`PARTLY FALSE: These images are not of Egyptian troops arriving in Somalia in 2024

The images were not taken in Somalia.

 

This post on X  formerly Twitter) with images purportedly claiming to show that Egyptian troops arriving in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu in August 2024 is PARTLY FALSE.

 

The text accompanying the images states, A convoy of 10,000 Egyptian🇪🇬🇸🇴 troops has arrived in Mogadishu. This is to implement the military agreement between Somalia and Egypt. This is a mouthpiece for the PM’s dream of the sea.  Not to live peacefully with her neighbors.”

Egypt delivered military aid to Somalia on August 28, 2024, following the signing of a defense agreement between the two countries on August 14, 2024. The Egyptian government is also among the African nations offering support for the new AU peacekeeping force set to start in Somalia next year.

A reverse image search of the first photo using Google and TinEye established that it is unrelated to Somalia. The image was captured in 2021 during the Egyptian-Sudanese joint air force exercise dubbed “Nile Eagles 2,” as seen here and here. 

 

The image appeared in several articles published in 2021, here and here.

 

The FedAPA Images shared the imageeration of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) also conducted a TinEye search on the second photo, which established that the image was captured in the Sinai Peninsula in 2014.

 

The image was shared by APA Images with the caption “Military vehicles and soldiers of Egyptian armed forces are seen as Egypt reinforces its 2 and 3. Armies in the Sinai Peninsula on October 27, 2014.”

 

The Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) has looked into a post on (X formerly twitter) with images purportedly claiming to show that Egyptian troops arriving in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu in August 2024  and found it to be PARTLY FALSE.

 

This fact-check was produced by Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) under the African Fact-Checking Incubator programme, with support from PesaCheck, Code for Africa’s fact-checking initiative, and the African Fact-Checking Alliance(AFCA).