[PRESS RELEASE] Continent’s top fact-checkers awarded at eighth annual African Fact-Checking Awards
Fact-checkers from Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Senegal took the top honours in the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards.
Ashraf Hendricks
ANALYSIS: South African minority party right to be worried over North West crime stats, but lockdown skewed numbers
A Freedom Front Plus leader in North West said the murder rate for the province nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021. Is he right?
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Know the Facts Get the Vax – helping people make better choices about Covid and vaccines
Africa Check’s Know the Facts Get the Vax multimedia series answers common questions about Covid vaccines.
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ANALYSIS: As Tanzania changes tack on Covid-19, leaders have role to play in pushing accurate information
Tanzanians have struggled to keep up with policy changes as the country goes from no plans for Covid vaccines to pushing mass vaccination.
PRESS RELEASE: New international study shows fact-checks significantly reduce belief in misinformation
The comparative study is among the first to examine fact-checking effectiveness from a cross-country perspective.
PEDRO PARDO / AFP
CONSERVATION CHECK: Yes, more elephants being born tuskless because of poaching
African elephants' contact with poachers is causing dramatic changes to their physiology.
STEFAN HEUNIS / AFP
EXPLAINER: What you need to know about Nigeria’s resident doctors and why they strike so frequently
What are Nigerian doctors' grievances? And why do they leave the country in such high numbers?
Africa Check launches Fact Ambassador programme
We’ve launched a new programme to spread accurate information to a wider audience across our continent – welcome to our Fact Ambassadors!
ANALYSIS: Snappy anti-lockdown poster misrepresents Covid-19 and vaccination death rates
“If one death out of 10k Covid cases shut down the country shouldn’t one death out of 10k vaccines shut down the program?” This slogan from ...
Buckle up! We fell down the White Spiritual Boy Trust rabbit hole
Charges were laid at a Johannesburg police station in April, accusing South African president Cyril Ramaphosa of serious crimes from rackete...
Getting fact-checkers' methods into the curriculum: the six Cs of misinformation literacy
A new study argues for an expanded definition of media literacy.
Governments in Africa have doubled ‘false news’ laws, to little effect. Another way is possible
Since 2016, the 11 countries we studied nearly doubled their laws and regulations on misinformation. There is little to show for it.
Quizzes
Info Finder quiz: crime and justice in Africa
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Info Finder quiz: health in Africa
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, we should be more health-conscious. Take our quiz and find out how much you know about health in Africa....
Info Finder quiz: African economies
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