{"id":174063,"date":"2024-06-07T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-video-doesnt-show-flooded-valley-in-kenya-its-from-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:44:08","slug":"kenya-no-video-doesnt-show-flooded-valley-in-kenya-its-from-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-video-doesnt-show-flooded-valley-in-kenya-its-from-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No, Video Doesn&#8217;t Show Flooded Valley in Kenya &#8211; It&#8217;s From Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>No, video doesn&#8217;t show flooded valley in Kenya &#8211; it&#8217;s from Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Kenya has been hit by heavy rains in 2024, resulting in flooding. But this video of a flooded valley was filmed in Saudi Arabia, not Kenya as claimed online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;Flooding in Kenya.&#8221; That&#8217;s the text overlaid on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1954177548373494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> circulating on social media in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kilimex\/video\/7364131291199049003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows <\/a>a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWiFPlEkCjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flood<\/a>, with a white vehicle being swept downstream in a valley. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSonko\/status\/1785710019645690093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">houses<\/a> and trees can also be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">One user claimed the footage was from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hXVNNs4FENU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mai&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, video doesn&#8217;t show flooded valley in Kenya &#8211; it&#8217;s from Saudi Arabia IN SHORT: Kenya has been hit by heavy rains in 2024, resulting in flooding. But this video of a flooded valley was filmed in Saudi Arabia, not Kenya as claimed online. &#8220;Flooding in Kenya.&#8221; That&#8217;s the text overlaid on a video circulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":174064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,10999,10597,23564,4688,430,257,9388,11004,254,14394,8066],"class_list":["post-174063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arabia","tag-doesnt","tag-flooded","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-saudi","tag-show","tag-south-africa-today","tag-valley","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}