ANALYSIS: Are IMF, World Bank to blame for Africa’s foreign debt burden?
African countries are charged astronomical interest rates when borrowing from international institutions while developed countries get sweet...
African countries are charged astronomical interest rates when borrowing from international institutions while developed countries get sweet...
In this briefing series, Full Fact’s Research Team and partners at Africa Check and Chequeado, draw on the latest academic evidence to expla...
Social media can be an open highway for false information. Dancan Bwire and Grace Gichuhi, researchers from our Nairobi office, look back on...
Africa Check’s Kenya deputy editor tackled health misinformation all through 2019. Here’s what he took away.
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A video of two small boys in a martial arts stance, tears running down their faces, has more than 10 million views on Twitter. We tracked it...
Fact-checkers need to move from ‘publish and pray’ to ‘publish and act’
As the world marks International Women’s Day, which this year is focused on pushing for better gender balance, we looked up some notable fac
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