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The country's GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population) was US$4,740 in 2020. The economy slumped by 7% compared with 2019. This is the biggest annual fall in economic activity the country has seen since at least 1946. Related: Stillmisleading.
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE COVID-19 JABS BETTER? SOUTH AFRICA’S Although an expert said two mRNA vaccines developed in Germany and the US had the highest efficacy, there’s little point in this kind of comparison. Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party (April 2021) After South Africa’s Covid YES, ASTRAZENECA’S COVID-19 VACCINE MADE WITH GENETICALLY A number of Facebook posts express concern about the ingredients in the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.. Some posts suggest that the vaccine contains a chimpanzee virus similar to HIV, contains chimpanzee DNA, or that it is a chimpanzee virus modified to be infectious in humans.. There is an element of truth to these CRUEL OLD HOAX RESURFACES. NO, 34 KIDNAPPED KIDS NOT “There's a Cape Town registered truck caught in Rustenburg with 34 kids under the age of 12 kidnapped from Pretoria and surroundings,” reads a message widely shared on Facebook in South Africa in March 2021. But the message is an old and cruel hoax. TAXI INDUSTRY TRANSPORTS MAJORITY OF SOUTH AFRICA’S PUBLIC Taxi industry transports majority of South Africa’s public commuters, but exact number of passengers unclear. In arguing that taxi drivers should be considered essential workers when Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out, the taxi industry claimed it transports 70% of South Africa’s commuters, or more than 15 million people daily. NO, GADDAFI DIDN’T PREDICT CORONAVIRUS, BUT DID TALK ABOUT No, Gaddafi didn’t predict coronavirus, but did talk about viruses and vaccines. As the world struggles to bring the new coronavirus pandemic under control, claims that the outbreak was predicted by famous individuals are doing the rounds on social media. We’ve debunked a claim suggesting author Dean Koontz foretold the pandemicas far back
FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA’S CIVIL SERVICE IN NUMBERS Claims about the rising number of government employees in South Africa are common. In recent years, the civil service – and its best friend, the public wage bill – has been described as bloated, unsustainable and a drain on the public purse. In his annual budget speech on 26 February 2020, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced that the public wage bill would be reduced by R160 billion COVID KITS ONLY DISTRIBUTED IN ONE INDIAN STATE, NOT CAUSE According to a graphic widely shared on Facebook, the Indian government is distributing a “home Covid kit” at a relatively low cost, while “the world is in a vaccine frenzy”.. The Afrikaans caption to the post reads: “ Kyk net wat doen India vir Covid behandeling, terwyl die wereld rondsloer en tyd mors, en kyk net die prys?” This roughly translates to: “Just look at what India ‘OUR WORLD DIVIDED’ QUOTE NOT BY NELSON MANDELA A meme shared on Facebook shows a photo of Nelson Mandela with a quote attributed to the former South African leader. The quote reads: “Our world is not divided by race, colour, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, colour, gender, or religion.” MICHELLE OBAMA WAS ONCE MICHAEL? NO, OLD PHOTO ALTERED A Facebook post shared – and debated – among people in Nigeria claims that Michelle Obama, wife of former US president Barack Obama, was once biologically male.. It shows two photos. One is of a younger Barack with his arm around a person who has close-cropped hair and Michelle’s face. The second shows Barack and Michelle Obama – her hair long – in a similar pose.AFRICA CHECK
The country's GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population) was US$4,740 in 2020. The economy slumped by 7% compared with 2019. This is the biggest annual fall in economic activity the country has seen since at least 1946. Related: Stillmisleading.
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE COVID-19 JABS BETTER? SOUTH AFRICA’S Although an expert said two mRNA vaccines developed in Germany and the US had the highest efficacy, there’s little point in this kind of comparison. Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party (April 2021) After South Africa’s Covid YES, ASTRAZENECA’S COVID-19 VACCINE MADE WITH GENETICALLY A number of Facebook posts express concern about the ingredients in the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.. Some posts suggest that the vaccine contains a chimpanzee virus similar to HIV, contains chimpanzee DNA, or that it is a chimpanzee virus modified to be infectious in humans.. There is an element of truth to these CRUEL OLD HOAX RESURFACES. NO, 34 KIDNAPPED KIDS NOT “There's a Cape Town registered truck caught in Rustenburg with 34 kids under the age of 12 kidnapped from Pretoria and surroundings,” reads a message widely shared on Facebook in South Africa in March 2021. But the message is an old and cruel hoax. TAXI INDUSTRY TRANSPORTS MAJORITY OF SOUTH AFRICA’S PUBLIC Taxi industry transports majority of South Africa’s public commuters, but exact number of passengers unclear. In arguing that taxi drivers should be considered essential workers when Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out, the taxi industry claimed it transports 70% of South Africa’s commuters, or more than 15 million people daily. NO, GADDAFI DIDN’T PREDICT CORONAVIRUS, BUT DID TALK ABOUT No, Gaddafi didn’t predict coronavirus, but did talk about viruses and vaccines. As the world struggles to bring the new coronavirus pandemic under control, claims that the outbreak was predicted by famous individuals are doing the rounds on social media. We’ve debunked a claim suggesting author Dean Koontz foretold the pandemicas far back
FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA’S CIVIL SERVICE IN NUMBERS Claims about the rising number of government employees in South Africa are common. In recent years, the civil service – and its best friend, the public wage bill – has been described as bloated, unsustainable and a drain on the public purse. In his annual budget speech on 26 February 2020, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced that the public wage bill would be reduced by R160 billion COVID KITS ONLY DISTRIBUTED IN ONE INDIAN STATE, NOT CAUSE According to a graphic widely shared on Facebook, the Indian government is distributing a “home Covid kit” at a relatively low cost, while “the world is in a vaccine frenzy”.. The Afrikaans caption to the post reads: “ Kyk net wat doen India vir Covid behandeling, terwyl die wereld rondsloer en tyd mors, en kyk net die prys?” This roughly translates to: “Just look at what India ‘OUR WORLD DIVIDED’ QUOTE NOT BY NELSON MANDELA A meme shared on Facebook shows a photo of Nelson Mandela with a quote attributed to the former South African leader. The quote reads: “Our world is not divided by race, colour, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, colour, gender, or religion.” MICHELLE OBAMA WAS ONCE MICHAEL? NO, OLD PHOTO ALTERED A Facebook post shared – and debated – among people in Nigeria claims that Michelle Obama, wife of former US president Barack Obama, was once biologically male.. It shows two photos. One is of a younger Barack with his arm around a person who has close-cropped hair and Michelle’s face. The second shows Barack and Michelle Obama – her hair long – in a similar pose. PFIZER AND MODERNA COVID-19 VACCINES ARE VACCINES There is no evidence that Pfizer and Moderna have ever described their vaccines as anything other than vaccines. Moderna does regularly refer to its Covid-19 vaccine by its technical name – mRNA-1273. But, in the company’s first announcement of the vaccine’s development, Moderna said “mRNA-1273 is an mRNA vaccine”. FRENCH NATIONAL ARRESTED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC “Captured,” begins a message posted on Facebook in Nigeria on 11 May 2021. “He is FRENCH, he is a journalist and a humanitarian services provider. Under cover, he is an Arms Dealer, setting this Country called Nigeria and other region on fire while we YES, SOUTH AFRICAN LAW FIRM SAYS BOSSES MAY BE ABLE TO A post circulating on Facebook in February 2021 quotes South African law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as saying employers in the country may have grounds to dismiss workers for refusing to take the Covid-19 vaccine.. The post was flagged by Facebook’s fact-checking system as possibly false. But it’s true. Balance of rights A Covid-19 vaccination rollout is expected to begin in South Africa DID MANDELA INVITE THE PRISON GUARD WHO USED TO URINATE ON A story circulating on Facebook in April 2021 claims that Nelson Mandela, after becoming president of South Africa, met one of his former prison guards and invited him to lunch.. Mandela, who died in 2013, was a leader of the African National Congress and jailed by the apartheid state for 27 years. He was South Africa’s first democratically elected president, in office from 1994 to 1999. FALSE CONNECTIONS: WUHAN RESEARCH LAB NOT OWNED BY Disclosure: The Open Society Foundations and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are among Africa Check’s funders, which together provided 21% of our income in 2019. “The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxosmithkline,” claims a message that has been posted several times on Facebook. It goes on to say that the drug company GlaxoSmithKline owns Pfizer, NO, ROBERT F KENNEDY DIDN’T SAY MRNA COVID VACCINES DAMAGE Robert F Kennedy Jr, nephew of US president John F Kennedy and son of politician Robert F Kennedy – both assassinated in the 1960s – says mRNA Covid-19 vaccines will alter people’s genetic material.. At least, that’s according to a January 2021 Facebook post that quotes Kennedy at length, in Afrikaans. “Aan al my pasiënte,” it begins – “To all my patients.” CORONAVIRUS DOESN’T HAVE OWN PH LEVEL, ALKALINE FOOD WON’T Coronavirus doesn’t have own pH level, alkaline food won’t ‘beat’ it. “This is to inform us all that the pH for corona virus varies from 5.5 to 8.5,” reads a graphic shared on WhatsApp. It says this is based on “research” from “Journal of Virology, April 1991”. A similar claim is going around Facebook where it isused to
NO, BREATHING STEAM FROM BOILING ORANGE OR LEMON PEELS A video shared on WhatsApp claims heating orange peels to boiling point and breathing in the steam can prevent the new coronavirus. In the video, a woman shows how to make the mixture.She says you must “inhale the steam because from what we have heard, coronavirus enters through the nose, which is really cold, colder than other parts of the body” because “it has been scientifically MICHELLE OBAMA WAS ONCE MICHAEL? NO, OLD PHOTO ALTERED A Facebook post shared – and debated – among people in Nigeria claims that Michelle Obama, wife of former US president Barack Obama, was once biologically male.. It shows two photos. One is of a younger Barack with his arm around a person who has close-cropped hair and Michelle’s face. The second shows Barack and Michelle Obama – her hair long – in a similar pose. 25 YEARS ON, RUMOUR BY US ANTI-CONTRACEPTIVE ORGANISATION “Abortion drugs discovered in Bill Gates' vaccines,” declares an image posted on Facebook.. “Secret sterilisation program discovered in Africa.” The image seems to be screenshot of a news articlepublished in 2017.
NO, TEA DOES NOT CURE COVID-19 Does tea contain chemicals known to cure Covid-19?A message going around Facebook, where it has even been translated into Afrikaans, claims a Chinese “hero doctor” found evidence that chemicals in tea “would significantly decrease the impact” of the Covid-19 coronavirus “on the human body”. The message has also popped up on WhatsApp, and was sent to Africa Check’s WhatsApp fact YES, ASTRAZENECA’S COVID-19 VACCINE MADE WITH GENETICALLY A number of Facebook posts express concern about the ingredients in the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.. Some posts suggest that the vaccine contains a chimpanzee virus similar to HIV, contains chimpanzee DNA, or that it is a chimpanzee virus modified to be infectious in humans.. There is an element of truth to these FRENCH NATIONAL ARRESTED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC “Captured,” begins a message posted on Facebook in Nigeria on 11 May 2021. “He is FRENCH, he is a journalist and a humanitarian services provider. Under cover, he is an Arms Dealer, setting this Country called Nigeria and other region on fire while we FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA’S CIVIL SERVICE IN NUMBERS Claims about the rising number of government employees in South Africa are common. In recent years, the civil service – and its best friend, the public wage bill – has been described as bloated, unsustainable and a drain on the public purse. In his annual budget speech on 26 February 2020, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced that the public wage bill would be reduced by R160 billion FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA'S CRIME STATISTICS FOR 2019/20 The police released South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 on 31 July 2020, a month earlier than expected. This comes on the back of a June 2016 resolution to release the statistics every three months, minister of police Bheki Cele said in the briefing. He said he believed the new approach “would allow for timeous intervention measures aimed at crime reduction”. NO, GADDAFI DIDN’T PREDICT CORONAVIRUS, BUT DID TALK ABOUT As the world struggles to bring the new coronavirus pandemic under control, claims that the outbreak was predicted by famous individuals are doing the rounds on social media. We’ve debunked a claim suggesting author Dean Koontz foretold the pandemic as far back as 1981. We’ve verified another that said Bill Gates warned us in 2015 about the coronavirus pandemic. ARE SA WHITES REALLY BEING KILLED 'LIKE FLIES'? WHY STEVE South African musician Steve Hofmeyr has claimed that the number of white South Africans killed by blacks would fill a soccer stadium, that white Afrikaners are being killed "like flies" and that a white farmer is murdered every five days. But the claims are incorrect and grossly exaggerated. In fact, whites are less likely to be murdered than any other race group. CORONAVIRUS DOESN’T HAVE OWN PH LEVEL, ALKALINE FOOD WON’T “This is to inform us all that the pH for corona virus varies from 5.5 to 8.5,” reads a graphic shared on WhatsApp.It says this is based on “research” from “Journal of Virology, April 1991”. NO, CASSAVA DOESN’T CURE CANCER Latsa nan don karanta wannan rohoton da Hausa. Click here to read this report in Hausa. The vegetable cassava cures cancer, claims a Facebook post shared in Nigeria in November 2019. It reads: “ I ate 10 grams of cassava three times a day. After eating cassava for one month, my doctor checked my bladder for cancer. He was surprised because my bladder was completely clean and CENTURIES-OLD TIBETAN LIBRARY EXISTS, BUT DOESN’T RECORD “Believe it or Not - Library found in Tibet with 84.000 rolls and untouchable books, it has been holding the history of humanity for over 10.000 years,” begins a Facebook post shared in South Africa. It shows a photo of a man staring up at a massive shelf, extending to the roof and beyond the frame of the photo, packed with thousands of objects that appear to be scrolls. NO, TEA DOES NOT CURE COVID-19 Does tea contain chemicals known to cure Covid-19?A message going around Facebook, where it has even been translated into Afrikaans, claims a Chinese “hero doctor” found evidence that chemicals in tea “would significantly decrease the impact” of the Covid-19 coronavirus “on the human body”. The message has also popped up on WhatsApp, and was sent to Africa Check’s WhatsApp fact YES, ASTRAZENECA’S COVID-19 VACCINE MADE WITH GENETICALLY A number of Facebook posts express concern about the ingredients in the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.. Some posts suggest that the vaccine contains a chimpanzee virus similar to HIV, contains chimpanzee DNA, or that it is a chimpanzee virus modified to be infectious in humans.. There is an element of truth to these FRENCH NATIONAL ARRESTED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC “Captured,” begins a message posted on Facebook in Nigeria on 11 May 2021. “He is FRENCH, he is a journalist and a humanitarian services provider. Under cover, he is an Arms Dealer, setting this Country called Nigeria and other region on fire while we FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA’S CIVIL SERVICE IN NUMBERS Claims about the rising number of government employees in South Africa are common. In recent years, the civil service – and its best friend, the public wage bill – has been described as bloated, unsustainable and a drain on the public purse. In his annual budget speech on 26 February 2020, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced that the public wage bill would be reduced by R160 billion FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA'S CRIME STATISTICS FOR 2019/20 The police released South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 on 31 July 2020, a month earlier than expected. This comes on the back of a June 2016 resolution to release the statistics every three months, minister of police Bheki Cele said in the briefing. He said he believed the new approach “would allow for timeous intervention measures aimed at crime reduction”. NO, GADDAFI DIDN’T PREDICT CORONAVIRUS, BUT DID TALK ABOUT As the world struggles to bring the new coronavirus pandemic under control, claims that the outbreak was predicted by famous individuals are doing the rounds on social media. We’ve debunked a claim suggesting author Dean Koontz foretold the pandemic as far back as 1981. We’ve verified another that said Bill Gates warned us in 2015 about the coronavirus pandemic. ARE SA WHITES REALLY BEING KILLED 'LIKE FLIES'? WHY STEVE South African musician Steve Hofmeyr has claimed that the number of white South Africans killed by blacks would fill a soccer stadium, that white Afrikaners are being killed "like flies" and that a white farmer is murdered every five days. But the claims are incorrect and grossly exaggerated. In fact, whites are less likely to be murdered than any other race group. CORONAVIRUS DOESN’T HAVE OWN PH LEVEL, ALKALINE FOOD WON’T “This is to inform us all that the pH for corona virus varies from 5.5 to 8.5,” reads a graphic shared on WhatsApp.It says this is based on “research” from “Journal of Virology, April 1991”. NO, CASSAVA DOESN’T CURE CANCER Latsa nan don karanta wannan rohoton da Hausa. Click here to read this report in Hausa. The vegetable cassava cures cancer, claims a Facebook post shared in Nigeria in November 2019. It reads: “ I ate 10 grams of cassava three times a day. After eating cassava for one month, my doctor checked my bladder for cancer. He was surprised because my bladder was completely clean and CENTURIES-OLD TIBETAN LIBRARY EXISTS, BUT DOESN’T RECORD “Believe it or Not - Library found in Tibet with 84.000 rolls and untouchable books, it has been holding the history of humanity for over 10.000 years,” begins a Facebook post shared in South Africa. It shows a photo of a man staring up at a massive shelf, extending to the roof and beyond the frame of the photo, packed with thousands of objects that appear to be scrolls. NO, TEA DOES NOT CURE COVID-19 Does tea contain chemicals known to cure Covid-19?A message going around Facebook, where it has even been translated into Afrikaans, claims a Chinese “hero doctor” found evidence that chemicals in tea “would significantly decrease the impact” of the Covid-19 coronavirus “on the human body”. The message has also popped up on WhatsApp, and was sent to Africa Check’s WhatsApp fact FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICA'S CRIME STATISTICS FOR 2019/20 The police released South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 on 31 July 2020, a month earlier than expected. This comes on the back of a June 2016 resolution to release the statistics every three months, minister of police Bheki Cele said in the briefing. He said he believed the new approach “would allow for timeous intervention measures aimed at crime reduction”. NO, HELEN ZILLE, FORMER HEAD OF SOUTH AFRICA’S DEMOCRATIC Tony Leon, leader of South Africa’s Democratic Alliance opposition party until 2007, has drawn widespread criticism for saying the election of Mmusi Maimane, the party’s first black leader, was “ an experiment gone wrong ”.. Maimane took over from Leon’s successor Helen Zille in 2015, but stepped down as leader and left the DA in October 2019.The party’s current leader is John HOT STEAM WON’T KILL THE CORONAVIRUS A graphic circulating on Facebook and Twitter in South Africa announces a “14 Day National Steaming Drive” from 18 to 31 January 2021 to “conquer” the coronavirus. “We call upon everyone to steam at the same time, for two weeks twice a day,” it reads. Inhaling steam will “kill the virus in the nose”. MICHELLE OBAMA WAS ONCE MICHAEL? NO, OLD PHOTO ALTERED A Facebook post shared – and debated – among people in Nigeria claims that Michelle Obama, wife of former US president Barack Obama, was once biologically male.. It shows two photos. One is of a younger Barack with his arm around a person who has close-cropped hair and Michelle’s face. The second shows Barack and Michelle Obama – her hair long – in a similar pose. 25 YEARS ON, RUMOUR BY US ANTI-CONTRACEPTIVE ORGANISATION “Abortion drugs discovered in Bill Gates' vaccines,” declares an image posted on Facebook.. “Secret sterilisation program discovered in Africa.” The image seems to be screenshot of a news articlepublished in 2017.
#5FACTS: THE SAD EXTENT OF SUICIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA A 19-year-old woman reportedly jumped to her death in the South African suburb of Braamfontein. Media reports suggest that the university student was encouraged by people on the ground. How many people die due to suicide each year in NO, 24-HOUR PATERNITY TESTS NOT R900 AT SOUTH AFRICAN A much-shared post on Facebook tells men that for just R900, they can get a DNA test done at Clicks, a South African retailer. The post adds that the mother of the child need not be present, suggesting the test can be done stealthily. “Gents DNA Test is only R900 at clicks. HAS SOUTH AFRICA LOST R700 BILLION TO CORRUPTION SINCE '94 Available evidence does not support the figureWith “Corruption Fact #1” – that South Africa has lost R700 billion to corruption over the last 20 years – trade unions and civil society organisations have been rallying citizens to join marches against corruption today. One of the Unite Against Corruption march organisers and former general secretary of trade union Cosatu, Zwelinzima Vavi CENTURIES-OLD TIBETAN LIBRARY EXISTS, BUT DOESN’T RECORD “Believe it or Not - Library found in Tibet with 84.000 rolls and untouchable books, it has been holding the history of humanity for over 10.000 years,” begins a Facebook post shared in South Africa. It shows a photo of a man staring up at a massive shelf, extending to the roof and beyond the frame of the photo, packed with thousands of objects that appear to be scrolls. Skip to main content * " class="en is-active">">English * " class="fr">">FrançaisMAIN NAVIGATION
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WHY GOOD STATISTICS ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR FACT CHECKERS Andrew Dudfield, Head of Product at Full Fact, presents the high-level insights following interviews with fact checkers around the worldabo...
13 May 2021
2021 AFRICAN FACT-CHECKING AWARDS ENTRIES NOW OPEN Journalists and journalism students across the continent can enter the awards, now in their eighth year.07 May 2021
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tea
Health
HEALTH CHECK: BEWARE OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS PROMOTING ROOIBOS TEA AS A‘CURE-ALL’
According to the internet, one of South Africa’s favourite beverages, rooibos tea, can cure many ills. But are these claimsaccurate?
09 April 2021
UNDEF-FUNDED PROJECT TO STRENGTHEN MEDIA LITERACY AND FACT-CHECKINGSKILLS
With support from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), Africa Check, the continent’s leading independent fact-checkingorganisation, w...
01 April 2021
SONA
Cyril Ramaphosa
REPORT CARD: SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA’S CLAIMS ABOUT THESTATE OF THE NATION
With Cyril Ramaphosa set to give his fifth state of the nation address today, we look back at claims from his previous addresses – andsugge...
11 February 2021
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DO ‘OVER A MILLION’ AFRICANS DIE IN ROAD ACCIDENTS EACH YEAR? NO,GLOBAL FIGURE
In a widely listened-to podcast, the BBC made the startling claim that more than a million Africans die each year on the continent’s roads....
03 June 2021
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children
women
IS WELL-KNOWN NIGERIAN DOCTOR CORRECT ABOUT MALNUTRITION IN WOMEN ANDCHILDREN?
Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, medical doctor and first lady of Lagos, wants the state to be healthier. But do her claims about the extent of poornu...
18 May 2021
Covid-19 vaccine
vaccines
EFF
russia
china
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE COVID-19 JABS BETTER? SOUTH AFRICA’S EFF WRONGTO COMPARE VACCINES
After South Africa suspended the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the Economic Freedom Fighters urged “better” jab options. But therereally is no...
12 May 2021
Coronavirus
Covid-19
vaccination
Health
TOP OFFICIAL GETS IT WRONG: KENYA NOWHERE NEAR SEVENTH IN WORLD FOR COVID-19 VACCINATION Chief administrative secretary Mercy Mwangangi cut an elated figure when she compared Kenya’s vaccination progress to other countries.But t...
10 May 2021
Ghana
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AS TWITTER OPTS FOR GHANA OFFICE, NIGERIA’S TOP POLITICAL PARTIES CAST THE BLAME. BUT DID THEY GET IT RIGHT? A country spurned or much ado about nothing? The ruling APC and the opposition PDP clashed over the US social media firm’s choice forits fi...
06 May 2021
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child mortality
NO, MORE THAN 99% OF NIGERIAN CHILDREN UNDER 5 DON’T DIE EVERY YEAR Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s mostpopulous ...
29 April 2021
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radicals
antioxidants
myths
FACTSHEET: FREE RADICALS, ANTIOXIDANTS AND MEDICAL MYTHS Some popular claims about antioxidant-rich diets seem almost miraculous, with benefits that include curing cancer or preventingaging. How c...
19 May 2021
refineries
petroleum
FACTSHEET: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NIGERIA’S AILING REFINERIES AND THEIR PERENNIAL REPAIRS Nigeria’s beleaguered oil refineries have again dominated the headlines after hundreds of billions of naira were allocated to repairone. Bu...
14 April 2021
china
debt
Economy
FACTSHEET: UNRAVELLING NIGERIA’S DEBT TO CHINA There are concerns about Nigeria’s rising debt and especially that owed to China. In this factsheet, we look at the numbers.08 April 2021
FACTSHEET: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VACCINE APPROVAL IN NIGERIA As the world counts down the weeks to a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine, we look at the steps that would have to be followed beforethe...
28 October 2020
FACTSHEET: SOUTH AFRICAN SERVICE DELIVERY IN 1994 – WHAT WE DO ANDDON’T KNOW
South African politicians often make claims about how access to water, electricity and sanitation has improved – or worsened – since1994. T...
08 October 2020
FACTSHEET: CHILD MALNUTRITION IN SOUTH AFRICA Malnutrition in children can lead to wasting, stunting, underweight and obesity, putting the child at risk of illness – and difficultieslat...
22 June 2020
FACTSHEET: HOW TO TALK ABOUT MIGRATION IN SOUTH AFRICA The words used to describe migration can be confusing, but definitions are important when we discuss the movements of people. We look atthe...
18 May 2020
FACTSHEET: FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT 5G TECHNOLOGY ANSWERED We unpack key aspects of this wireless technology, which has in recent months found itself at the fore of public health debate.08 May 2020
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The country's GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population) was US$4,740 in 2020. The economy slumped by 7% compared with 2019. This is the biggest annual fall in economic activity the country has seen since at least 1946. Related: Still misleading…Source
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