A message sent to Africa Check by subscribers to our WhatsApp lines claims that a company called “Sibanye Water” is offering ...

The fourth edition of the Africa Facts summit, scheduled for 1-2 October 2025 in Dakar, Senegal, will bring together ...

IN SHORT: The graphic claims YouTuber Lynn Ngugi said activist Rose Njeri collaborated with Estonian hackers and Boniface ...

A TikTok video shows a photo of Kenya’s deputy inspector general (DIG) of police Eliud Lagat, who stepped aside from his ...

A video posted on TikTok shows US president Donald Trump apparently saying: “President Ruto is stealing and killing Kenyans.

A post circulating on Facebook claims that Rwandan president Paul Kagame is critically ill in an intensive care unit (ICU) in ...

A document circulating on Facebook appears to be a statement from Kenya’s former prime minister and Orange Democratic ...

A post on Facebook claims that Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s former chief of army staff, escaped an attack by Boko Haram in early ...

A graphic posted on the social media platform X on 19 June 2025 is designed to look like a breaking-news alert from the Star, a Kenyan newspaper. It ...

Old news We conducted a Google reverse image search of keyframes from the video. The results showed that the video first appeared online in 2023. An internet search for “Alaba market demolished” ...

IN SHORT: A viral image, mimicking the weekend edition of Uganda’s New Vision newspaper, calls president Yoweri Museveni the “worst dictator”. But the front page is fake and should be ignored.