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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🧵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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A few months ago, we published our short doc on a military camp that can be linked to the RSF, about 80km south of Kufrah airport. This camp was already active in January this year, and still is until this day.

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How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

With CIR's Sudan Witness, I mapped these tracks and identified truck-sized objects and smoke plumes along this route from Kufrah far into Sudan, such as this one captured by Planet on 5 November, coming from a convoy allegedly hit by an airstrike.

A smoke plume captured by Planet satellites on 5 November 2025

Geolocation of trucks on fire in the desert

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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...

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🚨 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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Of these 384 reported strikes, 168 were corroborated by collecting and verifying user-generated content and analysis of satellite imagery. Munitions remnants identified in multiple cases can be linked to the SAF. More than 1700 civilian deaths were reported as a result of these strikes

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

BBC already reported on our work yesterday, see below

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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

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Sudan war: Air force's bombing of towns, markets and schools has killed hundreds, report says

A detailed study highlights the military's aerial campaign and how civilians have been its victims.

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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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...

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨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.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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...

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Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved

A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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...

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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...

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Why is GitHub restricting accounts that share OSINT and dark web resources?

At least half a dozen repos or entire accounts were recently banned or blocked from public access

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Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · 02/09/2025

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

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Rail Mapper

Design and analyze high speed rail networks

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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...

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‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert

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Olaf Koens @olafkoens.nl · 02/08/2025

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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thank you, I did read that a long time ago, but thanks for sharing and reminding me! Very interesting.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Gevonden! Inderdaad Riga, Stabu Stiela 1. Zelfs jaren geleden bevestigd door @olafkoens.bsky.social zelf 🙂. Muur heeft inmiddels een likje verf gehad.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Remnants from the same model were also circulated last Saturday after an alleged drone strike on a prison in El Obeid

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

For the record, but it appears these are not GB50/GB7A, but newer GB50/GB7B. You can see the difference in how the tail fins are mounted to the bomb. Also see www.info-res.org/reports/alle... (disclaimer: I'm part of Sudan Witness)

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

And to stick with the metaphor: an electric whisk is not gonna be very helpful at places where there’s no electricity. I mean there will be large differences with areas that are underrepresented or have less data density

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Al bekend met @tortoisemedia.bsky.social? Veel goede series in Tortoise investigates bijvoorbeeld: Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed, Pig Iron

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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).

Four images showing fresh graves in cemeteries near the Zamzam refugee camp. The left column is two synthetic aperture radar images, which look like grainy black and white photos. On the right are two very high resolution true-color satellite images. Some graves are visible in both synthetic aperture radar and true-color imagery, others are more easily identified in one or the other. The two types combined help provide a more accurate picture of the total number of graves.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Nyala (South Darfur) has mainly smaller scale damage from munition impacts, but there's also a neighbourhood near the army base that was destroyed after RSF took over late 2023. credit: Airbus/GE 3/3

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

El Fasher is tragically not the only city to have witnessed widespread destruction. El Geneina (West Darfur) might even have more extensive damage, where IDP camps were burnt down and neighbourhoods razed to the ground in 2023. credit: Airbus/GE 2/3

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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/...

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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan

Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Het Reuters filmpje stond zelfs - out of context - op de voorpagina van de NYT, zie hier, incl. gelijksoortige rectificatie bsky.app/profile/foek...

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

NYT now just deleted the video and added a footnote bsky.app/profile/marc...

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Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Ah! Discovery of oil and gas reserves in the area by the third party🧐

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Increasing tensions between UK/Argentina after the establishment of new no-fishing zones?

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

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.

satellite imagery showing Gaza's Jabaliya neighborhood and a column of black smoke on October 20

satellite imagery showing Gaza's Jabaliya neighborhood and a column of black smoke on October 23

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

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...

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Google backs privately funded satellite constellation for wildfire detection

"Authorities will have high-resolution imagery that is updated globally every 20 minutes."

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Also shoutout to @cruickshank.bsky.social whose work is of immense help to make it easier to collect and verify these burned villages

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

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?...

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Meet the men burning down Sudan

YouTube video by CIR - Centre for Information Resilience

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

source:https://t.me/c/1587386048/4057

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

The dwellings marked B in the figure above were already burnt earlier this month. Sentinel-2 imagery below shows additional fire damage in this area, after the block on the right was destroyed 31 May/1 Jun.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

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

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

A full block of dwellings went up in flames that morning, after fires already destroyed other parts of this neighbourhood in the last couple of weeks.

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