Unemployment remains a challenge to most African governments. Kenya’s no less, but debating solutions should rest on accurate information.
Report: Are 70% of Kenyans who can work jobless? Union chief mangles numbers
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Report: No, there is no ‘miracle recipe’ that cures diabetes
A Philippine doctor claims to have discovered a recipe – consisting of sweet peppers, eggs and sea salt – that eliminates diabetes “in five minutes”. But it has not been scientifically proven.
Report: Did Uganda receive more refugees daily in 2016 than many European nations did the whole year?
The top official of an international charity said Uganda received more refugees daily at the end of 2016 than many wealthy European countries did the entire year. Do the numbers add up?
Report: No data shows that 800,000 Nigerians live in South Africa
As xenophobic violence rears its head again in South Africa, a widely quoted figure of how many Nigerians live in South Africa is completely unsupported.
Report: Claim that 13 million international migrants live in SA wildly incorrect
A South African political party leader’s incorrect claim that 13 million foreign-born migrants live in the country is in part based on a debunked claim shared by an investigative television show.
Report: Correct? Nigeria’s Kogi state had no working fire engine when I took over – governor
The governor of Nigeria’s Kogi state recently said there was no working fire engine for the region’s 4.4 million people when he took office. We looked into this claim.
Blog post: ANALYSIS: Mapping, understanding & preventing xenophobic violence in SA
In an open letter to the South African president, one of the country’s big labour unions and an organisation representing African migrant communities called for the identification of areas where xenophobic attacks might occur. Migration expert Alexandra Hiropoulos introduces Xenowatch, a project aiming to provide the building blocks to do that.
Report: ‘Totally out of the question’ that a third of Malawi’s population live in SA
South African television programme Carte Blanche investigated the fraught journey to South Africa many Malawians experience. But their hard-hitting figure that “almost one-third of Malawi’s population” live in South Africa is completely off-point.
Report: Is SA #1 in the world for death, Kenya for tea & Nigeria for scrabble players?
A map supposedly showing what each country in the world ranks tops for has made headlines. We inspected the claims about South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
Blog post: COMMENT: Wrong rape ‘facts’ flourish in a knowledge void
Most of the information shared about the extent of rape in South Africa is unsupported. Kate Wilkinson looks at why wrong rape “facts” flourish and how the police isn’t helping.