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.
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.
20 May 2024 – Russia’s visa policy for Africa is more relaxed than those of the US and EU. But most African countries still need some kind of visa for travel to Russia.
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.
8 April 2024 – Vladimir Putin hasn’t said anything about Jesus’s skin colour. And the false claim ignores the art of many Christian traditions – including Africa’s ancient Ethiopian church.
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