Risk events in Africa, April 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.
7407 events were recorded: 6418 conflict events and 989 unrest events.
7407 eventsSources: gdelt
7407 events· Africa
ConflictUnrest
- Nigeria: 2942
- South Africa: 798
- Mali: 404
- Kenya: 375
- Sudan: 345
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 6,418
- 16 in the list
- Unrest
- 989
- 34 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
7407 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Lodja · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Lodja · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 4 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bukavu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Midrand, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Midrand · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dondo, Mozambique
Severity 3 · Mozambique · Dondo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Benin City, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Benin City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ruhengeri, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Ruhengeri · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mali
Severity 3 · Mali · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Seychelles
Severity 3 · Seychelles · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.