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South African authorities have intensified the search for a missing six-year-old girl, with a unit of the navy joining the operation. The secretariat of the East African Community (EAC) regional bloc has dismissed a post on X, formerly Twitter, which claimed that the bloc's member countries have launched a common regional currency.
It follows after pieces of clothing allegedly stained with blood The post had been shared on Sunday by a fake X account named "Government of East Africa".
were found in Saldanha Bay near Cape Town over the weekend. The account said that the currency was called the East African Sheafra, a combination of the shilling of East Africa and Franc.
Joslin The account also shared an image of a fake banknote of the purported single currency.
Smith disappeared from outside her home in an informal settlement in Saldanha on 19 February. The post has received over half a million views and was shared by some leading media outlets and online personalities in the region.
On Sunday, the South African Police Service The EAC secretariat dismissed the report of a unified regional currency late on Sunday, saying that the creation of a single East African currency "is still a work in progress".
said that an identified area in Diazville in the locality had been subdivided "Kindly ignore any rumours circulating in social media on the unveiling of new banknotes for the region."
into zones to co-ordinate the search. In 2013, EAC member countries set a target for a single currency by 2024.
It said that a mounted police unit and more The bloc missed the target and pushed the delivery time for the single regional currency to 2031.
specialised dogs had been brought in to scour the identified area.
The items found over the weekend have been sent to
a forensic laboratory for analysis.
The police have appealed to the public “to
refrain from spreading false information on social media and recording the searches" as this may affect the investigation.
“The primary focus of the coordinated efforts
should be to find Joslin or what happened to her,” it said.
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