Interference, disinformation, and commissioned press articles: confidential documents reveal how #Russia infiltrated African media outlets and disseminated hundreds of propaganda articles through their pages, sometimes without even being aware of the operation. This week on #REPORTERS, a special report by #FRANCE24's The Observers traces the origins of covert operations traced back to Dakar, #Senegal ➡️ go.france24.com/J8eT

⚠️: Graphic images. 🇮🇷 Videos verified by France 24's @Observers team showed dozens of bodies accumulating at a morgue in Kahrizak, with families searching to identify their loved ones and groups saying they were victims of the Iranian authorities' crackdown on protests.

🔴🇮🇷 There were massive protests across Iran on the night of January 8-9. Amateur images from the capital Tehran and around the country showed cities’ biggest streets packed with people chanting anti-regime slogans such as “Freedom! Freedom!” The France 24 @Observers team verified images from Tehran and more than 10 other cities around the country. In many cities the anger was directed at symbols of the Islamic Republic’s authority.

🔴 Green barrels on the ground, a yellow cloud in the sky, and workers being treated with oxygen... France 24's #Observers team reveals for the first time the use of chemical weapons in the #Sudanese civil war 👇

Barrels containing chlorine gas were used as a chemical weapon in #Sudan 🇸🇩. In this second part of the @Observers's investigation, we trace how the barrels were imported into the country by Ports Engineering Company, a Sudanese company with links to the army ⤵️

European weapons in Sudan (3/5): The mercenaries who travelled through Libya ➡️ go.france24.com/6fS

European weapons in Sudan (4/5): 'The RSF bombs public buildings, markets, and hospitals' ➡️ go.france24.com/mNv

European weapons in Sudan (5/5): How Europeans are still making deals with an Emirati firm diverting weapons ➡️ go.france24.com/i6H

European weapons in Sudan (1/5): Bulgarian mortar shells in Darfur’s desert ➡️ go.france24.com/cOm

European weapons in Sudan (2/5): A €50 million Emirati contract ➡️ go.france24.com/cO9

🔍 From a #Bulgarian factory to Sudanese militias — @Observers trace how EU-made ammo ended up in Sudan, despite an arms embargo. 🇦🇪 Part 2 of this investigation focuses on Emirati firm International Golden Group. 🖋️ by @QuentinPeschard @GadevaElitsa go.france24.com/28P

🪖 Recent months have seen a spike in disinformation about #NATO and #Ukraine's allies on social media. That comes after French President #Macron’s comments about sending Western ground troops to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 @catalina_mda tells you more in this edition of #TruthOrFake ⤵️

🇮🇱 At least 150 hostages were taken back to #Gaza by Hamas on October 7. The FRANCE 24 @Observers spoke to Annalee Milstein who has 10 family members unaccounted for. 💬 Despite everything, Milstein remains hopeful. "We're optimistic that they are not dead," she says.

🔴🇮🇱 "We hear bombardments all the time," #Israeli civilians in #Ashdod and #Ashkelon told the FRANCE 24 @Observers. #Hamas attacked the southern city of Ashkelon on Tuesday, after the militant group warned residents to leave.

🔴 #Israel on Monday cut off electricity, food, fuel and water from the #Gaza Strip. The humanitarian situation in #Gaza has deteriorated drastically, but the 2.3 million #Palestinians there have nowhere to flee to. Witnesses spoke to @observers 👇