As white South Africans made headlines for entering the US as refugees, claims about their contribution to farming back home ...

According to a video circulating on Facebook, US president Donald Trump said Africa’s mineral resources belonged to his ...

The people of Anambra state in south-eastern Nigeria are set to elect a new governor on 8 November 2025.Election campaigning ...

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Attacks on people living and working on farms and smallholdings in South Africa are a topic of emotive debate. The terms “farm attack” and “farm murders” are popularly used to refer to “certain crimes ...

Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...

As one of South Africa’s most pressing problems, rape levels in the country get discussed and reported on often. And as a result, many of the statistics used cross our desks here at Africa Check.

The governor is mostly correct that Lagos is the largest city-state in Nigeria, although experts say it is the only one. He is also largely correct that about 65% of air traffic in and out of the ...

South African billionaire Johann Rupert, US president Donald Trump (May 2025) There is no evidence to back billionaire Johann Rupert’s claim that undocumented foreigners are mainly behind farm murders ...

IN SHORT: South Africa’s upcoming general election has seen the resurgence of an old rumour – that the vote of anyone who doesn’t vote is “automatically” given to the ruling African National Congress.

A former Lagos governor claimed that December 2024 remittances from Nigeria’s diaspora were equivalent to a whopping 4% of the country’s GDP. The data says otherwise. The former governor based the ...