Samad Uthman
Digital Investigations Journalist at AFP Fact Check
Digital investigations journalist @AFPFactCheck| ex @thecableng, @Theicir, @dataphyte | @Pulitzercenter grantee | Ekun oko Ayoka🤴
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Samad Uthman
“UPDF soldiers killed in South Sudan. It’s a shame and painful thing to die in a war that doesn’t concern you,” reads the text overlay on a TikTok video published on April 1, 2025. UPDF stands for Uganda People’s Defence Force. In the video, onlookers watch as individuals dressed in combat uniforms carry coffins to place them in graves. Wailing and shouting can be heard in the background. The post was published by an account named “cleverkiss”.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Samad Uthman
Samad UTHMAN and Nicholas ROLL with AFP bureaus in Nairobi and KinshasaTue, April 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM UTC4 min readAs clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Samad Uthman
Following his emergence in 2022 as the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore and his government have regularly received praise on social media for infrastructure and development milestones that are unrelated to the country. One example is a video posted on Facebook that purportedly shows a massive low-cost high-rise residential block constructed under Traore’s leadership.
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4 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Samad Uthman
As the Kremlin deepens its footprint in Africa to counter the influence of the West, a post on TikTok claims Russia has removed visa requirements for all African states. However, this is misleading; only six African countries enjoy visa-free entry to Russia, and an update on the status of a proposed visa-free programme for all African countries has not been announced since a key Moscow diplomat hinted at it in 2023.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Samad Uthman
Fulani militias have been linked to deadly attacks and mass displacement across Nigeria. A Facebook post, using screenshots of article headlines, has claimed that US President Donald Trump has designated Nigerian Fulani herders as the world’s fourth most dangerous terrorist group. But this is false; the post relies on a decade-old article about the rankings in the 2015 Global Terrorism Index.
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