The Video of an Alleged Lion Escape in Sudan Is Misleading

Misbar investigated the circulating video and found the claim to be misleading.

A thorough reverse image search revealed the video to be outdated and unrelated to Sudan.

The Video of the Lion Was Shot in Libya Two Years Ago

Contrary to the claims, the video features a lion walking in Libyan, not Sudanese, streets.

Mtunis News’s Facebook page published the same video on February 24, 2021.

According to the video’s caption, the footage was shot in the streets of Libya.

The Libyan Authorities Captured the Lion

A Libyan citizen in the Benina area of the city of Benghazi monitored a predatory lion wandering around a neighborhood without any supervision.

It seems in the viral video that the time when the video was shot was in the morning when there were no civilians in the street.

After that, the competent authorities were able to professionally arrest the escaped lion without anyone being harmed.

Violent Clashes Continue in Sudan's Capital

The army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in ferocious confrontations that have rocked the capital city of Sudan, Khartoum, as well as its neighboring cities, Omdurman and Bahri.

According to Ahmed Al-Mandhari of the World Health Organization, there have been close to 330 fatalities and close to 3,200 injuries in Khartoum, the western part of Darfur, and other states as a result of the conflict. 

A fresh effort for a truce in Khartoum was unsuccessful. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, the leader of the RSF, stated in a phone interview with Al Jazeera that his group is requesting a humanitarian ceasefire but "the other side does not want to."

“We are not talking about sitting down with a criminal,” the RSF commander said. “We have been negotiating [with army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan] for two years without any results.”

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