Risk events in Africa, 2026

This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.

38431 events in 2026

38431 events

38431 events· Africa

World map of risk events49 countries with events, 0 events plottedTanzania · 158 · Events per country this yearW. Sahara · 1 · Events per country this yearDem. Rep. Congo · 664 · Events per country this yearSomalia · 1094 · Events per country this yearKenya · 2222 · Events per country this yearSudan · 2125 · Events per country this yearChad · 510 · Events per country this yearSouth Africa · 5461 · Events per country this yearLesotho · 105 · Events per country this yearZimbabwe · 741 · Events per country this yearBotswana · 118 · Events per country this yearNamibia · 231 · Events per country this yearSenegal · 99 · Events per country this yearMali · 1134 · Events per country this yearMauritania · 13 · Events per country this yearBenin · 180 · Events per country this yearNiger · 501 · Events per country this yearNigeria · 13607 · Events per country this yearCameroon · 398 · Events per country this yearTogo · 27 · Events per country this yearGhana · 1132 · Events per country this yearCôte d'Ivoire · 52 · Events per country this yearGuinea · 118 · Events per country this yearLiberia · 282 · Events per country this yearSierra Leone · 71 · Events per country this yearBurkina Faso · 330 · Events per country this yearCentral African Rep. · 93 · Events per country this yearCongo · 370 · Events per country this yearGabon · 22 · Events per country this yearEq. Guinea · 42 · Events per country this yearZambia · 160 · Events per country this yearMalawi · 351 · Events per country this yearMozambique · 338 · Events per country this yeareSwatini · 9 · Events per country this yearAngola · 85 · Events per country this yearBurundi · 68 · Events per country this yearMadagascar · 32 · Events per country this yearGambia · 14 · Events per country this yearTunisia · 122 · Events per country this yearAlgeria · 297 · Events per country this yearEritrea · 58 · Events per country this yearMorocco · 848 · Events per country this yearEgypt · 1091 · Events per country this yearLibya · 364 · Events per country this yearEthiopia · 828 · Events per country this yearDjibouti · 21 · Events per country this yearUganda · 1069 · Events per country this yearRwanda · 399 · Events per country this yearS. Sudan · 354 · Events per country this year
Events per country this yearfewermore
  • Nigeria: 13607
  • South Africa: 5461
  • Kenya: 2222
  • Sudan: 2125
  • Mali: 1134

Signal

How the picture is moving

Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days

Events by type

Against the 90-day baseline

Earthquake
90-day baseline: 4
1
Disaster
90-day baseline: 0
0
Conflict
90-day baseline: 65,765
32,042
Unrest
90-day baseline: 15,013.5
6,383
Advisory
90-day baseline: 20.4
5

Events per month

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Events per bucket and type (data behind the chart)
DateEarthquakeDisasterConflictUnrestAdvisoryFire hotspots
2026-01-0100439000
2026-02-0100375204552
2026-03-0100447000
2026-04-010064189890191375
2026-05-0100694713030325930
2026-06-0100651417250619289
2026-07-0100673614943929517
2026-08-0110416687021263326
2026-09-0100000130969
2026-10-01000000
2026-11-01000000
2026-12-01000000

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38431 events in 2026