20 July 2024 – The person in the middle of the human tug of war is an Israeli West Bank settler, with Israeli police on one side and the settler’s comrades on the other. There is no Palestinian child to be seen.
11 July 2024 – The photo of a Ugandan military convoy was shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a year ago, not during Kenya’s recent youth-led tax protests.
8 July 2024 – The pic has prompted outrage on social media. But the women are simply student cadets at Kyiv university’s military institute, their heads bowed during a ceremony for fallen graduates.
17 June 2024 – South Africa has seen decades of xenophobic violence against people from elsewhere on the continent. But the video was shot in Haiti, and shows an attack on suspected members of powerful gangs.
10 June 2024 – “Beheaded babies!” the woman shouts into the camera in response to Israel’s airstrike on the Gaza city of Rafah. But she’s not the Vampire Diaries actor.
5 June 2024 – The West African country’s new military government has ordered US forces out and welcomed Russian “military trainers”. But the photo is unrelated, taken four years ago during the Syrian civil war.
3 June 2024 – The ICC’s chief prosecutor has applied for an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu for “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Israel’s attack on Gaza. But it’s only the first step in a long process, and no actual warrant has been issued.
10 May 2024 – All the video shows is a small contingent of Angolan cadets, students at a military institute in southern Russia, marching in a parade competition. They won the audience award – but didn’t join the Russian army.
22 April 2024 – Suggesting a third world war, the claim first appeared soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. But the doom merchants were just making stuff up.
15 April 2024 – Kenya was to lead a now-delayed international policing mission to quell gang violence in Haiti. But the X post reporting Africa’s “D-day style invasion” of the Caribbean country is not by CNN.
1 April 2024 – The viral video appeared online after a spate of school kidnappings by militants in northern Nigeria. But it shows a different conflict, in Cameroon.
22 March 2024 – Ethiopia’s massive hydroelectric dam could be Africa’s largest, although it’s sparked a row with Egypt over who owns the Nile. But the photo on social media shows the Tungabhadra Dam in southwestern India.
18 March 2024 – It’s an election year in South Africa, and most political parties campaign mainly on local issues. Just two could be said to “stand with Israel”.
29 February 2024 – The TikTok clip completely makes up the quote, using an edited and out of context video of Benjamin Netanyahu giving a speech in Uganda in 2016.
28 February 2024 – Western inaction against Rwanda for its role in the deadly M23 rebel conflict sparked protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Flags and tyres were burned, but no embassy was set on fire.
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