Miguel Magalhães Ramalho

Sep 27, 2024 | bellingcat.com | Ella Chakarian |Miguel Magalhães Ramalho |Logan Williams

In the regional capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, satellite imagery reveals hundreds of incidents of what appears to be ransacking across the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert to Armenians. The vast majority of debris piles can be seen directly adjacent to empty residential tower blocks and civilian homes. The city has remained vacant since the mass evacuation of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population in September 2023.

Mar 6, 2024 | bellingcat.com | Miguel Magalhães Ramalho

Bellingcat has also published a repository of open source notebooks which you can find on our GitHub hereThe number of open source tools out there is growing rapidly, but technical bars to entry mean they remain inaccessible to many researchers. GitHub, a platform where developers share and discuss their code, is home to many of these tools. Searching the website for open source investigation tools can appear daunting to the uninitiated — there are more than six thousand results.

Dec 13, 2023 | bellingcat.com | Miguel Magalhães Ramalho

On December 3, Venezuela held a controversial referendum over a claim to the oil-rich Essequibo region controlled by Guyana. That same day, the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, showing a group of Indigenous people lowering a Guyanese flag and hoisting a Venezuelan flag in its stead over the territory, which is also known as Guayana Esequiba. ‘Glory to the brave people!’ she wrote, which is the first line of the country’s national anthem.

Nov 29, 2023 | bellingcat.com | Miguel Magalhães Ramalho

Earlier this month, Bellingcat hosted its fourth hackathon, our first to take place in-person. We’re excited to share the projects our participants brought to life over three days of intense hacking at the University of Amsterdam. Unlike our previous hackathons, which followed narrower criteria, we encouraged participants to work on any kind of project within the scope of open source research. We saw teams design guides, build tools, dive into investigations, and even red team existing tools.

Feb 3, 2023 | bellingcat.com | Miguel Magalhães Ramalho

On 24 November 2022 DW Africa published an interview with Isabel dos Santos – once Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of former Angolan President José dos Santos. She wore a distinctive pink blouse and sat in front of a nondescript, semi-transparent curtain. Towards the end of the interview dos Santos was asked “Where are you currently at?” to which she replied, after a brief hesitation, “I’m at home”. She repeated this answer to all further queries about her location.