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Footage of a crowd walking briskly along a dusty field was published in a tweet that claims the video captures residents of border communities in Nigeria’s northern Niger state who recently fled their homes after attacks by bandits. However, the claim is false. The clip was filmed in 2021 when gunmen stormed the northern village of Solhan in Burkina Faso, massacring civilians