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Fighting for honesty and truth

Africa Check is helping the public to stay informed about the facts

Fake news

No lie is too blatant

Fake reports on Filipino Facebook pages

Right-wing authoritarianism

Powerful falsehoods

How Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, depends on online trolls

Why it would make sense to pardon Lula

Brazil's former president has surrendered to the police

A primer on post-truth life in Moscow

In Russia, nothing is true and everything is possible

Southern Africa

New brooms sweeping clean?

Political upheaval is taking place from the Congo to South Africa

Latin America

The grim legacy of dictatorship

Since the end of the military dictatorship, Argentina’s governments have found it difficult to deal with the armed forces

African Union

Wrong chairman

In spite of his merits, Rwandan President Kagame is the wrong man to head the African Union

Democracy

Crisis of legitimacy

Kenya’s government strikes out against the opposition like a wounded buffalo

Awards

An unconvincing choice

Why Ellen Johnson Sirleaf should not be awarded the Mo Ibrahim Prize

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