include the Egyptian Museum, first built in 1835, the Bardo National Museum ...

Nigeria's new education minister makes several claims and statistics about education in the country. We checked their accuracy.

IN SHORT: Several video clips of Fikile Mbalula, the secretary general of South Africa’s largest political party, criticising party president Cyril Ramaphosa are deceptively edited. Mbalula was ...

The declaration highlighted politically sensitive environments, vulnerable and offline communities, linguistic diversity, public distrust of the media and resource challenges as some of the areas of ...

IN SHORT: The claim that a high court in southwestern Nigeria has ordered Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, to pay a fine of N500 million (about US$304,000) for making a defamatory statement ...

IN SHORT: A viral video on X claims to show Kenya’s second president being inducted into Freemasonry. But the video actually shows Moi being honoured by the Order of St John. A video circulating on X ...

Domestic violence refers to abusive behaviour by someone the victim lives with or is in a close relationship with. In 2021 South Africa expanded the definition beyond physical, sexual and emotional ...