IN SHORT: According to some Facebook posts, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said “Nigeria would have become a completely Islamized country” without Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the ...

IN SHORT: Shortly after the announcement of former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga’s death on 15 October 2025, some social media posts claimed that his older brother had been rushed to the hospital ...

IN SHORT: A video showing US president Donald Trump apparently urging Ugandans not to forgive their president, Yoweri Museveni, until he steps down and retires from politics has gone viral online.

IN SHORT: Some social media posts claim that the matriculation exam is no longer required for entry to tertiary institutions in Nigeria. However, the education ministry says this is not true. The ...

Veteran South African politician Zille clashed with radio host Anele Mdoda, making claims about water infrastructure in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We tested them for accuracy. Zille was correct about ...

IN SHORT: Even if type O blood was associated with lower levels of two “inflammation markers”, this would not be evidence of slower ageing. But to make matters worse, there’s no evidence that the ...

DAKAR. Ariel Gbaguidi, a journalist from Benin’s La Nation, won the award for fact-check of the year by a working journalist at the African Fact-Checking Awards ceremony held in Senegal on 2 October ...