Image shows road destroyed by underground explosion in South Africa, not Kenya

Online posts in Kenya have shared an image of a badly damaged road claiming it is a thoroughfare running through Nairobi’s city centre. This is false: AFP Fact Check found the road is actually located in South Africa and was destroyed in a gas explosion in central Johannesburg in July 2023.

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