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ANALYSIS: What you need to know about Nigeria's out-of-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states
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US ambassador to Kenya Margaret 'Meg' Whitman ‘loves to muck around with data’ – but do her numbers pass the accuracy test?
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GUIDE: How to verify a voice note from your phone
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Kenya president William Ruto misses mark in claiming country’s annual food import bill is KSh500 billion
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ANALYSIS: What you need to know about Nigeria's out-of-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states
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US ambassador to Kenya Margaret 'Meg' Whitman ‘loves to muck around with data’ – but do her numbers pass the accuracy test?
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GUIDE: How to verify a voice note from your phone
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Kenya president William Ruto misses mark in claiming country’s annual food import bill is KSh500 billion
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ANALYSIS: What you need to know about Nigeria's out-of-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states
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ANALYSIS: Nigeria's 2023 election, from the ballot box to the courtroom
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A cloudy outlook? What we are learning about election disinformation in Africa and what you can do about it
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Raising informed media consumers starts at school
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PRESS RELEASE: Mauritius to host the 2023 Africa Facts summit
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#NigeriaDecides2023: 10 disinformation trends in election season
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‘Careful saying that around her!’ Our researcher tells of her first year at Africa Check
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Expanding our Know the Facts Get the Vax campaign to five more African countries
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AfricaCheck@10: The challenges of working across Africa
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AfricaCheck@10: Current and past editors reflect on a steady mission, but with vastly expanded horizons
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How to read South Africa’s quarterly crime statistics after the Covid pandemic
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#10YearsOfFacts: Ten lessons we’ve learned fact-checking elections in African countries
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‘A time of crisis’: fact-checking South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2023 state of the nation address
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Has pandemic raised South Africans’ stress levels by 56%? And is cannabis the answer? Two claims in news article checked
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Did journalists’ TV ‘hangout’ get facts about healthcare in Nigeria right?
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Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
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Nairobi’s Covid-19 positive cases tie Kenyan president, health ministry and major media house in knots
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Six South African cities in top 20 of world’s ‘most dangerous’? Crime index based on website users’ opinions
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FACTSHEET: Understanding Nigeria's new varsity admission rules
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FACTSHEET: Excess deaths in South Africa explained
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FACTSHEET: How deaths are recorded in South Africa
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FACTSHEET: Vaccination gaps to blame as Nigeria battles surge in diphtheria
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FACTSHEET: Total grid collapse? Billions in losses? We answer 10 questions about load shedding in South Africa
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FACTSHEET: What you should know about the latest malaria vaccine and what it could mean for Nigeria
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FACTSHEET: ‘Back to the basics’ – seven questions about HIV and Aids answered
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FACTSHEET: ‘A disease nobody should die from’ – what you should know about the cholera outbreak in South Africa
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FACTSHEET: What you should know about the diphtheria outbreak in Nigeria
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Access to electricity higher than 36% in 1994, despite claims by South Africa’s ruling party
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Less than 12 million South Africans on social grants, not 18 million as often claimed
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No evidence for Kogi governor hopeful’s claim that state has Nigeria’s largest uranium deposits
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No, president Bola Tinubu didn’t inherit Nigeria’s highest inflation rate in 20 years
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Old claims about rape in South Africa still being shared online
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Beware false cancer cures from ‘Dr Gupta’ on Facebook
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No, quokkas don’t throw babies at predators, but won’t win ‘Best Mom’ award
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Beware of fake – and incendiary – Kenya Kwanza coalition manifesto
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HOAX ALERT: No, headache pills in Nigeria aren’t laced with the Machupo virus
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No, elephants don’t think people are ‘cute’ – in the wild they see us as a threat
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No, South Africa’s late Zulu king Zwelithini didn’t get a R71.3 million salary
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Still no evidence for #15MillionIllegalMigrants in South Africa
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How do Nigeria and Saudi Arabia compare for poverty and unemployment?
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South Africa’s economy contracts by 51% in the second quarter of 2020? Not so fast
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Disregard viral red circle eye test on WhatsApp, visit an eye doctor
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UNDEF-funded project teaches tricks of the fact-checking trade
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Harnessing the power of radio in Africa to fight Covid-19 misinformation
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Three lessons from fighting Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on community radio stations in Kenya
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Know the Facts Get the Vax – helping people make better choices about Covid and vaccines
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Coup in Niger leads to misleading claims about uranium exports to the West
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Zimbabwe election disinformation spreads on WhatsApp
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Did WHO-recommended ratio of doctors to patients, as former Nigerian senator claimed?
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Does Nigeria rank number one in open defecation worldwide? (Radio One 103.5 FM Lagos)
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Claims about education in Nigeria checked (Radio One 103.5 FM Lagos)
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The New LO: How To Handle The Internet (Part 4)
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The New LO: How To Handle The Internet (Part 3)
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The New LO: How To Handle The Internet (Part 2)
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