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Image Nigeria elections 2023 Published on 18/10/2022 Nigerian presidential candidate Bola Tinubu understates country's 2015 oil production
Image Published on 18/10/2022 Video shows paratroopers crashing into a crowd in Honduras, not in Uganda
Image Published on 18/10/2022 NATO air strikes in Libya did not cause 'half a million civilian casualties' in 2011
Image Nigeria elections 2023 Published on 13/10/2022 Photos show armed men at protest against Boko Haram in 2011, not a recent political rally
Image Published on 07/10/2022 Experts say antivenom, not herbs, is the only effective antidote to toxins from snake bites
Image Nigeria elections 2023 Published on 06/10/2022 Edited image of sickly man does not show Nigerian presidential hopeful Bola Tinubu in hospital
Image Published on 05/10/2022 Tiktok video revives mermaid claims with footage from fictionalised documentary
Image Published on 04/10/2022 Zimbabwe hoax posts lure users with false claims about financial aid programme
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
