Questions tagged [africa]
for questions about claims based in Africa, or limited in Africa.
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Did Russia send 7 Su-57 Jets to escort Capt. Traore (Burkina Faso's junta leader)?
According to the "Make Afrika Great" YouTube channel, which has nearly a million subscribers,
Russia sent
7 Su-57 Jets to Escort Capt. Traore [.] Africa’s Dignity Restored
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Is the UAE sponsoring the RSF coup in Sudan?
According to a MEMO article titled "UAE behind RSF's attempted coup in Sudan, leaked recording says":
In the alleged audio recording, which could not be verified, a man media outlets ...
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Did France refuse to interview the Belarusian mercenary pilots which killed 9 French soldiers, even though France allegedly had the opportunity?
An old story regarding the 2004 French–Ivorian mini-war. During those events 9 French soldiers were killed by two Su-25 jets, allegedly piloted by Belarusian mercenaries.
According to Le Monde, one of ...
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Do African countries using Ivermectin have a better Covid-19 situation?
In the great Ivermectin debate, one frequently mentioned argument on the pro-side is a comparison among African countries. They argue that a set of countries in Africa having significantly lower cases ...
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Did Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni hand the national flag to intercessors in 1997 in the midst of a Christian revival?
World Trumpet Mission, an international revivalist ministry founded in 1988 in the Republic of Uganda by John Mulinde, presents the following historical timeline on their website (emphasis mine):
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Are the only remaining polio cases in Africa vaccine-derived?
World Polio Day: Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated:
Salisbury also said no WPV1 has been detected anywhere on the African continent since 2016. Several African nations, however, are still ...
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Does Africa have to choose between renewable energy and economic growth?
Speaking at an energy conference in Moscow, Russia's president Vladimir Putin was critical of renewable energy. He seems to claim that it is a choice between fossil fuel driven economic development ...
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Is the internet in Madagascar faster than in UK?
According to this article dated July 30 2019, the island nation of Madagascar has faster internet than the United Kingdom.
If you only know Madagascar because of that animated penguins film, you've ...
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Did France flood Guinea with counterfeit currency to destabilize it?
I've read in several Pan-Africanist and conspiracy theory sources (e.g. here and here) that France during the Fifth Republic smuggled in counterfeit Guinean Franc into Guinea in order to destabilize ...
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Do any people in South Africa traditionally spend two days together praising wrong-doers to help them?
I have seen variations on the following meme posted by many of my friends on Facebook:
https://me.me/i/ubuntu-in-certain-regions-of-south-africa-when-someone-does-4931579
In certain regions of ...
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Is it possible to determine if a person has had receptive anal sex through a physical exam?
Physical examinations of the anus are sometimes used in North Africa to determine if a man has practiced receptive anal sex, and hence has broken laws against homosexuality.
Here is one such report ...
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Are these women “for sale in the market in Libya”?
This post has been shared 142,000 times.
The associated text reads:
Women for sale in the market in Libya, we are against slave trade. If you are against slave trade Share
Are these women in Libya, ...
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Is Rub' al Khali the largest sand desert in the world?
This sentence appears in the Wikipedia article on Rub' al Khali.
The Rub' al Khali desert [note 1] (Arabic: الربع الخالي, i.e., "the Empty Quarter") is the largest continuous sand desert (erg) in ...
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Did 60% of polled South Africans say the country was better run during apartheid?
I have found several sites claiming that a study shows that over 60% of polled South Africans said the country was better run under apartheid - most notably, a 2002 Guardian article:
In a rebuke to ...
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Are high temperatures the cause of nudity being not unusual amongst the Daasanach?
From the second page of I Photographed Women In 60 Countries To Change The Way We See Beauty:
Her tribe is called the Daasanach. With the high temperatures here,
nudity is not unusual.
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