Here is today’s roundup of fact-checks across Africa:
Claim: As a result of measles vaccination, “children are now suffering” from “adverse effects, some serious”.
Verdict: UNPROVEN
Source: Africa Check
Claim: The measles vaccines being given to children “could” be “traditional measles shots, mRNA based measles shots, or C-19 shots”.
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: The measles vaccine can be “shed, causing the virus to be spread to others”.
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Facebook page Free Joining Illuminati Nakuru Temple will change people’s fortune overnight by recruiting them to the “Illuminati brotherhood”.
Verdict: SCAM
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Garlic water can treat a yeast infection
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: US President, Joe Biden, wearing a diaper after he slipped and fell at an event.
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Dubawa Ghana
Claim: Ghanaian Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, flew a private jet to Monaco to celebrate his 55th birthday.
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Dubawa – Ghana
Claim: Images shows Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) militants near River Tekeze in May 2023
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Photo supposedly of police dispersing a group protesting against the 2023 Finance Bill in Nairobi on 6 June 2023
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: A Facebook page belonging to Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Muwanda Nkunyingi said the MP is giving school fees to the needy
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Kenyan President William Ruto chewing khat
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi remained standing the entire Nigerian presidential inauguration on 29 May 2023
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Arctic sea ice is not declining because of climate change
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
