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Published on 26/07/2023

Edited clip of Zimbabwean opposition leader’s speech on land reform shared out of context

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Nigeria elections 2023
Published on 24/07/2023

Post falsely claims Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi handed win by election tribunal

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Kenya elections 2022
Published on 21/07/2023

Photo of Kenyan journalist misrepresented as plain-clothed police ‘harassing’ tax hike protesters

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Published on 21/07/2023

Old footage used in fake livestreams of Kenyan protests

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Published on 21/07/2023

False posts use old, unrelated images to claim diplomats are fleeing Kenya

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Published on 20/07/2023

Posts falsely claim image shows 2023 helicopter crash in Kenya’s Marsabit county

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Kenya elections 2022
Published on 19/07/2023

Old images on social media falsely linked to tax hike protest in Kenya

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Published on 18/07/2023

Old video shows Zimbabwe police beating opposition party members in 2019, not 2023

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Published on 14/07/2023

Photo of Congolese model digitally altered to add Nigerian separatist leader

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Published on 14/07/2023

Posts falsely claim old video shows Kenyan protesters storming Kitale police station

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Published on 14/07/2023

Video from Botswana showing cars on fire falsely linked to Kenyan motorsport rally

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Published on 14/07/2023

Posts falsely claim Nigerian president orders reopening of all land borders

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Published on 14/07/2023

Forged South African broadcaster tweet makes false claims about coalition talks

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Published on 12/07/2023

Nigerian governor appointed sister-in-law to cabinet, not daughter with the same name

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Published on 11/07/2023

Copycat Facebook page running fake Safaricom promotions in Ethiopia

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Published on 11/07/2023

Kenyan news channel misleadingly claims judiciary swore in controversial government appointees

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Published on 11/07/2023

Images show suspected kidnapper’s house demolished in Nigeria, not in Kenya

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Published on 10/07/2023

Photo of cash in plastic bags falsely linked to recent arrest in South Africa

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War in Ukraine
Published on 10/07/2023

Fake translation added to French president’s UN speech about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Nigeria elections 2023
Published on 10/07/2023

Post misleadingly claims Nigeria’s electoral body failed to call witness in case contesting poll result

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Published on 07/07/2023

Video shows Senegalese singer beaten up in Paris, not a government minister

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Published on 07/07/2023

Nigerian opposition leader overstates country’s housing deficit

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Published on 06/07/2023

Post falsely claims video confirms dissolution of ruling party in Ethiopia

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Published on 05/07/2023

Social media posts exaggerate death toll after collision kills scores in Kenya

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Published on 04/07/2023

Image shows Caribbean aircraft struck by birds, not Kenyan plane damaged by cow

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Published on 27/06/2023

Suitcases of cash seized in Bahamas in 2021 falsely linked to South Africa’s presidential protection unit

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Kenya elections 2022
Published on 22/06/2023

Old video of ex-Kenyan leader falsely shared as rebuke to his successor's electric motorbike pledge

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Published on 22/06/2023

Man booed outside Nigerian court is opposition politician, not suspended central bank boss

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