Here is today’s roundup of fact-checks across Africa:
Claim: Leaves from plantain plant is a remedy for venomous snake bites and scorpion stings
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Google specifically exclude Christian holidays like Easter from Google Doodles
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Ugandan state minister Agnes Nandutu try to escape from prison
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Russian president Vladimir Putin wished former South African president Jacob Zuma happy birthday
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu ‘serving 10-year jail term’ in the UK
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Suspected cult leader attending religious ceremony at Kenyan president’s residence
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Exercising and reducing salt and Maggi cannot reduce hypertension.
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Dubawa
Claim: Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka on Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s back
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Armed people in Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) uniform supposedly attacking Tulugana town and targeting the Amhara in the Oromia region
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Uganda’s Finance Minister Matia Kasaija had resigned
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Pope Francis suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) is a means of communicating with God
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Erectile dysfunction is caused by dirty blood
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar has resigned from active politics
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
Claim: It is impossible to extinguish an electric vehicle fire
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Pesa Check
