Southern Africa security & risk intelligence

Countries in Southern Africa

• South Africa

  Violent-crime and kidnapping trends, service-delivery protest and extortion economies, mining and logistics disruption, and grid and water reliability.

  17 records · Moderate risk · 30 Aug 2026, 18:26
• Mozambique

  Cabo Delgado insurgency and LNG-project security, post-election unrest, cyclone landfall and flood displacement, and central-corridor logistics risk.

  8 records · High risk · 27 Aug 2026, 09:00
• Zambia

  Copperbelt mining-community tension, debt and cost-of-living pressure, drought and hydropower shortfalls, and Lobito and Dar corridor logistics.

  8 records · Low risk · 28 Aug 2026, 08:20
• Zimbabwe

  Political repression and election-cycle violence, currency and fuel instability, artisanal-mining criminality, and drought and cholera exposure.

  7 records · Moderate risk · 30 Aug 2026, 04:45
• Eswatini

  Pro-democracy unrest and security-force response, targeted political violence, cross-border criminality with South Africa, and constrained civic space.

  4 records · Moderate risk · 27 Aug 2026, 06:06
• Malawi

  Cost-of-living protest risk, cyclone and flood exposure, cholera outbreak history, and fuel and forex shortages affecting operations.

  3 records · Low risk · 27 Aug 2026, 09:00
• Botswana

  Stable governance with low political violence, diamond-dependency economic exposure, wildlife-crime enforcement, and drought and water stress.

  1 record · Low risk · 26 Aug 2026, 09:45
• Namibia

  Stable political environment, offshore oil and green-hydrogen project security, Walvis Bay corridor logistics, and drought and water-scarcity stress.

  1 record · Low risk · 24 Aug 2026, 22:15
• Lesotho

  Coalition-politics instability, armed criminal and initiation-related violence, highlands water-project security, and dependency on South African routes.

  Monitored · no published record yet