Africa Check

A non-profit, non-partisan website fact-checking claims in public debate in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria & Senegal. Africa Check aims to use journalistic skills and crowd-sourced information to fact-check the leading claims in public debate in Africa, starting with South Africa, and to spread the culture and enable practice of fact-checking among journalists where it works. For more on our work and who we are, visit AfricaCheck.org

Africa Check’s tracks

• Are there 15 million child workers in Nigeria? Radio One 103.5 FM by Africa Check
• We discussed our fact-check of a claim that you don't PVC to vote by Africa Check
• No, Peter Obi didn't change his running mate by Africa Check
• Blog on 10 disinformation trends in election season by Africa Check
• A 4,070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths amongst pregnant women who took the Covid vaccine? by Africa Check
• Some claims about charcoal’s ‘super-benefits’ are dangerous by Africa Check
• Super-benefits of humble charcoal? Beware of dangerous claims in widely shared Facebook posts by Africa Check
• Onions, bitter leaf and honey mix won’t cure type 1 and 2 diabetes by Africa Check
• No evidenceAtiku Abubakar daughter said her father would ‘deal with’ Wike by Africa Check
• No, people vaccinated against Covid-19 don’t develop Aids by Africa Check