Paul Van Damme and Fortuna Vargas Mejía met 28 years ago in Puerto Villarroel, a village in the Bolivian department of Cochabamba. Van Damme was a Belgian marine biologist who found in the lagoons of the Bolivian Amazon “the closest thing to a sea.” Vargas was a native of Cochabamba who had worked as a […]
Heavy rains caused parts of Lagos state in southwest Nigeria to flood on July 8, 2022. To illustrate the devastating effects of these rains, several social media accounts and blogs shared a photo showing poultry drowned by flooding. However, AFP Fact Check found that the picture was not from Lagos, but an old photo taken in Bolivia.