Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all goods and services that a country produces in a given time period. Livestock is a sub-sector of agriculture that includes animals used to ...

The Police Service's latest crime statistics covering October to December 2024 recorded 6,953 murders, a 9.8% decrease from the same period in 2023. Of these, 961 victims were women, meaning around 10 ...

A graphic on Facebook says you can treat cuts and scrapes at home with a simple kitchen ingredient. “Putting sugar in a wound will reduce pain and speed up the healing process,” it reads. It shows an ...

Has Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology successfully created and tested a coronavirus vaccine? That’s the claim on the website News 7PM. Coronaviruses are a large family of ...

“As I stop supporting China Malls,” reads text on a screenshot of a Facebook post, reposted on 15 May 2020. It shows a photo of a sign on a wall, in different languages. The English text reads: “DO ...

UPDATE: ON 4 May 2020 the World Health Organisation in a statement noted that medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua "are being considered as possible treatments for COVID-19 and should be tested ...

An eye-catching graphic, shared on Facebook, shows an oddly marked zebra foal apparently spotted by a photographer in Kenya. “Rare Zebra foal with polka-dot markings is seen in Maasai Mara by ...

A message posted on Facebook in Nigeria claims that a “home remedy” can aid the thyroid, preventing “mouth odour, infection of the lung sometimes swelling of the neck (goiter)”. It advises making a ...

“Circumcised men likely to die after 10 years,” says a post shared on Facebook in Uganda. It claims research by “Deltas Clare, a US NGO” has concluded that “those who are circumcised are likely to die ...

We used data from The World Bank and the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics, and only included police officers ‘on the ground’ (excluding administrative staff). Kenya’s police to population ratio in ...

A message shared on Facebook in Nigeria advertises a “herbal cure for athritis”, listing common foods such as grapes, lime, honey, ginger and garlic as the healing ingredients. The post includes a ...

“Garlic helps remove pain in ears, ear infections and headaches quickly and effectively,” claims a message posted on Facebook in Nigeria. It adds: “Simply, put a cleaned garlic clove in your ear - it ...