Mark Snoeck

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.
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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.

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

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🚨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

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

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.

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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...

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

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...

Rail Mapper Design and analyze high speed rail networks

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

‘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...

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...

YouTube video by CIR - Centre for Information Resilience How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert

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

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

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

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

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

Wat goed, @trouw.nl.

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

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)

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

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

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.

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).

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

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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

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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

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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 ...

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/...

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

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NYT now just deleted the video and added a footnote
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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.

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

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