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Image Published on 30/09/2022 Clickbait post lures Ethiopians with false ‘Safaricom cash promotion’ for thanksgiving festival
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 27/09/2022 Posts falsely claim Joseph Ole Lenku was elected chairman of Kenya’s Council of Governors
Image Published on 23/09/2022 Screenshot shows former Ethiopian minister defending doctoral thesis online, not BBC interview
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 22/09/2022 Headline claiming Kenyan president threatened current chief justice years ago was doctored
Image Published on 21/09/2022 Long-tailed critter is a replica of a prop from the movie 'Alien', not a real arthropod
Image Published on 20/09/2022 Nigerian law will prohibit all foreigners appearing in adverts, not specifically white models
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 19/09/2022 Video makes false claims about Kenyan election based on debunked content
Image Nigeria elections 2023 Published on 16/09/2022 Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi subject of hoax claim about attack on convoy
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 16/09/2022 Posts share false claims about Kenya’s Raila Odinga landing UN job after losing presidential election
Image Published on 15/09/2022 Photos show contraband smuggled into South Africa from Zimbabwe, not other way round
Image Published on 14/09/2022 Articles misleadingly claim Nigeria ranks 'second most terrorised country'
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 14/09/2022 Video shows government vehicle during by-election in Uganda, not rigging vote in Kenya
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 09/09/2022 Clip shows lawyers being removed from regional assembly, not Kenya election challenge hearing
Image Published on 09/09/2022 Photo shows woman detained at a political event in Ethiopia, not nanny arrested for murder
Image Nigeria elections 2023 Published on 08/09/2022 Nigerian governor pictured at protest in 2021, not at rally for Labour Party’s Peter Obi
Image Published on 08/09/2022 Video of fatal road accident was filmed in Chicago, not Kenya’s capital Nairobi
Image Published on 07/09/2022 Photo shows hostages rescued by Cameroonian special forces, not Nigerian troops in Abia
Image Published on 02/09/2022 Online posts falsely claim CNN journalist named son after Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 01/09/2022 Video shows Kenyan president speaking at memorial last year, not after 2022 election
Image Published on 01/09/2022 Photo of Indonesia storm aftermath falsely shared as 'deadly wedding accident in China'
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 31/08/2022 Photo shows US crash-landing, not plane downed by military in Ethiopia
Image Published on 30/08/2022 Data shows Lagos is not Africa’s third-biggest economy, as claimed by officials of Nigerian ruling party
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 30/08/2022 Video shows Kenyan president speaking after annulled 2017 election, not post-2022 poll
Image Published on 29/08/2022 Crowd shot taken at 2019 rally for Nigerian president, not aspirant leader Bola Tinubu
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 26/08/2022 Hoax document shared as internal memo does not show staff fired from Kenya Power
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 24/08/2022 Kenyan officials corrected tallying error that TikTok video wrongly claimed was proof of rigged polls
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 23/08/2022 Video from 2013 doctored to falsely show Odinga conceding defeat to Kenya’s president-elect Ruto
