Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. A picture of a runway with two aircraft parked in a clearing has been shared thousands of times on Facebook alongside claims that it shows a hidden landing strip in northern Nigeria used to import weapons. This is false: the image from 2005 features the Wageni airstrip in Beni, a city in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A Facebook post with the photo has been shared almost 500 times since it was posted on April 10, 2021. “In the middle of forest in all northern Nigeria, has a runway, where airplanes from foreign countries arrive with weapons