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2 months ago | 
factuel.afp.com | Emilie Béraud
Après la percée du groupe armé M23 ("Mouvement du 23 mars") et de ses alliés rwandais dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) fin janvier, les dirigeants d'Afrique de l'Est et d'Afrique australe ont appelé à un "cessez-le-feu immédiat et inconditionnel" dans la région de cet immense pays, ravagée par plusieurs décennies de conflit.
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2 months ago | 
factuel.afp.com | Emilie Béraud
Le groupe armé antigouvernemental M23 et les troupes rwandaises ont pris le 29 janvier 2025 le contrôle de Goma, grande ville de l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) et cœur économique d'une région riche en minerais. Le même jour, une dizaine de comptes et pages Facebook ont publié une vidéo montrant un groupe d'hommes blancs, alignés les uns derrière les autres sur une esplanade en béton.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
factuel.afp.com | Emilie Béraud
Depuis la mi-juillet, des publications cumulant des milliers de partages sur Facebook diffusent la vidéo d’un avion blanc et bleu, circulant à vitesse réduite sur une piste en terre battue.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
factuel.afp.com | Emilie Béraud
Depuis la mi-juillet 2024, des publications diffusent un extrait vidéo de 30 secondes sur Facebook et X, où l'on voit un groupe d'hommes violement jeter des sacs dans le coffre d'un pick-up blanc. En tendant l'oreille, pour tenter de discerner quelques mots parmi le brouhaha ambiant, on entend une voix masculine s'exclamer en anglais à la 28' seconde : "jobs, no rice" (des emplois, pas du riz). "La jeunesse ghanéenne rejette des sacs de riz offerts par les politiciens.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
On June 6, local authorities finally demolished a private home illegally built decades before on Abou Ali, a public beach about 50 miles north of Beirut – a major win for a group of NGOs and citizens called Coast for All. This group has come together to fight the illegal construction that is threatening the Lebanese coastline and preventing the public from accessing the sea and beaches.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
Viewed millions of times on TikTok, these videos claim to show rescues of sea turtles whose shells are covered in barnacles, algae and corals. But the reality is darker than that: the barnacles have been glued on, and the creatures aren't even sea turtles. It's all part of an operation to generate clicks and profit on social networks. Our Observer, director of a sea turtle observatory on Reunion Island, explains how these videos actually show scenes of animal abuse.
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May 23, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
If you only have a minute Posts shared thousands of times on Twitter since the beginning of April claim to show an advertisement in the New York subway, which is calling on homeless people to fight in Ukraine. However, Ukrainian officials have denied issuing a call like this and the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) said the poster didn’t look like other subway ads.
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May 8, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
According to a United Nations report published on May 2, the deadly fighting in Sudan and the humanitarian situation in the combat zones have forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes. Of these, 334,000 people have been displaced inside the country and 114,000 have taken refuge in neighbouring countries. Among the internally displaced, many have found refuge in the towns of Wad Madani, Shendi and Port Sudan.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
Fighting between the army and paramilitary forces has wracked Sudan since April 15, resulting in civilian casualties due to bombings, gunfire, and other forms of deadly violence. In the midst of this crisis, various social media posts are claiming to document events in Sudan using videos as evidence. However, some of these videos have been taken out of context, and may not accurately represent the situation on the ground.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
observers.france24.com | Emilie Béraud
People hunting for sport in northern Lebanon used automatic rifles to massacre dozens of rare wild birds traveling through the region on their migration route to Europe. Lebanese animal rights activists have denounced the cruelty of these hunters who slaughter these protected species with total impunity “for fun". Videos filmed in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon show people using “military weapons” to slaughter dozens of rare migratory birds.
