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

URGENT: Go to your medicine cabinet and find your multivitamin or other supplements that you are currently taking,” begins a ...

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

Multiple posts on Facebook claim that the sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar died on 29.  “Breaking News: Sultan ...

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 ...

The declaration highlighted politically sensitive environments and public distrust of the media are of concern for African fact-checkers.

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.

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 ...

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: Kenya’s national assembly speaker Moses Wetang’ula did not say some government officials wanted to remove him from office over his push for Luhya community unity. This graphic claiming ...

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 ...