“L'Éthiopie est l'économie à la croissance la plus rapide au monde”
Africa Check rated this: Globalement correct
Africa Check
Africa Check is a non-profit fact-checking organisation founded in South Africa in 2012. It has teams in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
“Au total, il y a 1000 milliards de FCFA de salaire à payer au Sénégal”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Unreported plane crash in South Africa’s Limpopo province”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Behind the scenes, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff Abba Kyari “is the real president of Nigeria”
Africa Check rated this: Fake
“Image of Nigerian senator Remi Tinubu fighting”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Kenyan Singer Ringtone Apoko found dead in a waste bin in Karen.”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Crowd queuing at Nairobi hotel not applying for just five jobs”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“More bacteria found in men’s beards than dogs’ fur”
Africa Check rated this: Correct
“A human body can bear only up to 45 “DEL” (unit) of pain. A mother feels up to 57 DEL of pain while giving birth which is equal to 20 bones getting fractured.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Iceland has a shortage of men and will pay immigrants up to $5,000 to marry Icelandic women.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“UK and US withdrawing citizens from Nigeria due to ‘war against Christians’”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Leaving cut onions overnight makes them poisonous”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“South African women are the heaviest drinkers in Africa and they drink deliberately to harm babies to claim a welfare cheque”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Elderly woman from Ohio trained 65 cats to steal from neighbours”
Africa Check rated this: Satire
“‘HOSPITAL’ means House Of Sick People Including Treatment and Labour”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested Nigeria is set to slide into a second civil war.”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“One of the directors of State of Osun Ambulance died in Osogbo, Nigeria while using her phone and filling her gas cylinder.”
Africa Check rated this: Checked
“Samora Machel “used to say if you are applauded by white people you must know something is wrong with you”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president, has been put on the United Arab Emirates’ terrorism watchlist”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Organ donors alive when organs harvested”
Africa Check rated this: False