Situation Room
Africa Security Situation Room
A strategic overview of significant developments, emerging risks and key events affecting the African operating environment. Country-level risk indicators are assigned by INGO ADVISORY analysts and reviewed on a rolling basis — this is not a 24/7 staffed operations centre, and it does not provide live tracking or emergency response.
Record analytics — published analyst records
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Records published, last 14 days
Weekly Security Brief
Compiles the last 7 days of intelligence from all six collection layers, grouped by location, with severity, layer attribution and a numbered sources appendix — ready to share with your country teams. The brief is issued in English. Download the citations appendix as CSV — filtered to any country or region subset — to analyse or reuse the underlying source records in a spreadsheet.
Significant developments across Africa
Counters are derived from the incident records currently displayed and from analyst-assigned country indicators. Choose an indicator, a period and a country to drill down.
Interactive map of overall risk across Africa. Focus the map and use the arrow keys to move between countries, Home and End for the first and last country, Enter or Space to open the focused country profile, and Escape to leave the map. Press the question mark key, or use the keyboard controls button, to show or hide the full list of shortcuts. A text list of every country and its rating follows the map.
By overall risk
Click a country on the map for the full risk profile.
- Critical· Red Sea· 12m agoAnti-ship missile targets commercial tanker in Bab el-MandebBab el-Mandeb Strait, Red Sea corridor · UKMTO · INGO ADVISORY maritime desk
- High· Piracy· 47m agoAttempted boarding of bulk carrier off Eyl coast80nm east of Eyl, Somalia · EU NAVFOR · in-country network
- Critical· Terrorism· 2h agoVBIED detonates near government complex in MogadishuKM4 junction, Mogadishu, Somalia · INGO ADVISORY Horn of Africa desk
- High· Terrorism· 2h agoJNIM ambush on military convoy in Sahel triangleTillabéri region, Niger · OSINT · liaison networks
- Critical· Armed conflict· 3h agoFresh RSF–SAF clashes reported in El FasherEl Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan · INGO ADVISORY conflict cell
- High· Red Sea· 4h agoUSV sighted transiting southern Red SeaSouthern Red Sea approaches, Red Sea corridor · CTF 153 · UKMTO
- High· Cyber· 5h agoRansomware campaign targeting regional banking sectorMultiple, Kenya · INGO ADVISORY cyber threat intel
- Moderate· Civil unrest· 6h agoCost-of-living protests planned in Nairobi CBDNairobi CBD, Kenya · INGO ADVISORY East Africa desk
- High· Political· 7h agoGovernment reshuffle triggers uncertainty in BamakoBamako, Mali · Political risk desk
- Moderate· Piracy· 8h agoSuspicious approach — Gulf of Guinea120nm south of Lomé, Togo · MDAT-GoG
- High· Armed conflict· 9h agoM23 advances reported in North KivuRutshuru territory, DR Congo · MONUSCO · INGO ADVISORY field
- High· Terrorism· 10h agoISCAP raid on village in Cabo DelgadoMacomia district, Mozambique · INGO ADVISORY Southern Africa desk
- High· Elections· 11h agoContested presidential vote count enters second weekKinshasa, DR Congo · INGO ADVISORY political desk
- Moderate· Elections· 12h agoCampaign rally clashes ahead of general electionKaduna, Nigeria · OSINT
- Terrorism3
- Airport disruption3
- Natural disaster3
- Red Sea2
- Piracy2
- Armed conflict2
- Cyber2
- Critical4
- High14
- Moderate8
- Info0
What we are tracking right now
A rolling view of the 12 incident categories INGO ADVISORY monitors across Africa and the Red Sea operational theatre. Counts are calculated from the records currently displayed, and incidents may be assigned to more than one threat category.
Incident stream
Filter by country, threat type, date range and severity. Records are added as they are collected and reviewed; the verification status of each incident is shown on the item.
- Monitoring — no independently verified incident matches the current filters.