South Africa has only 800 ICU beds in the whole country.
Source: WhatsApp message (2020)
The data is hard to come by, but there are far more than 800 ICU beds in the public and private health system.
“40% of the medicines sold in Africa are fake.”
Source: A Twitter user (21 January 2020)
This statistic is often attributed to the WHO. But the agency says while it did find that 42% of the medicines reported to it between 2013 and 2017 were fake, this data does not represent the situation in Africa.
There are penalties in Kenyan law for attempting suicide, leading to low disclosure to authorities. But this is only one reason for the country’s acute lack of suicide data.
Is nearly half of capital city’s water lost and do inhabitants of slums pay much more for water than those in swanky apartments? We judged two of governor Mike Sonko’s claims about Nairobi’s water supply
Kenya’s civil servant pay levels continue to attract national debate. Is the situation as bad as the deputy president recently depicted?
Despite being much-anticipated, Kenya’s presidential frontrunners kept the country guessing whether they would pitch for a debate broadcast live . We examined 3 claims by the main candidate who did.
For decades, the plight of retired people in Nigeria has been dire. Pensioners have died while queueing for their cheques while many don’t receive them at all. Are most of Nigeria’s states presently indebted to retirees, as a union official said?
Unemployment remains a challenge to most African governments. Kenya’s no less, but debating solutions should rest on accurate information.
A South African community newspaper has claimed only car accidents and murder kill more young people in the country. The data doesn’t support the claim.
Nigeria’s government is looking to spend big on infrastructure. For funding, it is looking beyond its internal markets, but is it correct that the country has not borrowed in foreign markets since 2013? We did a bit of checking.