Factsheets

This factsheet provides an overview of assault and sexual crime trends between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015 as recorded by the South Afric...

Data on the economic significance and conservation benefits of hunting in African countries is limited and polarises a fractious debate. Thi...

The United Nations has listed 29 parties in seven African countries that recruited and used children in armed conflict in 2014. How many chi...

Using a new method, Nigeria's official statistics agency announced that unemployment stood at 7.5% for the first quarter of 2015. Previously

From June 2015 children under the age of 18 travelling to or from South Africa will have to carry their full birth certificate. This factshe...

The world knows that hundreds of girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents from a school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria on April 14. But...

Roughly 8,300 people died in political conflict in sub-Saharan Africa in the first two months of 2015, largely as a result of Boko Haram act...

With elections slated for 14 sub-Saharan African states in 2015, Africa Check looks ahead at the polls for executive leadership in five vola...

Six months after an attempted coup, voters in Lesotho will turn out for early legislative elections on 28 February.

The eviction of Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) MPs from this week’s State of the Nation Address raised a number of questions surrounding the...

With a week to go before polling, Nigeria's election commission has announced a six-week delay in voting. Africa Check looks at the issues a...

Boko Haram militants attacked the remote northern Nigerian towns of Baga and Doro Gowon earlier this month killing scores of people. What do...