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Does Kenya have one of the highest suicide rates in Africa? What the data says
Kenya has many challenges when it comes to the quality of suicide data, including the lack of a suicide registry.

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US ambassador to Kenya Margaret 'Meg' Whitman ‘loves to muck around with data’ – but do her numbers pass the accuracy test?
The American envoy has been working hard to sell her current posting as an attractive investment destination.

Old claims about rape in South Africa still being shared online
Scarce data is just one obstacle to combatting sexual violence.

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The changing face of Covid misinformation in South Africa: 2020 to 2022 in review
Fact-checkers aren’t seeing anywhere near the volume of false information about Covid-19 as we did in the heyday of the pandemic.

Yes, roughly 11 babies born in Kenya every four minutes. Much-shared but phantom ‘CIA’ claim gets there in the end
This stat doing the social media rounds does beat around the bush, but much like a drunk stumbling in the dark, it eventually makes it home.