William Ruto is keen to highlight the ruling party’s record as polls near. Do his claims add up? We checked
Report: Fact-checking Kenya’s deputy president on maize imports, debt, electricity & police
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Report: Has Nigeria not borrowed internationally since 2013? Minister misses mark
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.
Report: Did Kenya spend all borrowed money on development as Kenyatta said? Not quite
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, while describing his government as a responsible borrower, said that any debt the country incurred had not been used to pay bills but to develop Kenya. Does the data bear him out?
Report: Do 1.7 million people pay 80% of SA’s income tax?
The deputy CEO of a South African non-governmental organisation recently tweeted that close to 80% of personal income tax is contributed by 1.7 million individuals. But, as with most things to do with tax, the truth is not that simple.
Report: Kenya’s budget speech: Do claims about power, investment & roads add up?
As part of his 2017/18 budget speech, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury presented increases in electricity connections, power grid capacity, foreign direct investment and roads. We checked whether these claims add up.
Report: Fact-checked: Claims from Kenya’s ‘alternative’ State of the Nation
Opposition leader Raila Odinga told Kenyans that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s State of the Nation speech did not depict the reality on the ground. Do his claims?
Report: Fact-checked: Kenyatta’s 2017 State of the Nation Address
Kenya’s president delivered his fourth state of the nation address in Nairobi. We fact-checked his claims.
Factsheet: FACTSHEET: Inequality in South African cities
In 2012, Africa Check found that Cape Town had the lowest inequality – by a small margin – of South Africa’s metros, as measured by the Gini coefficient. This factsheet is an update and attempt to highlight the complexity of ranking South African cities’ high inequality rates.
Report: Does mobile data devour a quarter of South Africans’ income?
Agitating that #DataMustFall, some have claimed that South Africans spend close to a quarter of their income on data. But surveys from South Africa’s national statistics agency and the University of Cape Town tell a different story.
Report: Is Africa’s entire GDP equal to that of France? Obama is mostly correct
During a recent US-Africa forum in New York, United States president Barack Obama said that all of Africa produces about as much as France. We crunched the numbers to check if he is correct.