Intelligence, Advisory and Operations — one engagement ladder
Our differentiator is not simply "Africa". It is intelligence, operational security and Horn of Africa expertise in one practice. Clients enter wherever they are today — free headlines, a country subscription, a single assessment — and move up the ladder as the exposure grows. Commercial terms are quoted against scope, not published.
Everything we sell sits inside one of three engines
Intelligence
Continuous Africa intelligence, monitoring and early warning.
Open-source, attributed and confidence-graded. Free headlines for everyone; country and sector depth, alerting and analyst access for subscribers.
- Free Africa brief
- Country & sector subscriptions
- Real-time alerting
- Analyst Q&A
Advisory
Strategic security and operational risk support.
Retained analytical support for organisations operating in Africa, plus fixed-fee due diligence and market-entry work for investors and corporates.
- Security intelligence retainer
- Strategic risk retainer
- Market-entry assessments
- Third-party due diligence
Crisis & Resilience
Crisis management, continuity and incident capability.
Prepare for, respond to and recover from incidents and disruption — plans, escalation, continuity and exercises tested before they are needed.
- Crisis management plans
- Business continuity
- Incident management
- Crisis exercises
Due diligence and training sit underneath these engines as specialist services.
From free headlines to retained advisory
The free intelligence product is the acquisition engine, not the business. Each layer below is a real product with its own deliverables — and a deliberate path into the next.
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Free Intelligence
Africa Security Intelligence Brief
Open access. Daily and weekly Africa security headlines with links to original sources.
- Africa security & risk headlines
- Major incidents and conflict updates
- Country risk developments
- Political and security developments
- Maritime alerts
- Terrorism and criminality developments
- Attributed links to original sources
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Intelligence Subscription
Country & sector briefing subscriptions
Depth on the geographies and sectors you operate in — Horn of Africa maritime, Nigeria energy, Sahel access, and comparable scopes.
- Daily or weekly intelligence brief
- Country-specific monitoring
- Sector watchlists (maritime, energy, mining, humanitarian access)
- Early-warning indicators
- Full source attribution and confidence grading
- Email alerting
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Professional Intelligence
Premium monitoring + analyst access
Real-time alerting and a named analyst for compliance, security and travel teams who need defensible, attributed sourcing.
- Real-time alerts against your thresholds
- Bespoke country and asset monitoring
- Executive briefings
- Analyst Q&A
- Priority escalation
- Monthly intelligence call
- Custom watchlists
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Advisory Retainer
Continuous monitoring + escalation support
The core of the practice. A named analyst holding continuous watch over your people, sites and operations across Africa.
- Continuous monitoring of your footprint
- Daily / weekly intelligence to your teams
- Incident escalation and 24/7 reachback
- Country risk and threat assessments
- Travel-risk and journey-management support
- Monthly intelligence briefing to leadership
- Named analyst contact
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Projects
Due diligence & market-entry assessments
Fixed-fee, decision-grade work for investors and corporates entering or expanding in African markets.
- Market-entry risk assessment (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan)
- Political, security and regulatory environment
- Conflict exposure and criminality
- Third-party due diligence — partners, contractors, suppliers, agents, JV and acquisition targets
- Stakeholder mapping
- Scenario analysis and recommendations
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Enterprise
Crisis management & resilience programmes
Hold a crisis-management and business-continuity capability whether or not a crisis happens, tested by exercise rather than written and shelved.
- Crisis management plans and escalation procedures
- Business continuity planning, aligned to ISO 22301 principles
- Emergency response frameworks and crisis communications
- Incident management procedures and call trees
- Tabletop and scenario exercises
- Recovery planning and post-incident review
- Crisis-management retainer and exercising
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Training
Workshops & capability building
Operational security experience packaged as one-day and multi-day workshops, in-person or remote.
- Africa security awareness
- Travel risk management
- Hostile environment awareness
- Security management for NGOs
- Intelligence analysis for security teams
- Crisis management and incident response
Day rate — on requestRequest a workshop
Somalia & the Horn of Africa
Most Africa risk firms cover Somalia from outside the country. Our reference point is inside it — Garowe and Mogadishu — with the relationships that come with sustained presence.
Who it is built for
- NGOs and INGOs requiring Somalia-specific duty-of-care assurance
- Government contractors and donors
- Investors and operators entering Somali markets
- Mogadishu and Puntland security environment
- Al-Shabaab activity and intent
- Political developments and clan dynamics
- Terrorism and organised criminality
- Maritime security and Red Sea disruption
- Kidnap-for-ransom exposure
- Civil unrest and infrastructure/project risk
- NGO / INGO duty-of-care sign-off
The flywheel
Training and free intelligence create demand; subscriptions create the analyst relationship; the analyst relationship creates projects and retainers.
Free intelligence ↓ Paid intelligence subscription ↓ Analyst relationship ↓ Bespoke intelligence ↓ Due diligence / market-entry project ↓ Monthly advisory retainer ↓ Crisis management & field verification engagement
Not sure which layer fits?
Tell us where you operate and what decision you are trying to make. We will propose the lightest engagement that answers it.