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  • 2021-07-29 (xsd:date)
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  • No, photo of woman struggling to get water from basic well taken in Togo, not Kenya (en)
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  • A photo posted on a Kenya-based public Facebook group page in June 2021 shows a woman on the ground, reaching most of her body into a large muddy hole. Three water containers can be seen next to her. Text on the photo reads: Governor Kiraitu Boreholes. The photo is captioned : Only Kawira Mwangaza will save us. Billions za maji kiraitu amepeleka wapi? The second sentence, in Kiswahili, translates as: Where did Kiraitu take billions meant for water projects? Kiraitu Murungi is the governor of Kenya’s Meru county . Kawira Mwangaza represents the county in the national assembly . The two a re political rivals . The group page the photo was posted on has more than 38,000 members. But does the photo show a woman struggling to get water out of a basic well in Meru county? We checked. Reverse image search Using a reverse image search , Africa Check found the photo in two French-language articles on water availability in Africa, published in 2017. A machine translation of the caption in one of the articles reads: A woman fetching water in the Dapaong region of northern Togo. Togo is a country in West Africa. It’s more than 4,000 kilometres from Kenya , on the continent’s eastern coast. Dapaong is a city in northern Togo. The photo is more than four years old, and was likely taken in Togo. It doesn’t show a borehole in Kenya’s Meru county in 2021. (en)
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