Kenyan deputy president Gachagua latest public official to repeat misleading education funding statistic
Rigathi Gachagua inaccurately claimed that education receives 27% of the national budget. The real figure is 15.2%.
Rigathi Gachagua inaccurately claimed that education receives 27% of the national budget. The real figure is 15.2%.
New laws are often the target of misinformation because of their political and economic impact. Here are tips to avoid these false claims.
Not all conferences are created equal, as one South African academic recently discovered, sharing her experience with Africa Check.
In 2018, we produced a factsheet tracking key health indicators in Nigeria over the course of a decade. What does the latest data tell us?
A national newspaper reported that 25 new cases had been confirmed in the north-central state. This is incorrect, health officials said.
Voice messages have many advantages, but they are also a tremendous source and channel for the dissemination of false information.
The outbreak of the serious bacterial infection has gone from just over 100 cases in four states to more than 9,000 in 19 states in Nigeria.
The ANC’s secretary general Fikile Mbalula has repeated an incorrect claim about access to electricity in 1994.
Several media publications have repeated an incorrect claim about the number of South Africans who get social grants.
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