Segun Sowunmi, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claimed in a recent interview on national television that the joint announcement by Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso about the trio’s withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), came 24-36 hours after Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is the chairman...
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FACT CHECK: Did Macron say France would not ‘hand over’ Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger?
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, has been quoted as saying in a video that his country would not hand over Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. The claim was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, alongside the video of Macron. At the time of retrieval from the microblogging platform, the post, made by a...
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FACT CHECK: Did Angry Camerounians Disrupt President Biya’s 40 Years in Power Celebration in France?
A video making the rounds on Whatsapp depicts the moment angry Cameroonians stormed the venue of an event said to be the celebration of President Paul Biya’s 40th year in office. We transcribed the video, which is originally in French to English and the people in the video were saying, “Come out, get out,...