A Website called Egypt Today based in Giza Governorate, Egypt, Published a news report entitled, “Tigray activist claims locals welcome TPLF, labels Abiy Ahmed’s policies “childish” alongside an image that’s supposed to delineate the story. The Image shows armed soldiers on a battlefield, considered to be Tigrean forces according to the narrative of the story.
Egypt Today has 46.7% site traffic in Egypt, 8.0% in India, and 7.2% in the United States according to Alexa. Alexa ranked it 54,939th in global internet engagement in a 90-day trend.
However, the image used to support the narrative is rated as False due to its inexact use of pictures.
The war in northern Ethiopia has killed thousands of civilians, plunged hundreds of thousands into famine, and forced more than a million people to flee their homes.
The report had thus been produced during such times the conflict has escalated.
A Tineye reverse image search of the picture of the report shows that the images are not related to the current situation in the northern part of Ethiopia. The image is taken from a video shared by the BBC on October 11, 2018. The video entitled “US Niger ambush: How raft of failures ended in death”, shows the death of four US special forces soldiers in a small corner of Niger known as Tongo Tongo.
