Clip showing a flooded road was filmed in Nigeria, not Ghana

Published on July 23, 2024 at 12:03
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By James OKONG'O, AFP Kenya, AFP Africa

Floods hit Accra in early July after the Ghanaian capital experienced a heavy downpour. Soon after, a clip emerged online claiming to show vehicles submerged in flood waters in Accra. But this is false: the video captured flooding in Lagos, Nigeria.

“Somewhere in Accra,” reads the X post published on July 3, 2024.

Screenshot showing the false post, taken on July 22, 2024

The clip shows several cars caught in traffic in a flooded section of a road.

As local media reported, on July 3, Accra experienced heavy rains that lasted several hours, causing water to accumulate on major roads and hindering traffic (archived here).

But the video circulating on social media does not show flooding in Accra.

Clip shows Lagos

Through a reverse image search on a screenshot from the footage, we found the original clip on the YouTube channel of Nigerian broadcaster Galaxy TV (archived here).

According to the news video, the images show cars stuck in flood waters in the Iyana Oworo area of Lagos, Nigeria.

A search on Google Maps for Iyana Oworo found the same footbridge to the one seen in the clip.

A side-by-side comparison of the bridge shared on social media(right) and the one on Google Maps

The Nigerian Tribune also featured the flood clip in a news report on July 3 (archived here).

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