FALSE: This photo doesn’t show diplomats hurriedly leaving Kenya in July 2023

This photo shared on Facebook claiming to show diplomats hurriedly leaving Kenya on 17 July 2023 is FALSE.

Evans Isohe

The image shows a group of people boarding a Kenya Airways plane. It was accompanied by text that reads, “Happening now at JKIA. Diplomats leaving Kenya in such a hurry & in short notice.”

Mtaani Radio performed a Google reverse image search and established that the photo is not from July 2023.

The photo was published in a 2014 article by Mkenya Ujerumani. The article focused on getting visas at the German embassy in Nairobi.

The Luxury Travel Expert also published a similar photo in November 2019.

This fact-check was published by Mtaani Radio with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact-Checking Alliance.