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The Democratic Republic of Congo through an open-source lens. congoeye.com

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 16/12/2025

You can see the reflection of this building in the glass behind Ngoma:

A screenshot from the video of Ngoma, with the glass behind him reflecting the pattern of the building across the street.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

The new mayor's office where Ngoma was filmed is very close to the old. Facing the street, the new building has the covered porch visible on Google Maps. Additionally, the window reflection in the video show the distinctive pattern of the building across the street.

A screenshot of Google Maps with an arrow to the new mayor's office, as well as the incorrectly marked one on Google, and the previously shown university building as a preview image.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

Using the writing on the wall, we were able to locate that building at maps.app.goo.gl/KX3hvXrK3awZ...

A screenshot from Google Maps zoomed in on concrete buildings that have a sign painted on them, which says "Universite Notre Dame De Tanganyika".

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

At 1:43 in the video, the camera pans over the protestors in front of the mayor's residence (which matches the building Ngoma is pictured in front of) and shows more of the street. On the left side of the frame, a distinctive building can be seen:

A screenshot from Africa News's video of a protest in Uvira from several months ago. It shows a crowd of people and buildings on both sides of the street.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

If you just looked up the mayor's office on Google Maps, you would assume he was here:

A screenshot of Google Maps that shows the location marked as the Uvira mayor's office.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

We used Google Earth to match the profile of the mountain and the awning of the building marked in green.

A screenshot of Google Earth with the road above shown as well as the mountain ridgeline.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

In the M23 video, bodies are visible from the building marked with red (to the northeast). The person filming turns away from the N5 and begins to walk down the unnamed crossroad, facing the mountains to the west, best visible at 0:45. CongoEye has covered the people who are deceased.

People walking down an unpaved road towards a line of mountains carrying their belongings. The mountain line is marked in blue and a distinctive awning is marked in green.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

The N5 and building highlighted in red are also shown in the Wazalendo video at 0:48.

A screenshot of a man who is narrating the video, with the N5 and building across the street marked in blue and red.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

As the M23 video pans, it shows the N5 and the building directly in front of the red structure at 0:20. Congo Eye has covered the people who are deceased.

The N5 road with a blue line showing the raised asphalt and a red line showing the distinctive structure of another building across the street.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

In the M23 video at 0:18 the same buildings are shown. Congo Eye has covered the people who are deceased.

A screenshot of the same buildings with blue over the deceased people and a yellow box around the building used for geolocation.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

This building has been repainted since the picture was taken, as seen in this video at 0:20 attributed to the Wazalendo of South Kivu. We will call this the Wazalendo video. x.com/AlvineOffici...

A screenshot from the Wazelendo video showing the same buildings as in the Mapillary screenshot.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

The pictured building is located on an unnamed road that crosses the N5, in the middle of Sange, not far from the Stade de Sange and Sange Marche.

A screenshot from Mapillary of a building to the left of the N5 highway, with its features marked up by Congo Eye.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

The person filming was in the pharmacy or the hardware store, and the videos were traveling southeast on the road. Of course, we cannot see where the convoy was before or after the video, but we note this street is suitable for large vehicles traveling from the Kamembe Airport to NR11.

Google Maps images of the DRC/Rwanda border, showing the vehicle's location on the map as well as the proximity to the Pont Rusizi border crossing.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 14/12/2025

CongoEye is evaluating many images and videos from M23's offensive push to Uvira. We have completed the following verifications and due to dis/misinformation, are publishing them now. This is the first of three threads.

A street with a motorbike in the foreground and a heavy army-green truck entering the left frame.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 02/12/2025

However, our research shows this video is not current; we could track it to December 2024 in a video from a Twitter/X account:

A Twitter post showing the same video as in the previous post, but dated December 22, 2024, and states it was taken in Butembo, Lubero.

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Congo Eye @congoeye.com · 02/12/2025

AFC-M23 is reported to be advancing towards Mwenga. CongoEye is examining images and in that process, found a video that some Twitter/X users are attributing to Mwenga:

A post from Twitter with nearly 1800 views which states that the attached video is from Mwenga on November 29, 2025.

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