VIDEO; “Info or Intox” The slippages of a general in Uganda generates fake news in Kenya

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Skydivers who miss their landing? The video caused many mockeries among Kenyan Internet users. They assure that the scene was shot in neighboring Uganda during the ceremony of the 60 years of independence of the country, where the images were filmed in Honduras.

In recent days on Kenyan social networks, a video has gone viral. It shows paratroopers who miss their landing. Internet users who relay it make fun of it and claim that it is about Ugandan paratroopers during the ceremony of the 60 years of independence of Uganda. Why these jokes? They follow comments made on Twitter by the former commander of the Ugandan land forces who assured that his troops would invade Kenya. But the images that have gone viral are actually from Honduras.

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