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Africa Check and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung advance information integrity through journalism fellowship
Over two weeks, fellows will immerse themselves in Africa Check’s culture of editorial precision, learning how to verify facts.
Mbeki and the jobs question: fact-checking employment from 1994 to 2008
Data shows almost 9 million people were employed in 1994, but changes in survey methodology make comparisons with later figures difficult.
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Did former governor Uduaghan ‘remarkably’ cut infant mortality in Nigeria’s Delta state by more than half, as glowing column claims?
Emmanuel Uduaghan's former commissioner for information made an eye-catching claim about Uduaghan's health achievements.
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Are Nigerians buying the 22nd cheapest petrol in the world? Experts say this is a flawed and misleading comparison
Several newspapers recently reported that Nigeria has some of the cheapest petrol in the world. We took a closer look.
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ANALYSIS: Unverifiable? M-Pesa, Kenya’s famous mobile money innovation has a beautiful story, but some claims are fuzzy
What could possibly be difficult about verifying simple claims about the economic impact of M-Pesa, a pioneering Kenyan innovation?
