IN SHORT: A notice circulating on Facebook claims that the Uganda Communications Commission plans to shut down the internet and mobile money services before and during the country’s 2026 elections.

Multiple versions of the same claim, that an opinion poll has been conducted showing popularity rankings for Chebunyo ward in Kenya’s Bomet county, are circulating online. Bomet county is in the Rift ...

A video of former US president Barack Obama speaking passionately about democracy has been circulating online since November 2025. In the video, Obama says: We have to stop pretending that countries ...

IN SHORT: The Facebook page uses the name and logo of Watu – a renowned asset finance company operating in Kenya – to offer Kenyans new and used motorbikes on credit. Do not fall for these offers, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

A popular social media challenge in South Africa asks people to plant 10 spekbooms each. This is justified by the claim that the plant can capture and store “more than four tonnes of carbon dioxide ...

Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other low-effort forms of information deception. Human rights organisation Amnesty International ...

When a KwaZulu-Natal municipality introduced an academic bursary for young women who can prove that they are virgins it caused an uproar earlier this year. Each time, the same questions arise. How is ...

Africa’s most populous country holds elections – including for president – in February 2023. So far, we’ve spotted 10 types of false information in the campaigns. Published on 10 January 2023 ...

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.

“Is Johannesburg, seriously, the largest man-made forest in the world?” It is a question Talk Radio 702 host Jenny Crwys-Williams put to Africa Check's Southern Africa Editor, Julian Rademeyer, during ...