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Image Published on 08/04/2022 No plans to demolish Ethiopia’s Yared School of Music in expansion of Oromia Supreme Court
Image Published on 07/04/2022 Old video shows Burkinabes fleeing jihadist gunmen, not Nigerians displaced by criminal gangs
Image Published on 06/04/2022 Photo shows Albanians on a ship to Italy in 1991, not Europeans fleeing World War II
Image War in Ukraine Published on 06/04/2022 Old photos of vehicles lined up at fuel stations in UK circulate in Kenya to justify local shortage
Image Published on 31/03/2022 Misleading posts circulate old visuals of Nigerian police protesting over outstanding pay
Image Published on 31/03/2022 Fabricated opinion poll does not show the state of play between Kenya’s main election rivals
Image Published on 18/03/2022 This picture shows a girl from Ethiopia’s Arbore tribe, not Mursi tribe
Image Published on 18/03/2022 Video shows first New York-Nairobi flight in 2018, not Kenya’s deputy president landing in the US
Image War in Ukraine Published on 17/03/2022 These images were taken in Melilla, and do not show African migrants fleeing Ukraine
Image Published on 15/03/2022 Old image shows Uganda’s police spokesperson demonstrating catapult, not shooting at journalist
Image War in Ukraine Published on 11/03/2022 Misleading posts circulate old footage of two Russian Tu-160 bombers arriving in South Africa
Image War in Ukraine Published on 09/03/2022 Fabricated news alert falsely claims Russian president told South Africa’s ANC to keep out of its affairs
Image War in Ukraine Published on 04/03/2022 False subtitles added to Putin’s Ukraine war declaration video to suggest African states are next
Image Published on 02/03/2022 Three South African policemen arrested for armed robbery and kidnapping in 2019, not 2022
Image Published on 01/03/2022 Old footage of Hushpuppi in Cyprus was taken years before his 2020 arrest for cyber fraud
Image Climate Published on 25/02/2022 Glaciers study misleadingly used to downplay sea level rise risk
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 24/02/2022 Facebook posts falsely claim that the US opened a consular office in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Image Published on 24/02/2022 Name of Uganda's Entebbe International Airport has not been changed to HUEN
Image Published on 22/02/2022 Video manipulated to show Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru pleading guilty at start of ICC trial
Image Published on 19/02/2022 Posts make misleading comparison of African countries competing at the Olympics
Image Published on 18/02/2022 Facebook post falsely claims that South African law allows citizens to arrest drug dealers
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 18/02/2022 BBC documentary shared on Facebook shows plight of Ethiopian migrants in a Saudi prison, but does not feature Jawar Mohammed
Image Published on 17/02/2022 Infographic wrongly shows Odinga beaten in four Western Kenya counties in 2013
Image Published on 17/02/2022 Photo shows child rescued in Syria after 2018 air strike — not 'Moroccan boy trapped in well'
Image Published on 16/02/2022 Old TV interview with Kenyan deputy president about land rights shared out of context
Image Published on 15/02/2022 Footage of a woman being defiled was a staged act from 2013 by an artist in Brazil, unrelated to Mali
