Kenya deployed its military in the East African country’s capital of Nairobi to quell the unrest caused by anti-tax bill protests, during which human rights groups say 30 people died. Social media users shared an image claiming to show soldiers riding on a tank in solidarity with demonstrators on the streets.
But the claim is misleading: while AFP witnessed protestors celebrating with the Kenya Defence Forces during the latest protests, the image in question is from Zimbabwe’s 2017 coup, and not Kenya in 2024.The post includes an image of uniformed soldiers standing on top of, and alongside, a tank surrounded by a large crowd.
on image and video hosting service Flickr captioned “Zimbabwe tells Robert Mugabe to go! Solidarity March,” posted on November 18, 2017, without a photographer credited (archivedAFP and the Associated Press covered the coup and published similar images of Zimbabwean soldiers on tanks interacting with civilians.
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