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Great Lakes conflict.

High · 56/100Civil Waractive394 dispatches indexedlatest event Jun 27, 2026
Escalation
56
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
3
·-1 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
162
no prior baseline
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
DRC
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
690
total events across belligerents · 87 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
REFUGEE FLOWEBOLA OUTBREAK2026-03-312026-05-162026-06-28
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
705
single-side data only
2026-03-302026-06-29233
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
No daily brief has been generated for this conflict yet. Briefs are produced for the highest-activity conflicts first; this one becomes eligible as coverage volume climbs.
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
SeverityDateEventCountries
9.0Jun 28IDP CrisisCD
9.0Jun 27Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Jun 25Ebola outbreakCD
9.0Jun 24Ebola outbreak in DRCCD
9.0Jun 24Ebola outbreak in DR CongoCD
9.0Jun 24Ebola outbreak in DRCCD
9.0Jun 17Ebola EmergencyCD
9.0Jun 9Public Health EmergencyCD
9.0Jun 8Public Health EmergencyCD
9.0Jun 7International Public Health EmergencyCD
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Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 16CDUScopper· qty 500000critical tech transfercontracted
Apr 15CDUSCobalt productscritical tech transferproposed
Apr 15CDUSCobalt and Coppercritical tech transferproposed
Apr 14CDUScopper and cobaltcritical tech transfercontracted
Apr 6CDUStantalumcritical tech transferproposed
CDCNlithiumcritical tech transferproposed
CDUSrare earth elementscritical tech transfercontracted
USCDcopper and cobalt mining companyarms salecontracted
CDUScobaltcritical tech transferproposed
USCDcopper-cobalt minearms salecontracted
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Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
Copper, Cobalt, LithiumDRCmining80.0%
Platinum group metalsDRCmining80.0%
CobaltDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· Butembo copper projectDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· ChemafDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· Chemaf’s minesDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· Congo's mineral-rich eastDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· Congo strategic cobalt reserveDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· CopperbeltDRCmining74.0%
Cobalt· DRCDRCmining74.0%
Top 10 shown · global share % = country’s share of worldwide production at this stageFull dataset via API · contact
No dispatches indexed for this conflict in the last 30 days.
Methodology

This brief was drafted daily by Claude Opus/Haiku under an ICD 203 analytic-tradecraft prompt: bottom line up-front, calibrated probability language (“likely,” “highly likely”), explicit confidence levels, and alternative-analysis sections. Drawn from 0 dispatches across 0 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.

Event volume and casualty counts key off CD as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.