Africa Check

Over two weeks, fellows will immerse themselves in Africa Check’s culture of editorial precision, learning how to verify facts.

Here are our most-read fact-checks for 2024, with tips to help you sort fact from fiction this holiday season.

This year's awards attracted nearly 250 entries from 29 countries across the continent.

With the Google News Initiative, Africa Check has been working with Rwandan media organisations and journalists ahead of the elections.

South Africa-based Africa Check researcher Kirsten Cosser is more convinced of the value of fact-checking than ever.

Tess Wandia joined Africa Check as a senior researcher in January 2022. Here’s what she learned – spoiler alert, it was no walk in the park....

Here’s how to make better sense of the world, on the beach. We share our top picks of books and podcasts.

South Africans have the right to access government information, so it’s important that agency and department websites work well.

Misinformation knows no borders and Africa Check often responds to similar false claims from country to country.

As the continent’s first independent fact-checking organisation marks its first decade, those who have been at the helm look back on the jou