Risk events in Africa, June 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.
8239 events were recorded: 6514 conflict events and 1725 unrest events.
8239 eventsSources: gdelt
8239 events· Africa
ConflictUnrest
- Nigeria: 2820
- South Africa: 1482
- Kenya: 542
- Sudan: 509
- Ghana: 239
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 6,514
- 46 in the list
- Unrest
- 1,725
- 4 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
8239 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Sudan
Severity 3 · South Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dondo, Mozambique
Severity 3 · Mozambique · Dondo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Algeria
Severity 3 · Algeria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bunia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- 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.