{"id":5384,"date":"2026-08-06T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:54:02","slug":"misleading-video-showing-senegalese-soldiers-providing-security-for-adama-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Misleading: Video showing Senegalese soldiers providing security for Adama, misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Adama Barrow with the Senegalese ECOMIG contingent. Source: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Claim<\/strong>: A Facebook user shared a video<\/a> claiming that Senegalese soldiers are providing security for the Gambian president instead of the Gambian military.

Verdict<\/strong>: Misleading. DUBAWA found that the shared video was originally shot when President Adama Barrow bid farewell to the Senegalese Economic Community of West African States\u2019 Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG), or contingent, following the completion of their duty in March 2026 at the State House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong>

On July 21, 2026, Sulayman Cham, a Facebook user with 30,000 followers, posted a video<\/a> of President Adama Barrow at State House, surrounded by Senegalese soldiers, who were singing.

The post caption read, \u201cGambia now everything is left to us if we want this to continue in our country or not. Let\u2019s come together and vote him out, and also sovereignty is at stake here.\u201d

Seeing the caption was unclear, a user, Alieu Jammeh<\/a>, asked, \u201cCan someone explain to me what is going on here?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claimant, Sulayman Cham<\/a>, then responded, saying, \u201cSenegalese giving security to our President while our own gallant military are ignored.\u201d

As of July 30, 2026, the video (archived here<\/a>) had 387 likes and 146 comments. While some Facebook users questioned its validity, the majority believed the claim to be true.

Reacting to the post, a user, Muhammed Jammeh<\/a>, wrote, \u201cYes, nothing but the truth you’re saying, my brother.\u201d

Another user, Kassim Camara<\/a>, wrote, \u201cSenegalese soldiers should leave because we trusted them to protect us, but now we are seeing them entering Gambian territory.\u201d

However, Yusupha Jammeh<\/a> doubted and asked, \u201cIs this an AI or real? If I may ask?\u201d

Due to ongoing conversations about Senegalese soldiers and The Gambia, especially the recent territorial claim in Bullock, DUBAWA decided to verify the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong>

We separated the video into keyframes and conducted a Google reverse image search. We found that the video first appeared<\/a> in March 2026. The post revealed this was when the president bid farewell to the Senegalese Economic Community of West African States\u2019 Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG) contingent. GRTS news<\/a> also reported this development.

The contingent consists of soldiers and gendarmerie who are providing services as part of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mission<\/a> in The Gambia, following The Gambia’s 2016 elections and fears of political unrest.

The video was recorded several months ago and was later reposted by the claimant to promote a new narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong>

Our findings show that the video was originally shot in March 2026, when President Adama bid farewell to the Senegalese Economic Community of West African States\u2019 Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG) contingent upon the completion of their duty. The claim is misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Yankuba Corr <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report was produced under the 2026 Kwame Karikari Fact-checking and OSINT Fellowship, co-hosted by DUBAWA and the Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Disorder Analysis Centre (DAIDAC), with support from the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: A Facebook user shared a video claiming that Senegalese soldiers are providing security for the Gambian president instead of the Gambian military. Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA found that the shared video was originally shot when President Adama Barrow bid farewell to the Senegalese Economic Community of West African States\u2019 Mission in The Gambia (ECOMIG), or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fact-checks"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infochecked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}