Claim: Video of Gabon's ex-senate president arrested in 2023 'trying to escape his country' with bags full of money? No, incident took place in 2022, is of a different leader
Fact-check: Video of Gabon's ex-senate president arrested in 2023 'trying to escape his country' with bags full of money? No, incident took place in 2022, is of a different leader
Verdict: a video circulating after the gabon coup claims to show the 2023 arrest of the country's former senate president. but the individual shown was detained in 2022 and was the former president of gabon's national assembly.
Organisation: Africa Check
Author: Wanjiru Kamau
Date published: 2023-09-26T00:00:00