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False: No, Kenya's Citizen TV didn't report that governor of Kisumu county Anyang' Nyong'o revealed his HIV status IN SHORT: A short-lived decision by Twitter to remove verification badges left many media organisations vulnerable to impersonation, before the policy was partly reversed. One of the victims was Kenya's Citizen TV. Did Kenya's mainstream channel Citizen TV report on the HIV statu (Source: Africa Check)

False: No, Nigeria's supreme court hasn't ruled in favour of Peter Obi's Labour Party as video claims IN SHORT: A video circulating on social media in Nigeria claims that the country's supreme court has ruled on a controversial petition to overturn Bola Tinubu's victory in the March 2023 presidential election. But this is not true - the petition has not yet reached the court. A v (Source: Africa Check)

Scam: Ignore scam Facebook account impersonating Kenya's first lady and offering loans IN SHORT: Sometimes our attempts to debunk false Facebook pages and fake loan offers feel futile. But when we spotted the same phone number used on a page we debunked just a week ago, we knew this one in Rachel Ruto's name was fake too. The Facebook account Rejel Ruto claims to o (Source: Africa Check)