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.
5039 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 4166 conflict events, 870 unrest events, and 2 advisory changes.
5039 eventsSources: gdelt
5039 events· Africa
Unrest
- 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
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 870
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 2
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
5039 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Benin City, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Benin City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bulawayo City, Zimbabwe
Severity 3 · Zimbabwe · Bulawayo City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chilanga Township, Zambia
Severity 3 · Zambia · Chilanga Township · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Ad-Damazin, Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Ad-Damazin · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Evaton, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Evaton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in East London, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · East London · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Botswana
Severity 3 · Botswana · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chilanga Township, Zambia
Severity 3 · Zambia · Chilanga Township · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Dondo, Mozambique
Severity 3 · Mozambique · Dondo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
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.