Abidjan, Ivory Coast — One person was killed and several others injured in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan after a fake news video on social media provoked attacks on Niger nationals in the city.
A video showing a brutal 2019 raid by the Nigerian army on the Boko Haram jihadist group was passed off on social media Wednesday as an incident where Niger nationals had attacked Ivorians.
That sparked violence in Abidjan’s teeming working-class districts of Abobo, Yopougon, Anyama, Angre, and Adjame, where hundreds of people from neighboring West African countries also live.
“One person died and several were injured,” said Abidjan prosecutor Richard Adou in a statement Thursday nigh…
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