Amid the uproar, Motshekga said in February that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was “a force to be reckoned ...

Kenyan president William Ruto, his deputy Kithure Kindiki and agriculture minister Mutahi Kagwe have each served rich tales ...

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A prominent doctor and influencer, Aproko Doctor, sought to show how US aid cuts would hurt Nigeria’s HIV/Aids fight.

The Democratic Alliance’s Mark Burke made two surprising claims about the salaries of parliamentary cleaners. But was he on ...

IN SHORT: A graphic claiming that Erick Rutto, president of Kenya’s chamber of commerce, criticised the country’s Standard newspaper is fake. The chamber clarified that the post did not come from ...

IN SHORT: A video shows Citizen TV anchor Jeff Koinange seemingly announcing a groundbreaking varicose vein treatment. But it is a deepfake created to promote a dubious product. A video circulating on ...

IN SHORT: Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party is experiencing an internal leadership crisis. But the online claim that the party chair has quit is false. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s ...

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IN SHORT: A video circulating online claims that drinking baking soda water after meals and consuming honey and cannabis oil can cure late-stage pancreatic cancer. But there is no evidence that these ...