BBC Africa

November 17, 2025

BBC News fails to accurately and impartially report South Africa plane story

On the afternoon of November 14th the BBC News website published a report by Khanyisile Ngcobo in Jo...

November 9, 2023

BBC News promotes Gaza ‘genocide’ propaganda

As previously noted here, on November 2nd the BBC News website published a filmed report titled ‘I...

February 5, 2016

BBC Africa misrepresents campaigning reports as ‘scoop’

It is not difficult to discern when the BBC is running a campaign rather than merely reporting a sto...

May 8, 2015

Selective BBC reporting on explosions in Sudan implies Israeli involvement

In the early hours of May 6th confused reports began to emerge concerning explosions in Khartoum. &#...

July 22, 2014

Another BBC social media guidance failure

Meet Naziru Mikailu. He works for the BBC World Service/ BBC Africa. And he likes to Tweet. And ther...