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Image Published on 15/02/2022 Multiple false adverts for South African army training and jobs shared on social media
Image Published on 11/02/2022 Newly discovered 'highly infectious' HIV variant was detected in the Netherlands, not South Africa
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 11/02/2022 US, Canada and Australia are not offering ‘free’ asylum visas to Ethiopians fleeing Tigray conflict
Image Published on 11/02/2022 Viral photos show followers of religious group in Congo jumping, not flying
Image Published on 10/02/2022 This image shows Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands resort, not a hotel in Kenya
Image Published on 10/02/2022 False posts misrepresent photo of injured child as 'Moroccan boy trapped in well'
Image Published on 03/02/2022 This front page of The Guardian circulating in Kenya has been digitally altered
Image Kenya elections 2022 Published on 03/02/2022 Newspaper doctored to implicate Kenya’s deputy president in Mutula Kilonzo's death
Image Published on 03/02/2022 Posts falsely claim 'no one' came to South Korean president's sendoff ceremony in Egypt
Image Published on 02/02/2022 Republished central bank’s guidelines sparks misinformation about bank charges in Nigeria
Image Published on 01/02/2022 The South African government does not plan to offer free DNA testing from June 2022
Image Published on 27/01/2022 The International Criminal Court did not send letter denouncing Kenyan senator’s slur
Image Published on 27/01/2022 Story of milkman who fathered more than 800 children originates from satirical site
Image Published on 26/01/2022 Photo of old bus crash resurfaces with false claims of 39 deaths in Addis Ababa
Image Published on 26/01/2022 Uber has not announced any plans to bring its bus service to South Africa
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 26/01/2022 Old images resurface in false claim about blockades near Kobo in Ethiopia
Image Ethiopia conflict Published on 25/01/2022 Photos of Eritrean soldiers on patrol were taken in 2000 during the war with Ethiopia, not in 2022
Image Covid-19 Published on 24/01/2022 Video of expired Covid vaccines being destroyed in Nigeria recirculates in misleading posts
Image Published on 21/01/2022 Photos show Kenyan deputy president at a cultural festival, not visiting a witch doctor
Image Covid-19 Published on 20/01/2022 Posts falsely claim pneumonia caused by Covid-19 is allergic reaction
Image Published on 20/01/2022 Dialling 999 and pressing 55 to call for help in 'silent’ emergencies works in the UK, not SA
Image Published on 19/01/2022 Nigerian opposition party falsely claims the government spends over 98% of its budget on debt service
Image Published on 19/01/2022 This clip shows the arrest of suspects in the murder of Haiti’s president, not of French soldiers
Image Published on 19/01/2022 SA court has not ruled that unmarried couples living together for three years have the same property rights as married ones
Image Published on 19/01/2022 Old photo taken in Nigeria’s Ogun state falsely presented as new Abuja rice pyramids
Image US elections 2020 Published on 17/01/2022 Former Nigerian vice president fabricates Bernard Shaw quote in message to White House
