⚽️ A video claiming to show a drone tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira after Portugal's 2026 World Cup exit is not real. The clip is AI-generated. Read more: u.afp.com/WCR7

Posts claiming a video shows the aftermath of attacks in Ethiopia's Oromia region are false. The footage shows a fire that destroyed a displacement camp in Sudan's northern Darfur region in May. Read more: u.afp.com/Oromia

A speech delivered by Ethiopian army chief Birhanu Jula has been shared as criticism of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. But the clip has been altered and presented out of context. Birhanu's address on national sovereignty never mentioned Abiy. u.afp.com/SrZj

Amid anti-migrant tensions in South Africa, a video claims that Nigerian students ordered South Africans out of Nigeria. But the clip contains unrelated footage, among them a 2019 video of a former student leader speaking out against xenophobia. Read more: u.afp.com/NGUltimatum

Images of wounded children shared after the recent school abductions in Nigeria do not show kidnapping victims. The photos date to 2020 and show children who were abused by a teacher in Niger. Read more: u.afp.com/Niger

🇿🇦 A photo claiming Zulu women staged a protest in support of their foreign husbands has circulated online. But the image was taken at an anti-immigrant rally in Johannesburg in February 2022. Read more: u.afp.com/ZuluWomen

A video claiming to show Botswana's President Duma Boko responding to South Africa's anti-immigrant protests is misleading. Boko was actually addressing Zimbabwe–Botswana migration and referenced protests in the UK, not South Africa. Read more: u.afp.com/DumaBoko

🇿🇦 As anti-immigrant protests escalate in South Africa, images and videos purporting to show xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals have spread online. But some are old and unrelated to the current unrest. Read more: u.afp.com/SA2026

Tech billionaire Elon Musk blames South Africa's post-apartheid redress laws for his failure to secure a licence for his satellite internet service Starlink. However, claims that a video shows him refusing to shake hands with SA's President Cyril Ramaphosa are false u.afp.com/SatZ

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🇮🇷 Social media posts have circulated an image of a pink missile with a Farsi inscription claiming it was made at the request of an Iranian girl to target Israel. But it is not real; the image is AI-generated. Read more: u.afp.com/PinkMissile

🇳🇬 After a deadly attack in Nigeria’s Plateau State on Palm Sunday, a video of a grieving woman circulated online with claims she lost her family in the violence. But the footage is unrelated; it is from a 2025 documentary. Read more: u.afp.com/NGPalmSunday

🇿🇦 Protests tied to the alleged coronation of a Nigerian 'king' in South Africa’s Eastern Cape escalated into violence in late March 2026. But a circulating clip of burning taxis does not show the unrest; the footage is from 2021. Read more: u.afp.com/NigerianKing

Our Abuja-based fact-checker in Nigeria, Samad Uthman, scooped top prize at the African Fact-Checking Awards in Senegal for debunking an AI-generated video touting a fake herbal cure u.afp.com/Sbd7

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🇮🇳 A clip showing India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaring war on Pakistan and Iran is doctored. The original footage shows his NXT Summit 2026 address, where he made no such remarks. Read more: u.afp.com/ModiIran

🇳🇬 A video shared online claiming to show Nigerians rallying for Israel and the US in the war against Iran is being misrepresented. The footage dates to a 2018 Biafra protest. Read more: u.afp.com/BiafraRally

Iran has fired countless missiles at Israel and other targets in the Middle East, but an image of a warhead with a Persian inscription honouring Jeffrey Epstein's victims is fake. The tribute was digitally added to an AI rendering of a Khorramshahr missile u.afp.com/SLHf

In the heat of the Middle East war, images purportedly showing cars on fire in Tel Aviv following an Iranian strike have been shared online. But the images are actually from anti-government protests held in Iran in January. Read more: u.afp.com/BurningCars

🇰🇪 As Nairobi reels from floods that have killed at least 70 people, AI-generated visuals are circulating online, falsely claiming to show the devastation. Read more: u.afp.com/Nairobi

AI fakes showing captured US soldiers and burning embassies are flooding X during the Middle East war. Even after the platform announced a crackdown, AFP found the content is still spreading, often from premium accounts with blue checkmarks. Read more here: u.afp.com/SLPk

This video was said to show a drone hitting a hotel housing US officers in Bahrain. But we found the footage corresponds to a Russian attack on a residential building in Kyiv in January. Read more: u.afp.com/SLeY

✈️ Social media posts claiming the US and Israel bombed painted aircraft decoys in Iran are false. The images are AI fakes; not real strikes. Read more: u.afp.com/Decoy

As Iran retaliates against Gulf states after US-Israeli strikes, online posts claim to show Iranian missiles hitting the King Fahd Causeway linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But the footage is old; it shows the Crimean bridge explosion in 2022. Read more: u.afp.com/Fahd

🚢 Iran claimed it struck the USS Abraham Lincoln after war erupted in the Middle East, a claim denied by the Pentagon and US Central Command. A clip purportedly showing the warship listing at sea is AI-generated. Read more: u.afp.com/Carrier

Images purporting to show American soldiers captured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have spread across social media. However, the supposed pictures were generated by artificial intelligence, as is evidenced by visual inconsistencies and the watermark for Google's Gemini AI tool u.afp.com/SuE8

💣️ The Middle East war has proved to be fertile ground for generating AI images of destruction, like one video purporting to show missiles raining down on Tel Aviv. AFP Fact Check analysed the clip and found the footage is fabricated u.afp.com/SuKv

Images of war in the Middle East are all over social media – many of them genuine, but some fabricated with AI. Learn to tell the difference with our open-access course on verifying AI-generated content 👉 u.afp.com/AIdetection

🚢 Days after war broke out in the Middle East, posts circulated claiming to show the US military base in Djibouti under attack by Iran. However, the footage was taken in 2025 and shows an explosion attributed to paramilitary forces at Port Sudan u.afp.com/Su8a