• Claim: A Facebook video claims to show Senegalese forces seizing Gambian territory

• Verdict: Misleading!

UDP TV & Media, a Facebook page – not official page, it is believed to be run by some UDP member –  shared a clip on Aug. 4, 2026, claiming that Senegalese authorities are seizing more Gambian land. 

The video shows a Senegalese soldier speaking in Wolof to a crowd of men in a forest area.

The post (archived here) was captioned “Breaking news – Senegalese has taken more Gambian land this morning. Gambia wake up.” 

As of Aug. 17, 2026, it gathered over 2,300 likes, 297 comments and 172 shares.

Several Facebook users reacting to the claim have expressed concern over Senegalese encroachment into Gambian territory.

Yankuba Darboe, who believed the claim to be true, wrote, “I think The Gambia should start seizing land in Senegal to even the score.”

Another user, Ndour Sonko, said, “The ties between Gambia and Senegal are strong and secular. Only a diplomatic way can solve this problem.”

However, Ebrima Cessay stated, “This event happened last year, not this morning. Let us kindly give true information to the people  that the country is having border issues.”

Given the recent incident in which Senegalese security forces and gendarmerie ordered Gambian farmers to halt agricultural activities in some border communities over territorial claims, DUBAWA thought it important to verify this narrative.

Verification

We conducted a reverse image search. The footage could be traced to a Facebook post dated August 4, 2025, about a year before the recent repost. It captured a dispute between the two border communities, Kanouma in Senegal and Jattaly in The Gambia.  

For example, Zoom Africa TV also posted the video in 2025. We also found the video on another Facebook page here. 

In the original post, one Captain Malick Boye, believed to be a Senegalese soldier, was being praised for his intervention to prevent a violent clash between Kanouma and Jattaly. 

The footage shows him telling residents of both villages to remain calm. 

Conclusion

The footage is a year old and originally documented a Senegalese soldier being praised for restoring peace at the Jataly-Kanouma border, not a land seizure by Senegal. The claim is therefore misleading.

This report was produced under the 2026 Kwame Karikari Fact-checking and OSINT Fellowship, co-hosted by DUBAWA and the Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Disorder Analysis Centre (DAIDAC), with support from the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).