for questions about claims based in Africa, or limited in Africa.
Questions tagged [africa]
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Was electricity ever free in Gaddafi's regime?
The internet is full of stories that Gaddafi's Libya was an Utopia. Like:
Is this stuff about Libya true? at thestudentroom.co.uk
The Amazing Things Moammar Gadhafi Did For Libya at rense.com
Could anyone confirm whether this claim about free…
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Did Libya's Central Bank offer loans at 0% interest?
I just watched The illuminati Exposed By Muammar Gaddafi. It's a really good watch (especially for us skeptics), but at one point they said that the reason Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown was, not because he was a bad, unpopular or corrupt leader…
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Does food aid cause famines?
This article claims:
While all efforts should be made to get emergency food aid to Africa
during this famine, the tradition of US food aid in Africa is actually
part of the problem. Giving food to the hungry seems like the epitome
of charity,…
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Are three quarters of immigrants "flooding Europe today" from central Africa?
In a November 16, 2016 op-ed in the New York Times titled Donald Trump, Help Heal the Planet’s Climate Change Problem, Thomas L. Friedman claims:
When you visit the Pentagon, ask the generals about climate change. Here’s what they’ll tell you: A…
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Are high temperatures the cause of nudity being not unusual amongst the Daasanach?
From the second page of I Photographed Women In 60 Countries To Change The Way We See Beauty:
Her tribe is called the Daasanach. With the high temperatures here,
nudity is not unusual.
Amongst the Daasanach, is nudity not unusual, and are high…
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Did Libyan brides get a USD 90000 dowry from the government?
This pro-Gaddafi source used in this answer makes the claim that, amongst other benefits Libyan citizens get from the Gaddafi government, Libyan brides get a 90000 USD dowry from the government:
Every Libyan bride is granted about US$90,000 dowry…
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Do African Immigrants have the highest academic achievement in the U.S. of any ethnic group?
An article doing the rounds on my Facebook feed claims that African immigrants are the most successful group in the United States when it comes to academic achievement. African-born immigrants are more likely to be college educated than any other…
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Is Mungiki one of the world's most dangerous gangs?
This website claims that the slums of Nairobi is the most inhospitable place in the world, because of the Mungiki:
Operating in the slums of Nairobi this extremely violent gang syndicate stands at about 100,000 members strong. In the past its…
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African Pentecostal Witch Hunting Guide real?
I found this online: "The African Pentecostal Church's Guide of Inquisitions of Witches and Magicians in the African Continent - 1989 (Translated from the Swahili Manuscript of the late Bakari Sudi Jabari)"
I can't find any reliable sources to…
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Did France refuse to interview the Belarusian mercenary pilots which killed 9 French soldiers, even though France allegedly had the opportunity?
An old story regarding the 2004 French–Ivorian mini-war. During those events 9 French soldiers were killed by two Su-25 jets, allegedly piloted by Belarusian mercenaries.
According to Le Monde, one of the odd things about that is that despite the…
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Did Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni hand the national flag to intercessors in 1997 in the midst of a Christian revival?
World Trumpet Mission, an international revivalist ministry founded in 1988 in the Republic of Uganda by John Mulinde, presents the following historical timeline on their website (emphasis mine):
In particular, the timeline claims that in 1997,…
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Are these pictures of the recent terrorist attack in Kenya (NSFW)?
There is a post going around facebook about the recent terrorist attack in Kenya with the following pictures (spoiler'ed for queezy stomachs):
Warning, graphic images (18+):
And the following description:
A vicious murderous massacre of…
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Does Africa have to choose between renewable energy and economic growth?
Speaking at an energy conference in Moscow, Russia's president Vladimir Putin was critical of renewable energy. He seems to claim that it is a choice between fossil fuel driven economic development or renewable energy.
People in Africa and in…
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Did Food Prices Spur the Arab Spring?
Dalia Mortada writes for PBS in Did Food Prices Spur the Arab Spring?:
One of the driving forces behind the Arab Spring, some contend, is the high cost of food. A combination of shrinking farmlands, weather and poor water allocation is helping…
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Are the only remaining polio cases in Africa vaccine-derived?
World Polio Day: Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated:
Salisbury also said no WPV1 has been detected anywhere on the African continent since 2016. Several African nations, however, are still reporting cases of circulating vaccine-derived…
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