SATIRE: This image shows neither Taye Dendea nor Muferiat Kamil

The image is created by digitally manipulating and combining Taye Dendea’s and Muferiat Kamil’s images.

The Facebook image claiming to show Taye Dendea, a state minister for Peace, is ALTERED.

“Did the Minister of Peace, Tayeche, eat her dinner?” the post in the Amharic language asks. The post has changed the name of Taye to “Tayeche”, the feminine form of the name Taye. Also, it is referring to him as a woman and added the prefix Mrs.

However, a Google reverse image search reveals that the image does not show Taye. The image is created by digitally manipulating images of Taye and Muferiat Kamil.

One of the original images that was used to create the doctored image shows Muferiat, who currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Skills (MoLS) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and is a former Minister of Peace.

The second original photo is a portrait of Taye which is reversed in the final image.

Thus, the image under investigation, which was shared along with the Facebook post on 3 November 2021, is doctored and has been created by digitally combining these two images.

PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook image claiming to show Taye Dendea, Ethiopian State Minister for Peace, and finds it to be SATIRICAL.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake news or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Fact-Checkers and edited by PesaCheck chief copy editor Rose Lukalo. The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Enock Nyariki.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.