30th March: Africa Fact Check Round-Up

Here is today’s roundup of fact-checks across Africa:

Claim: Video shows protesters during the opposition-led 20 March 2023 demonstrations in Kenya.

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: “This struggle will continue, stronger and mightier with each vile response, until our demands are met” – Raila Odinga

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni ban homosexuality in the country

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Ugandan and US presidents have Twitter spat over anti-gay rights law, exchange fabricated 

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Video claims to shows rival groups fighting at 2023 football tournament in Democratic Republic of Congo

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: South African opposition leader Julius Malema called for Nigeria’s break-up

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: There is a 4,070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women who took the Covid vaccine

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Video shows fire at Kenyan former president Uhuru Kenyatta’s hotel

Verdict: FAKE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Tanzanian president makes undiplomatic remark about Kenyan deputy president

Verdict: ALTERED

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Former military governor did not write a message to Nigeria’s president-elect in 2023 

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Africa Check

Claim: Video shows ex-Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s reaction to the invasion of his family’s Northlands farm in Ruiru, Kiambu County

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

Claim: The Earth’s temperature rise by 1.5℃ since 1900

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

Claim: The price of Safaricom shares fell by 5.6 per cent on the first day of the boycott announcement by the opposition Azimio coalition

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

Claim: Moderna Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stéphane Bancel admitted to making a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine before the global outbreak of the virus

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

Claim: Climate change is caused by the sun

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

Claim: Microwave transmissions trigger earthquakes

Verdict: FALSE

Source: Pesa Check

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