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
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
Events
What is happening now
8233 events · newest first
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Military force used in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Namibia
Severity 3 · Namibia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · 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 Libya
Severity 3 · Libya · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mansurah, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Al Mansurah · Source: gdelt
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.