🧵1/6 After the El Fasher massacre, I identified a large UAE-aligned influence operation on X promoting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Around 19,000 accounts showed strong indicators of automation - bots marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-found-19... #Sudan #Dysinfluence

This Sentinel-2 timelapse shows a route connecting Kufrah, Libya with Sudan. Vehicle tracks on this leg eastwards into Sudan – not visible in prior years – become visible following an increase of cargo flights at Kufrah airport. www.reuters.com/world/how-re...

🚨 Out now: our interactive website and dashboard with 384 airstrikes linked to the Sudanese Armed Forces in Sudan, including map with filters and timeline, case studies and munition analysis. With Sudan Witness @cen4infores.bsky.social Access it here: sudanairstrikes-info-res-hub.hub.arcgis.com

🚨 Out now: our interactive website and dashboard with 384 airstrikes linked to the Sudanese Armed Forces in Sudan, including map with filters and timeline, case studies and munition analysis. With Sudan Witness @cen4infores.bsky.social Access it here: sudanairstrikes-info-res-hub.hub.arcgis.com

Tomorrow, we will publish our Sudan airstrikes dashboard, showing patterns of hits on residential neighbourhoods, markets and vulnerable communities. BBC's piece on our work and SAF's bombing campaign is out already, with comments from me With Sudan Witness at @cen4infores.bsky.social

Natural resource exploitation in #Sudan continues to be fueling the conflict. A new report by @paxforpeace.nl shows how the trade in #gumarabic is financing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) through looting, taxation, and control of illicit trade routes. paxforpeace.nl/news/how-tra...

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner. www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

🚨Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague have just convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region.

This is als true for other NASA websites/platforms, such as NASA Worldview worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

A UN commission of inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & says "the duty to prevent genocide obligates States to take all necessary steps to try to avoid or stop the commission of genocide". Its full report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

GitHub recently restricted access to repos filed with OSINT/dark web/infosec links and resources. I spoke to multiple people that had their accounts blocked from public view without warning or explanation. Read GitHub's response and more @indicator.media: indicator.media/p/github-res...

I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world: railmapper.net

A must read - ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam as UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We traced an armoured vehicle used in a violent attack in Sudan, all the way back to a location in the middle of Libya's desert. There it was parked, at a location where we found hundreds of other vehicles parked in rows. Watch our investigation here: youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM #KeepEyesOnSudan

@ayinnetwork.bsky.social :طرحوا عليّ بعض الأسئلة حول تحقيقنا. اقرأ تقريرهم هنا 3ayin.com/rsf-and-libya/

Lees het maar eens, deze afsluitende alinea in @standaard.be over kinderen in Gaza. Lees het dan nog eens.

This investigation involves what may be the most extreme geolocation I've ever done.

Wat goed, @trouw.nl.

Important example showing how synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical satellite data are complementary. Here are pairs of images used by Reuters to document gravesites in Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp. www.reuters.com/investigates... Imagery from Umbra (SAR) & Airbus (optical).

New Google Earth imagery shows the devastating toll of a war that has been raging in the city of El Fasher (North Darfur) #Sudan for almost a year now. #KeepEyesOnSudan credit: Airbus/GE 1/3

For nearly two years, a shadowy paramilitary group – the Rapid Support Forces – has been terrorising Sudan. We spent months collecting evidence that identified commanders and revealed potential war crimes happening under their watch. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

The NYT front page could use some context right now: the "crowd attacking a person" in the video below are Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters, some of which donned masks and armed themselves with iron poles beforehand.

PlanetScope imagery from October 20 and 23 via Planet Labs shows two very large columns of black smoke over northern Gaza's Jabaliya neighborhood — both appear to be over UNRWA schools that were, until recently, being used as shelters for internally displaced people.

In 2-3 years time, open source investigators might have an alternative to NASA FIRMS, with higher temporal and spatial resolution called the Earth Fire Alliance arstechnica.com/space/2024/0...

Burned villages are frequently appearing in new satellite imagery since the start of conflict in Sudan last year. What's happening? Who is responsible? In last months, I've been working with CIR to create a short doc exploring those questions. You can now view it here: youtu.be/mTmPSHwNoHw?...

Already looking forward to the Darknet Diaries episode on today’s Crowdstrike update @jackrhysider.bsky.social

While making gains in other areas – the RSF continue their offensive on El Fasher (الفاشر), leading to more devastation in the city. Footage recorded last week shows RSF with burning property in the southern part of the city. 📍13.591227,25.356525

RSF celebrating against the backdrop of a burning neighbourhood in El Fasher (الفاشر), #Sudan, in the morning of 29 April. 13.617611,25.380079

Geolocation of footage showing the destruction of the market in Abathok, Abyei. The Abyei administration reported 18 civilians killed, and another 18 wounded. Insert courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel-2. 📍 9.483633,28.552820

Zurug, a town in N-Darfur #Sudan that was reportedly used as an arms trade hub by the RSF – was apparently hit by airstrikes on January the 16th. It also seems a residential compound was hit, as 3 videos posted the next day show a burnt compound and large crater 1/5 Credit: Planet

Geolocation of fires and smoke on the outskirts of Dilling (الدلنج), S-Kordofan, #Sudan, on 7 January. SPLM-N and SAF allegedly took control of the town that day, while clashes with RSF reportedly took place next day. The cause of the fires is unknown. 📍 12.0408,29.6764

Geolocation of RSF Deputy Commander Abdulrahim Daglo in El Geneina (الجنينة), in a video posted on 4 November, the same day videos and reports of violence in Ardamata (أردمتا) started circulating. 13.432715,22.420533 source: www.facebook.com/100095343580...

Sisi, a village in West Darfur along the main road between El Geneina and Murnei, was fully destroyed in several events in July-September. This happened after fire attacks in Murnei end June. 📍13.192972,22.738883 Image credit: CNES / Airbus

Honoured to work with the Centre for Information Resilience to investigate and map village fires in Darfur/#Sudan to expose human rights abuses. Today, CIR's Sudan Witness launched an interactive map providing a visual display with at least 68 villages that were damaged by fire since April. 1/x

Kubum, South Darfur, is the last in a series of attacks in this region. Fires were also detected in the town on August 8, but no damage was observed then. Multiple nearby towns and hamlets where subsequently targeted, with Kubum lastly this week. 1/4

The Kubum region, South Darfur, Sudan, continues to be the target of fire attacks. Yesterday, 18 Sept, Sentinel-2 satellites captured this image that shows fires throughout Kubum village itself.

New Google Earth imagery confirms that Tendelti / Echbara, a village at the Chadian border in West Darfur, sustained large-scale fire damage around May 17. 13.667336,22.133821