“Pineapple leaves can do wonders for your health”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
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.
“Thabo Mbeki called for Zinzdi Mandela’s prosecution for tweets on land in South Africa”
Africa Check rated this: False
“The skeleton of Goliath found in Jerusalem.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Revive a stroke victim and prevent them getting brain damage by pricking their fingers and ear lobe with a needle”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Bill Gates “thinks a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months".”
Africa Check rated this: Checked
“‘Four-eyed creature’ not ‘spotted in Nairobi’”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Kenyans being arrested for mobile loan arrears with mobile money lenders Tala, Branch and Fuliza”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Photo of execution of 26 politicians in China due to corruption”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“Photos of melted cars and traffic lights show damage by the world’s highest temperatures yet, recorded in the Middle Eastern country of Kuwait.”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“The Hummingbird ‘Topaz’ is the smallest bird on earth”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“US stopped issuing Nigerian study visas”
Africa Check rated this: False
“When you lift the phone you say Hello..? Do you know what is the real meaning of Hello..? It is the name of a girl..! YES & do u know who is that girl..? ‘Margaret Hello’ she was the girlfriend of Graham Bell who invented telephone.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“World record broken with woman giving birth to 17 babies from one pregnancy.”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Dr Roselyn Akombe, Kenya’s former electoral commissioner is dead”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Drinking a mixture of apple vinegar and the juice of lemon, ginger and garlic “naturally” opens “the veins of the heart”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“George Soros said he funded “black hate groups” to destroy the US”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ‘launching terror flag’”
Africa Check rated this: False
“There are only two people alive who know the recipe of Coca-Cola … and they aren’t allowed to travel on the same plane, in case it crashes.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Three paedophiles shot, hanged from crane in Yemen for rape and murder of boy”
Africa Check rated this: Correct
“Zookeeper Akimbo Obwe’bwe from San Diego was arrested after trying to molest a 500-pound male gorilla.”
Africa Check rated this: Satire