Risk events in Africa, August 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.
5444 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 4166 conflict events, 870 unrest events, and 2 advisory changes.
5444 eventsSources: gdelt
5444 events· Africa
ConflictUnrest
- Nigeria: 1801
- South Africa: 617
- Morocco: 373
- Kenya: 307
- Sudan: 273
- Earthquake
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 4,166
- 27 in the list
- Unrest
- 870
- 17 in the list
- Advisory
- 2
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
5444 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Niger
Severity 3 · Niger · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 4 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Lodja · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in George, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · George · Source: gdelt
- 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
- Conflict
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Casablanca, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Casablanca · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration 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.