Sierra Leone is battling an epidemic of drug abuse by its youth. Recent social media posts claimed that a photo of people digging graves showed addicts removing human bones to grind into a synthetic drug called “kush”. But the claim is false: AFP Fact Check found that the photo showed graves being dug for the victims of a mudslide in the West African country in 2017.

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