The African Exponent media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places The African Exponent on the left. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The African Exponent biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The African Exponent on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The African Exponent left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The African Exponent on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The African Exponent reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The African Exponent are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The African Exponent has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The African Exponent’s own report linked underneath.
The United States has imposed new visa restrictions on certain South African nationals, citing race-based discrimination and uncompensated land seizures. South Africa has rejected the US allegations, stating the measures are based on mischaracterised policies and fringe group information.
The African Exponent reported it asThe US Just Sanctioned South Africa Over Their Own Land Reform Laws. Here's The Question Nobody In Washington Wants To Answer (opens The African Exponent in a new tab)
Hafidh Ameir Hassan, husband of Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, died on Monday, September 7, 2026, in Zanzibar. Vice President Deogratius Ndejembi announced the death, stating Hassan was being treated for a heart condition at Emilio Mzena Memorial Hospital.
The African Exponent reported it asHusband of Tanzania’s President Has Died, And It Hits On A Big Reality About Women In African Power (opens The African Exponent in a new tab)
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to use maps that more accurately represent the true relative sizes of countries and continents. The move, driven by African nations, seeks to correct distortions caused by the centuries-old Mercator projection.
The African Exponent reported it asWhy Did The Global Map Shrink Africa For Centuries Just To Make Western Powers Look Bigger? (opens The African Exponent in a new tab)
The United States sent 20 deportees to Liberia on 20 August 2026 as the first group of 1,200 migrants the country will receive under a new deportation deal. The majority had committed migration-related offences, Liberia’s justice minister said.
The African Exponent reported it asWhy Do African Leaders Keep Accepting Western Deportees While Sponsoring Modern Enslavement? (opens The African Exponent in a new tab)
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been absent from the country for two months, raising concerns about his health and governance. Opposition figures and residents in Yaoundé have questioned the prolonged stay, while recent military reshuffles add to uncertainty over leadership.
The African Exponent reported it asMind-Blowing Facts About The 93-Year-Old African President Governing His Country From A Swiss Hotel (opens The African Exponent in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The African Exponent.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Tanzania
- Official site
- africanexponent.com
- Seen publishing on
- africanexponent.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
5 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen The African Exponent cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The African Exponent: its report arrived a median of 32 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
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