Risk events in Africa, July 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.
8233 events were recorded: 6736 conflict events, 1494 unrest events, and 3 advisory changes.
8233 eventsSources: gdelt · ucdp
8233 events· Africa
Conflict
- Nigeria: 2735
- South Africa: 1412
- Kenya: 477
- Sudan: 470
- Egypt: 261
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 6,736
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 1,494
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 3
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | 0 | 0 | 285 | 113 | 0 | 30017 |
| 2026-07-02 | 0 | 0 | 309 | 109 | 0 | 26652 |
| 2026-07-03 | 0 | 0 | 244 | 67 | 0 | 37543 |
| 2026-07-04 | 0 | 0 | 231 | 33 | 0 | 38269 |
| 2026-07-05 | 0 | 0 | 167 | 44 | 0 | 29499 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 241 | 62 | 1 | 43320 |
| 2026-07-07 | 0 | 0 | 257 | 73 | 0 | 35357 |
| 2026-07-08 | 0 | 0 | 239 | 54 | 0 | 28990 |
| 2026-07-09 | 0 | 0 | 222 | 47 | 0 | 23436 |
| 2026-07-10 | 0 | 0 | 208 | 39 | 0 | 30423 |
| 2026-07-11 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-12 | 0 | 0 | 135 | 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 271 | 60 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 0 | 0 | 220 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-15 | 0 | 0 | 212 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-16 | 0 | 0 | 252 | 46 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-17 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 39 | 0 | 52905 |
| 2026-07-18 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 22 | 0 | 47483 |
| 2026-07-19 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 19 | 0 | 38406 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 189 | 47 | 0 | 40219 |
| 2026-07-21 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 47 | 0 | 41411 |
| 2026-07-22 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 43 | 0 | 40291 |
| 2026-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 207 | 43 | 0 | 38190 |
| 2026-07-24 | 0 | 0 | 216 | 67 | 0 | 47625 |
| 2026-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 40 | 0 | 41056 |
| 2026-07-26 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 34 | 0 | 34857 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 256 | 26 | 1 | 38344 |
| 2026-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 279 | 53 | 0 | 32086 |
| 2026-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 207 | 38 | 0 | 35758 |
| 2026-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 251 | 33 | 0 | 31898 |
| 2026-07-31 | 0 | 0 | 327 | 55 | 0 | 45482 |
Events
What is happening now
8233 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
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State-based conflict in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Ouagadougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2 fatalities · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Beni · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Niger
19 fatalities · Niger · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dogondoutchi, Niger
21 fatalities · Niger · Dogondoutchi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Casablanca, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Casablanca · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 4 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mbombela, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Mbombela · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Casablanca, Morocco
Severity 4 · Morocco · Casablanca · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Casablanca, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Casablanca · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kimberley, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Kimberley · Source: gdelt
- 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.