Multiple claims have trailed the attendance of Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the inauguration of South Africa’s re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, South Africa. Ramaphosa, following the country’s general elections in May and his party’s alliance with the opposition, was sworn in for a second term of five years on June 19, 2024....
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FACT SHIELD: Key Lessons From Repeated Disinformation Targeting Former South African Leader, Mbeki
On January 3, 2024, as individuals and families on the African continent were sharing “happy new year” messages, the disinformation machine went into overdrive. The target of the disinformation was former South African President Thabo Mbeki. The false claim that flooded social media was that Mbeki, who succeeded anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, had died. This...
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Did Nigeria Apply To Join BRICS? All we know
On August 24, 2023, Linda Ikeji, a popular online blogger, posted that BRICS, an international grouping, which is made up of Russia, and emerging economies in the global South, rejected Nigeria’s bid to join it. This news went viral shortly after the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa, where the group invited six countries to...