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Des photos des pièces archéologiques trouvées par des orpailleurs et mises en vente sur Facebook.

En Mauritanie, la ruée vers l’or se transforme en trafic d’objets archéologiques
Our Observer Osman Salih took this photo of the starving lions in the Khartoum zoo.

Sudanese people mobilize to save starving lions in a Khartoum zoo

A farm operator walks through a swarm of locusts that are part of the wave that descended on Kenya in December (Credit: K24 TV).

Kenyan farmers suffer as swarms of locusts devastate their land
Social media in India is full of videos purporting to show Anil Upadhyay, who they claim is an elected official. The France 24 Observers looked into who he really is. (screengrabs from videos shared on social media)

Unmasking Indian politician Anil Upadhyay, a ‘man of many faces’
Five amateur videos filmed along a 1,600-metre stretch of Tehran's Azadi Street on January 12, 2020, document the use of teargas and shotguns as Iranians gathered to protest their government's shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner.

Videos document injuries as Iran’s police swap Kalashnikovs for shotguns
Screengrabs of videos circulating on social media that show security forces firing on civilians during protests in Guinea.

Did police in Guinea fire on protesters?
Entire neighbourhoods in Alexandria transform into puddles of wastewater during the rainy winter months. (Photos posted on Facebook)

How city hall’s promises to clean up Alexandria, Egypt get washed away by winter floods
Japanese Internet users have been posting photos of themselves imitating Carlos Ghosn’s daring escape from Japan. Photos from Twitter.

The ‘Carlos Ghosn challenge’ spreading on Japanese social media

Volunteers make fabric pouches to replace the marsupial pouches; photos shared by members of the Facebook group "Animal Rescue Craft Guild".

The volunteers knitting pouches, mittens for Australia's burned koalas
People on social media have been sharing images of what they say are US soldiers leaving for war with Iran (Photos from Facebook)

No, these photos do not show American soldiers going off to war with Iran

Before the police arrested him, Cédric Chouviat was filming them (photo at left). Chouviat was restrained in a prone position, which likely led to his death.

French delivery man's death sparks debate over controversial police restraint technique
Volunteers plant mangrove saplings along a river flat in Sankandi, The Gambia. Photo sent by our Observer.

The people planting mangroves to revive a Gambian community
Chinese nationals vandalized these crosses, which were adorned with messages of support for Hong Kong protesters.

Why are Chinese and Hong Kong visitors to a Lithuanian memorial site fighting over crosses?
This woman, who was displaced by the civil war in Libya, now lives in an unfinished building in Tripoli. (Photos posted on Facebook)

Families displaced by fighting in Tripoli forced to live on the street

Fake images of the wildfires in Australia have been circulating on social media. Our team took a look at five of these images that are getting a lot of traction.

Rescued koalas and kangaroos: five fake images from Australia's fires
On the left, a photo of Iranian graffiti praising Trump; on the right, a rocket blast in Israel.

Fake news spreads online after Soleimani killing
La Primera Linea protests on Plaza Italia in Santiago. (Photo: @Chile_Despert0)

Front-line activists 'Primera Linea' protect Chile's protesters, but some criticize their methods
There are quite a few photos and videos purporting to show violence against the Chinese Uighur Muslim minority that are circulating on social media. It turns out that many of these photos tell an entirely different story.

How fake images of Uighur persecution are hurting their cause
The video that has been circulating online doesn’t show an assassination attempt – it’s actually a demonstration staged by soldiers.

Does this video show an assassination attempt on a Saudi prince?

The France 24 Observers team debunked 128 doctored or wrongly attributed images this year. Check out our top selection.

Our top fact-checks from 2019
Three amateur images that marked 2019. (Photomontage by the France 24 Observers)

Ten amateur images that marked 2019
The Guinean man who created a film about migration; yoga for refugees in Lebanon; an anti-migrant militia in the United States.

Our Observers' top stories on migration in 2019
Photo of the metal barricades surrounding the Lebanese Parliament in Beyrouth. (Photo: Annahar)

Lebanon's 'wall of shame' built to keep protesters away from parliament
In the photo of the left, an Iranian police officer shoots at someone. In the video on the right, protesters throw stones.

'Iran’s Hidden Slaughter': a video investigation
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