Sleeping mother in Tanzania misrepresented as conflict victim
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A viral image and video falsely claim to show a toddler trying to wake his dead mother, allegedly killed in Nigeria, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo or Sudan.
The woman is not dead. She was asleep, and both she and the child are members of Tanzania's Hadzabe, a small nomadic community.
The footage was traced to videos posted in July and August 2026 showing the pair. A later video shows the mother waking up, picking up her child and walking away.
AFP also contacted a Tanzanian tour guide who identified the footage as showing the Hadzabe community. He said the language spoken was Hadza and translated the mother's words as asking her child what was wrong before telling him to go home. The misleading posts appeared amid ongoing conflicts in Nigeria, eastern DRC and Sudan, falsely attaching the emotional footage to those crises.
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