By Ngombet Claudia
This is an altered image with the information digitally manipulated and out of context, alleging that President Paul Biya has ordered Zambo Anguissa and Song to style their hair properly.
Altered decree
This image circulating on social media in Cameroon, precisely on WhatsApp in the early hours of Sunday 21 January 2024, with title ‘DECRET N° 2024/ 014 DU 18 JAN 2024 portant nomination de deux membres du Coneil Constitutionel’ in its Article 1 claims that the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya has ordered Zambo Anguisa of the Cameroon National Football team, and Coach Rigobert Song Bahanag to style their hair properly, ‘Article 1er – Sont, à compter de la date de signature du présent décret, imposé à se coiffer convenablement les membres de l’équipe nationale dont les noms suivent:
ZAMBO ANGUISSA
RIGOBERT SONG BAHANAG ‘
The title of the Decree and the main Article 1 do not match. They are saying two different things. While the title talks of the appointment of two member
s of the Constitutional Council, Article 1 rather imposes an order on Zambo Anguissa and Rigobert Song Bahanag to style or cut hair properly.
This is an altered text from the Presidential Decree N° 2024/014 of 18 Jan 2024 appointing two members of the Constitutional Council, as shared on the X account of President Paul Biya, on 18 January 2024.
Original decree
We used Google Lens to conduct a reverse image search of the image under review and discovered similar images. However, upon consulting the content of these images, we came across this particular image (https://twitter.com/PR_Paul_BIYA/status/1748043265625006177?t=mOetF59WCoz3T6EVvdPSKgands=19) on the official X (former Twitter) account of President Paul Biya, which is quite similar to the one under verification.
Comparing the two images, we noticed a discrepancy at the level of Article 1 of both images.
Article 1 of the original image shared on the official X account of President Paul Biya reads ‘Article 1er – Sont, à compter de la date de signatu
re du présent décret, nommés membres du Conseil Constitutionnel, pour un mandat de six (06) ans éventuellement renouvelable :
M. MINKO SHE Adolphe.
M. LOGMO MBELEK Aaron.’
This information is different in line two of the first image. There is inconsistency in the font type, size, ink, and spacing of the information in this section of the Decree. Also, the title of the Decree and its Article 1 do not coin.
After further review, we noticed that other than the differences in Article 1 of the fact-checked image, every other information looks the same as in the authentic image posted by President Paul Biya.
This fake information circulated immediately after the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon were beaten by Senegal 3-1 on day two of the 2023 African Cup of Nations. Our findings suggest that those who have been fed up with the performances of the two as player ( Anguissa) and Coach ( Song) did the editing to either make fun of or ridicule them.
Source: Cameroon News Agency
Addis Ababa: Over 50 winning works of Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest will be exhibited for the first time in Ethiopia at the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Addis Ababa this weekend, according to Sputnik News Agency.
The exhibition, which includes reportage shots and series, sports and ethnographic sketches, urban landscapes and portraits by young photojournalists from Russia, China, India, Bangladesh, Spain, Iran, France, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bahrain and other countries, will be open to the public from January 27th to February 10th 2023.
Sputnik reported that the center in Addis Ababa buzzed with excitement at the opening ceremony of the exhibition featuring the winners of the prestigious Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest.
The photo contest showcase is the first visit of the contest to Ethiopia in its history.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Ambassador Evgeny Terekhin said visitors will enjoy the masterpieces of modern photography being held in memory of the Russian journalis
t Andrei Stenin.
“I’m sure that visitors will enjoy the masterpieces of modern photography here. We hope that next year we will see Ethiopian works not only among the participants but among the winners of this renowned competition,” he added.
International Cooperation Directorate Department Head, Kristina Lyakh said that photojournalists from the countries of the African continent are among the most active participants of the competition.
The works in the exhibition were reportedly exhibited in the capitals of South Africa, Argentina and Serbia.
The contest is an annual competition organized by Rossiya Segodnya (of which Sputnik is a part) in memory of its photojournalist Andrei Stenin, who was killed on duty in Donbass in 2014.
Now hundreds of correspondents around the world, “under the name” of Andrei Stenin, are telling the truth as part of a photo contest, Russian House in Addis Ababa Head Alexander Evstigneev stated.
“Honestly, unbiased – about war, about peace, about despair, about hope. And in ea
ch frame there is an answer to the question: ‘What is all this for?’ The answer that Andrei formulated and adhered to until the last day of his life: ‘So that they know’,” he noted.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency