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  • 2021-11-25 (xsd:date)
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  • UDA supporters awaiting Ruto in Kisumu, Kenya? No, photo of crowd in green and yellow snapped in Tanzania, in 2015 (en)
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  • Kenya’s August 2022 general election is still more than eight months away, but the main contenders for the presidency have been campaigning at political rallies for a while now. Raila Odinga , a former prime minister and today leader of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement , toured eastern Nairobi on 7 November 2021 to address crowds in a bid to garner votes. Three days later William Ruto – Odinga’s main rival, the current deputy president and leader of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – spoke at a rally in Kisumu county on Lake Victoria in western Kenya. In previous elections, Kisumu voters have strongly supported Odinga. On 9 November, the day before Ruto’s rally, a photo of a huge crowd stretching into the distance, dressed in green and yellow, was posted on Facebook. Green and yellow are the colours of the UDA . Kondele residents waiting for the mighty Dp Ruto to land. #HustlersNation, the caption reads . Kondele is an urban neighbourhood in Kisumu. But in the comments , several users expressed doubt. Ccm tz, one said, meaning they thought the photo was from Tanzania. Uku ni Zimbabwe bna, said another, in Kiswahili – This is Zimbabwe, man. Does the photo show a huge crowd in UDA colours, waiting for Ruto’s arrival in Kisumu? Rally in Dar es Salaam A reverse image search reveals that the photo is more than six years old. It’s one of a set posted on the Twitter account of Tanzania’s ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi – The Revolutionary Party – on 23 October 2015. Thousands of CCM supporters attending a campaign rally in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. #TanzaniaElections pic.twitter.com/auQRTzaLzT — Chama Cha Mapinduzi (@ccm_tanzania) October 23, 2015 The photo shows a rally at the Jangwani field in Dar es Salaam. The Tanzanian blog JamiiForums posted a video of the rally on its YouTube page a day later. The photo also appears in news reports on Tanzania’s 2015 election. It does not show Ruto’s supporters in November 2021. (en)
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