An image shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) with a photo supposedly of Kenya’s Rongo Town is false.
The image shared on diverse dates on Facebook and X in September 2023 claimed that it was Rongo Town at night.
Rongo is a town in Migori County in Kenya.
Business Today fact-checked the image and found the claims to be false.
Google reverse image search results show the photo is of Ubungo Interchange in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as seen here and here.
A Google search for Ubongo interchange leads to the Tanzania National Roads Agency’s (TANROADS) website, where an image with similar features was published.
According to the Construction Review, the interchange was renamed by Tanzania’s late President John Pombe Magufuli to Kijazi Interchange, after former Chief Secretary the late John Kijazi.
The interchange is located in Ubungo District at the intersections of the Morogoro, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela roads.
“The lower section of the interchange is 5Km long whereas the middle section on Morogoro road is 260m long standing at 8.9m high. The top level on the Nelson Mandela and Sam Nunjoma Roads is 700m long standing at 16.3m high. All three levels of the roads have six lanes,” the Construction Review reported.
The project, done by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), was launched in March 2017 by Magufuli and the then World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
The posts claiming that the image is of Rongo Town are, therefore, false.
This fact check was published by Business Today with technical support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck newsdesk, through the African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA).
