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CLAIM: Rwanda President Paul Kagame has attacked the WHO and endorsed Madagascar’s claimed COVID-19 remedy RATING: FALSE: Kagame has not made any such comment. A post has gone viral on…
A post by the Ministry of Health and Child Care that 131 people had died from malaria so far this year stoked social media speculation, with some users saying these…
CLAIM : South Africa-Zimbabwe border to open on the 3rd of May 2020 to the 10th of May 2020 to accommodate Zimbabweans who are stranded in South Africa. RATING: FALSE.…
Viral social media posts claim that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, plans to test new coronavirus vaccines on Africans. And in a sermon on…
CLAIM: President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that rentals be suspended due to COVID-19 RATING: FALSE. A message circulating claiming rentals have been suspended is fabricated. A social media post claiming…
