Trump used images from Congo to criticize the "genocide" against white people in South Africa.

BarcelonaThe day after The meeting between the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and South Africa, Cyril RamaphosaAt the White House, several media outlets have published reports that question or directly refute some of the statements made by the American leader denouncing an alleged "genocide" against the white minority in the African country. The American received his South African counterpart in the Oval Office a week later. to grant asylum to 49 white South Africans, and accused him on camera while showing him videos and published articles that supposedly supported his claim.

This Thursday, however, Reuters reported that Trump used images taken by the British agency in the Democratic Republic of Congo, claiming that they were evidence of mass killings in South Africa. "It's all white farmers being buried," Trump said, showing an article accompanied by a photo that was a screenshot of a Reuters video. The agency explained that its own fact-checking team verified that it was a video recorded on February 3 that shows aid workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma, during the battles between the government and the M23 guerrillas.

"In plain sight, President Trump used my image, used what I filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country black people are murdering white people," lamented the journalist who filmed the video, Djaffar al-Ka.

A fake cemetery

Furthermore, the BBC has verified another incorrect report. In the video Trump showed Ramaphosa, a scene showed thousands of white crosses along a road. The US president said it was a "graveyard" with more than 3,000 murdered Afrikaners. However, the British broadcaster spoke to residents of this area, in the villages of Newcastle and Normandein, who confirmed that thousands of people were not buried, but that the crosses had been placed to draw attention to the murders of white farmers.

"The crosses were symbolic of what was happening in the country," explained Roland Collyer, a farmer from the Afrikaner community. His uncle and aunt were bludgeoned to death in their home five years ago, sparking a community outcry. "There were crosses planted on both sides of the road, representing people who had been murdered on the farms," he said. "It's not a cemetery," adds neighbor Rob Hoatson, who says Trump is prone to "exaggeration." "It was a temporary memorial," he concludes.