Africa Check19h
What is the number and distribution of South African schools?
Public schools receive government funding, and independent schools are run privately but registered with provincial education ...
Africa Check19h
How much does livestock contribute to Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all goods and services that a country produces in a given time period.
Africa Check3d
Yaz, South Africa – recall of hormonal contraceptive is real
IN SHORT: A popular video discussing a packaging error in a batch of Yaz Plus contraceptive pills sounds outlandish, leading some social media users to report it as ...
Africa Check3d
Ene Obi first female president of student union at University of Jos in Nigeria, not Pwajok Kalang in 2024
IN SHORT: The University of Jos’s student union elected a new female president in November, and some Nigerians have said she is the first woman in the position in the university’s history. But that’s ...
Africa Check3d
Conflit Russie - Ukraine : ces images ne montrent pas des soldats nord-coréens à Marioupol en novembre 2024
EN BREF - Toutes les images de cette publication sont hors contexte. Elles montrent respectivement des recrues de l’armée sud-coréenne, un défilé militaire de l’armée nord-coréenne en 2017 et des ...
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There are no Black Friday ‘gifts’ from South African retailer Pick n Pay, ignore dodgy link circulating on social media
IN SHORT: With many major retailers promoting “Black Friday” deals, scammers are also hard at work, using retailers’ names to try to trick shoppers. This message claiming that supermarket chain Pick n ...
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Don't fall for this fake Facebook account offering Kenyans motorbikes on credit
IN SHORT: The motorbike taxi industry provides an income for many young people in Kenya. But be on the lookout for imposters riding on the names of established businesses in the sector to scam you.
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Nigerians beware, there is no ‘Presidential N250,000 Youth Funds’ from the government
IN SHORT: There is no N250,000 (about US$147) “presidential youth funds” from the Nigerian government. These Facebook posts urging you to “apply today” are a scam and should be ignored. They feature a ...
Africa Check4d
Recurring scam: Spar South Africa is still not hiring part-time workers for ‘this December’
IN SHORT: Is Spar looking for part-time workers in South Africa for December 2024? No, this is just another recurring job scam in the name of the supermarket chain. “Submit Your Cv Directly,” the job ...
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Législatives 2024 au Sénégal : ces images ne montrent pas des armes retrouvées dans le convoi du candidat de l’opposition Barthélemy Dias
EN BREF - La première image a été prise en Arizona, dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Quant aux deux autres images, nous n'avons pas pu retrouver leurs origines exactes, mais elles sont présentes sur ...
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Faux, ces images ne montrent pas des légionnaires français capturés au Tchad
EN BREF - Ces photos ont été prises lors d’une session de formation animée par des membres des Forces armées françaises au bénéfice des unités antiterroristes tchadiennes en octobre 2024 au Tchad. Le ...
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No, image showing Nigeria’s Kano state deputy minority leader, Aliyu Sani Madaki Gini, with stack of cash not photoshopped
IN SHORT: A viral post on Facebook shows two images of Nigerian politician Aliyu Sani Madaki Gini, one with and one without a huge stack of naira notes in front of him. People are claiming that the ...