Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari died in a London hospital on Sunday 13 July 2025. The news of his death ...

A message sent to Africa Check by subscribers to our WhatsApp lines claims that a company called “Sibanye Water” is offering ...

IN SHORT: Several viral videos and posts on social media wrongly claim that the son of Kenya’s deputy police chief Eluid Lagat killed a man in Thome in the capital Nairobi. But there is no evidence to ...

No, mixture of guava leaves, ginseng root, ginger and lemons can’t cure blocked fallopian tubes or endometriosis – see a doctor instead ...

IN SHORT: The graphic claims YouTuber Lynn Ngugi said activist Rose Njeri collaborated with Estonian hackers and Boniface ...

A document circulating on Facebook appears to be a statement from Kenya’s former prime minister and Orange Democratic ...

A post circulating on Facebook claims that Rwandan president Paul Kagame is critically ill in an intensive care unit (ICU) in ...

A post on Facebook claims that Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s former chief of army staff, escaped an attack by Boko Haram in early ...

A graphic posted on the social media platform X on 19 June 2025 is designed to look like a breaking-news alert from the Star, a Kenyan newspaper. It ...

IN SHORT: While promising, a recent breakthrough in HIV research is not a “cure” or a “vaccine”, as several posts claim on social media. The scientists involved say it could be many years before the ...

IN SHORT: Since US president Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2025, many prominent people have visited him at the White House. However, the claim that Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declined an ...