Claim: Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim Rwanda has appointed a "19-year-old boy" as "minister of new technologies and development". This is false; there is no ministry by that name, and the Rwandan government told AFP Fact Check the reports were incorrect. The young man in the photo featured in posts is in fact a teenager from London.
Fact-check: Facebook rumour falsely claims Rwanda has appointed a 19-year-old minister
Verdict: facebook rumour falsely claims rwanda has appointed a 19-year-old minister
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Marin Lefevre
Date published: 2020-10-07T16:56:00