Munition remnants from a strike that killed 17 people in Tiné, Chad, on Wednesday, appear to match a model previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war with Sudanese government forces – despite RSF denials of involvement in the incident.
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A Bellingcat investigation reveals child soldiers in Sudan’s civil war have become viral figures on TikTok. Videos attracting millions of views show the children with senior military officials, celebrating battlefield victories and delivering violent threats. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
Annotated satellite imagery to confirm Bellingcat's geolocation of the video
Bellingcat has geolocated the site of a mass killing in north-east Syria. The Ayn Al Arab (Kobani) area is affected by recent fighting between Damascus-aligned forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
On December 8, 2025 a video allegedly from the city of Sange started circulating on X. Lawrence Kanyuka of M23 alleged it showed the result of a firefight between FARDC and Wazalendo. We will refer to this as the M23 video. Note that this video is graphic. x.com/LawrenceKany...
Welcome to CongoEye’s first open-source monitoring summary, a report on interesting finds on social media about the Democratic Republic of Congo. These are items which may be too small to be covered in international or Congolese media, but can be verified or enhanced with open-source reporting.
In this month's Bellingchat Premium we spoke to the three Bellingcat Discord Members from @congoeye.com who've been monitoring the escalating conflict in DR Congo. Listen now: www.patreon.com/posts/tracki...
We’re honored to collaborate with Bellingcat for another article‒this time about the recent assault on Goma.
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Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream www.politico.eu/article/elon...
Some great work here from @groene.nl (in Dutch) on the far right and AI
‘Disappointed by the lack of real migrant violence, PVV members use AI to manufacture their own ‘hordes.’ The research shows: those inflammatory images come from Geert Wilders' faction itself’
paging @koltai.bsky.social
At what point will tech companies take responsibility for the harms of AI?
This latest lawsuit followed the widely covered case of the 14-year-old who committed suicide after being encouraged to do so by a Character.AI chat bot.
I'd be willing to bet there are even more cases than these here
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CongoEye is proud to have our first article published by Bellingcat. With Bellingcat, we examined photos and videos taken during Moise Katumbi’s march in Kindu, Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 28 of 2023.
The latest piece on Bellingcat from our Discord community members @jonnyghizmo.bsky.social and @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social - Retracing the Congolese March Where Dido Kakisingi was Killed www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/12...
On the 20/11/2024 the city of Tadmor is been hit by several airstrikes. Here is an article i wrote. #osint #syria
This 1xBet stream (left top/bottom) shows the same features seen in “3HL / Belgorod Hockey League” Telegram channel (right top/bottom).
Riccardo Giannardi and Thomas Bordeaux, found matching imagery on the Belgorod Hockey League Telegram channel to some of the four-a-side ice hockey streams. One post included the address of the venue.
It's always nice to help out and challenge myself with interesting geolocation tasks.
Hey! My Bluesky profile is pretty empty, so I decided to share something I wrote a while ago.
Hope you like it if you haven’t read it already! #osint