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No, the Department of Justice has not cleared US President Donald Trump of pending impeachment charges

Published on 20 January 2020 at 11:31Updated on 21 January 2020 at 16:27

Multiple Facebook posts shared thousands of times in Nigeria claim the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ruled in favour of President Donald Trump in his looming impeachment battle, declaring him innocent of the charges he is facing. This is false: AFP explains here how US impeachment works and what role the DoJ plays.

No, this is an al-Qaeda militant guarding a checkpoint in Iraq

Published on 17 January 2020 at 13:22

An image of a man holding a rifle, alongside a claim that members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are now erecting roadblocks in some parts of the country’s north has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook. But the picture was shot in 2014 and shows an al-Qaeda militant standing guard at a checkpoint in Iraq, making the claim false.

No, these images are screenshots from scenes in various Nigerian movies -- and have nothing to do with killer herdsmen

Published on 17 January 2020 at 12:55

A Facebook post shared hundreds of times claiming to show victims of a machete attack by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria is false. The claim itself relies on lifelike images of murder scenes depicted in various Nigerian movies that belong to a portfolio of work by a local special-effects artist.

GRAPHIC CONTENT DISCLAIMER: All the images in this post are movie stills and do not show real-life violence.

Viral photo shows a Yemeni man with his daughter just before her burial -- and he was not seeking funds

Published on 10 January 2020 at 09:44Updated on 13 January 2020 at 08:17

A viral photo of a small girl and a crying man has been shared more than 100,000 times in a Facebook post claiming to show a father in need of more than $70,000 for his daughter’s surgery. The claim is false; the picture has been circulating on social media alongside varying claims, but it actually shows a Yemeni man carrying his daughter after she was killed in an airstrike.

Don’t panic, Nigeria: Trump hasn’t threatened to attack. Two “tweets” from the US President’s Twitter account were fabricated

Published on 10 January 2020 at 09:30Updated on 13 January 2020 at 11:01

Two images shared in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp in Nigeria claim to show tweets from US President Donald Trump warning he will attack the West African country for supporting Iran in the wake of rising tensions between the two sparring nations. However, both images have been digitally altered to look like they were sent from Trump’s personal account and are false.

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