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A doctor in Nigeria says fewer than 60% of pregnant women in the country visit a clinic for vital pre-birth care. We examine four claims.

Does Bola Tinubu's claim about fatalities on the country’s roads add up?

A leading gynaecologist says Nigeria fares poorly for maternal mortality and has the world’s highest abortion rates. Is he correct?

Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper recently painted an alarming picture of cardiovascular diseases in Africa’s most populous country. Is it right?

This factsheet takes a closer look at gun-related deaths in South Africa.

The police ministry has been making a spirited case for changes to the country’s primary gun law. But, not all its claims add up.

Messages posted on Twitter and Facebook claim that 50% of global mining deaths occur in South Africa.

The number of excess deaths may be a more accurate and concerning measure of the Covid pandemic than the daily death toll. But how are exces...

Covid has trained a spotlight on causes of death and how deaths are recorded across the world. We disentangle what paperwork has to be filed...

A British charity’s recent appeal for donations said Kenya had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world. We checked.