By Naomi Wanjiku
A photo posted on Twitter claims to show the Isiolo-Moyale-Hawassa Road in Kenya. The text accompanying the photo states, “The construction of the Moyale Hawassa (Ethiopian side) is well in progress”.
Verification
Whereas the claim about the Isiolo-Moyale-Hawassa Road construction is true, the photo used in the claim is misleading, and this is why. A reverse image search of the photo shows a highway in Egypt and not Kenya as claimed.
The photo was taken on October 18, 2017, by Amr Abdallah Dalsh for Reuters, and its caption reads: “Vehicles drive on the new highway, outside Egypt’s new administrative capital, around 45 km (30 miles) north of the current capital Cairo, Egypt October 18, 2017”.
Egypt began building a new administrative capital in 2015, 45km east of Cairo on the way to the port city of Suez. Once complete, the new capital is expected to accommodate approximately five million people and ease congestion in Cairo.
The China State Construction Engineering Corporation is expected to build a new parliamentary complex, 12 ministerial buildings, the president’s office, a convention centre, and an exhibition area at a cost of about $45 billion.
On July 19, 2018, the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project posted photos of the Moyale-Hawassa Highway, and they were different from the photo we are fact-checking.
Verdict
PesaCheck has looked into a photo posted on Twitter claiming to show the Isiolo-Moyale-Hawassa Road and finds it to be FALSE.
This story was produced by Africa Uncensored in partnership with Code for Africa with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie.
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