A photo of burnt cows in a lorry was shared on January 14, 2021 in a tweet claiming that boda boda riders in Nakuru were responsible for the incident after one of them...
Author - John-Allan Namu
John-Allan is a Kenyan investigative journalist and the co-founder of Africa Uncensored. He has been a journalist for 14 years, based out of Nairobi, from where he has reported on issues and events in Kenya and the region. He has interviewed high-level politicians and power brokers from across the region, and investigated crimes committed in the highest reaches and lowest rungs of African society. John-Allan is the 2015 and 2017 joint journalist of the year Annual Journalism Excellence Awards, a 2015 Global Shining light award finalist, and the 2009 CNN African Journalist of the Year. He is a 2009 CNN fellow and a 2017 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow. He holds a BA in Journalism from the United States International University – Africa.
Has the US Senate Provided Contact for Ugandans to Send Human Rights Violations Videos During Elections?
A Twitter post shared under the #WeAreRemovingADictator hashtag on January 13, 2021, shared a contact supposedly provided by the United States Senate for Ugandans to...
A Facebook post shared on 11th January 2021 claims that Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has expressed his support for Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, on his...
A tweet shared on January 8, 2021, claims that a Kenyan man was photographed at the Capitol Hill riots. The post is accompanied by a screenshot from an article...
This viral tweet was shared on 30th December 2020, claiming that one Jonathan Kiprono, who is allegedly the Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC) Twitter admin, was...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, measures taken by several African countries to curb the spread of the virus mirrored those effected globally: border closures, nationwide...
Claims that the world has recorded its first successful rectal-ovary transplant have been shared on Instagram, YouTube and blogs such as Nigerian based The State Online...
An article published on September 6, 2020, by the Daily Monitor, a Ugandan independent daily newspaper, claims that the government of Uganda has admitted to mistakes in...
The screenshot below has been circulating on WhatsApp with claims that New Zealand has become the first country to pass a law that will grant victims of domestic...
An image was shared on Twitter purportedly showing a large group of people protesting farm murders in South Africa. #SouthAfrica #FarmMurders our cavalry and air force...