The images are of Mount Edgecombe interchange in South Africa and Luanda, Angola, respectively.
This post on Facebook with photos supposedly of Kisumu city in Kenya is FALSE.
The post has two images depicting an aerial view of a modern road and beach-side street, accompanied by a text reading: “Kisumu City, Kenya.”
Kisumu city is located in the Western part of Kenya. It is the third largest city in the country after Nairobi and Mombasa.
Mtoto News conducted a Tineye reverse image search on the first photo and established that it is of Mount Edgecombe interchange in Durban, South Africa.
The photo was also published here.
We performed a Google reverse image search on the second picture and discovered that it is of a bicycle lane in Luanda Angola.
The photo was uploaded on iStock on 2 October 2018.
A similar photo was also published here.
Mtoto News examined a Facebook post with photos supposedly of Kisumu city in Kenya and found it to be FALSE.
This fact-check was published by Mtoto News with technical support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck newsdesk through the African Fact-Checking Alliance.
By Eric Namayi
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