The Facebook page "Investiguesi Shkrimor" published a video on August 2nd claiming that the video shows the Minister of Finance in Niger with tears in his eyes, claiming that the coup leaders have given him a 48-hour ultimatum to bring back the stolen goods or else he will be executed.
Fact checkers AFP, have found that this video is old (2021) and shows not the Minister of Finance, but the former Minister of Justice of Niger, Marou Amadou, tearfully thanking the country's former President, Issoufou Mahamadou. (here)
Link to the article published on Facebook by the "Writing Investigator" page:
AFP Fact Check found that this video has been shared online since December 2021 by a Facebook account called “L'oeil Nigerien”. (see here)
Another Facebook account of a Nigerian news agency Company MKL published a photo showing Amadou wearing the same clothes and scarf seen in the video dated December 28, 2021. (see here)
The Minister of Finance in Niger until the coup (July 26, 2023) was Ahmat Jidoud. (see here and here)
Analyze:
A Facebook social media account has published a video claiming to show Niger's finance minister crying after coup leaders gave him an ultimatum to account for stolen funds or face death.
However, after fact-checking by AFP, it was confirmed that the claim is false and that the video is old (2021) and features former Justice Minister Marou Amadou. This post from the aforementioned page is rated as “Fake News”.
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.