Africa Check

The first stop for claims about African countries. Africa Check was set up in 2012 at the journalism department of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and now has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, Dakar and London, publishing in English and French. It is useful beyond the continent too, whenever a statistic about an African country turns up in an American or European argument. It is a non-profit trust in South Africa and a community interest company in Britain. Its funders have included the AFP Foundation and the university, which is worth knowing when you weigh its independence from the big news agencies.