Three claims about Kenya’s tax income and spending on development
Source: Aden Duale, majority leader in the national assembly (September 2018)
One correct, two incorrect
7 claims about Nigeria government's achievements
Source: Democracy Day speech
Ratings ranging from correct and incorrect to misleading
South Africa spends three times more on education than Kenya
Source: Alvin Botes, South African MP(May 2018)
If education budgets are compared as share of GDP, SA spends only 1.1 times more
The US gives South Africa R300 billion worth of aid
Source:
Tweet by Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip
(March 2018)
US provided aid of R6.1 billion in 2017
Muhammadu Buhari is failing the country’s education sector, an adviser of the previous administration has charged. But do his claims make the grade?
Are the country’s legislators living luxuriously as the majority of citizens tighten their belts? We did the math.
Doctors in Nigeria have recently ended a strike. But what are the key issues that inform the regularity of work boycotts in the country’s public healthcare sector, causing many to leave?
To attract investors, Nigeria’s Kaduna state wants to repair aircraft. But would its planned facility be only the fourth on the continent, as the state’s governor’s account tweeted?
Nigeria’s much delayed 2017 budget has been signed into law, but is it the first time spend on development projects has reached 30%, as has been reported? We checked.
Until Africa Check started looking into it, the World Health Organization said on the French version of its website that a startling half of births in sub-Saharan Africa are to teen mothers.