No, the Ugandans were not celebrating Ruto’s victory in Kenya’s presidential election.

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Celebrations in Uganda following Ruto’s victory in Kenya’s presidential election

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is Misleading.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a video posted on Talent from Sebei Nation’s YouTube channel on August 12, 2022, when Ugandans were celebrating the medals won by their athletes during the Commonwealth Games.

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Celebration of medals in Sebei, Uganda

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No, the Ugandans were not celebrating Ruto’s victory in Kenya’s presidential election.

The video was shot on August 12, 2022, in Sebei Region, Uganda’s Eastern Region, following the success of Ugandan marathoners at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

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