Info or Intox: What is the story of this video of a fire at sea?

Published on : 06/11/2021 – 14:50

In this episode, Jesse attah, analyst for a security company in Nigeria, explains to the editorial staff of France 24 Observers how he proceeded to find the origin of this video and to have a track on the nature of this explosion which took place in Nigeria.

Through the voice of its spokesperson, the municipality of Mouanko in Cameroon, where Internet users claimed that the video had been taken, denied the information of an underwater volcanic eruption on social networks.

In Nigeria, no official statement has come to confirm the incident, nor the trail of an oil pipeline explosion. To learn more about the issue of petrol trafficking between Nigeria and Benin, you can consult This article from Reuters.