False claims have been circulating online since the military took over in Niger.
BBC Verify, Nairobi
Another video - viewed more than 500,000 times on TikTok - wrongly presents old footage of Wagner fighters in Africa as the first visual confirmation of their presence in Niger.broadcast by the France 24 news channel in January last year, talking about Wagner's presence in Mali rather than Niger. Another false claim circulating online following the coup suggested the new military leaders had "with immediate effect, banned the export of uranium to France".Some posts, like the one above, include largely accurate figures about uranium exports to France and the European Union, but there is no evidence the junta issued a ban on uranium exports to France when they took over.
"Algeria will not sit idly by while an invasion of a neighbouring country takes place," one Twitter post said, attributing this to "Algerian news outlets".
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