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