Claim: A Facebook video shows soldiers calming tension after Senegalese authorities forcefully grabbed Gambian lands on Aug. 4, 2026.
Verdict: Misleading! The video is over a year old and does not depict any recent land dispute between The Gambia and Senegal.
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UDP TV & Media, a Facebook page, shared a clip on Aug. 4, 2026, claiming that Senegalese authorities are seizing more Gambian land.
The video shows a Senegalese soldier speaking to a crowd of men in a local language (Wolof) 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 and traced the footage to a Facebook post dated August 4, 2025, exactly a year before the recent repost.
The original post had a different caption, praising Captain Malick Boye, a Senegalese soldier, for preventing what it described as a potential bloodbath between the border villages of Jataly in The Gambia and Kanouma in Senegal.
The footage shows him telling residents of both villages to remain calm, and the original caption credited him with restoring peace between the two communities.
The dispute was between the two border communities, Kanouma in Senegal and Jattaly in The Gambia, originating from a misunderstanding between a Senegalese forestry officer and a Gambian woodcutter in a zone with unclear boundaries.
Zoom Africa TV also posted the video in 2025. We also found the video on another Facebook page here.
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.