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Great Lakes conflict.

High · 60/100Civil Waractive148 dispatches indexedlatest event May 10, 2026
Escalation
60
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
5
·-1 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
543
+273 vs prior 7d
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
DRC
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
237
total events across belligerents · 57 daily data points
Annotated milestones
1 of 4
REFUGEE FLOW2026-02-132026-04-142026-05-13
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
2,677
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-111,587
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
10.0May 3Displacement in Eastern CongoCD
9.0May 13DRC DisplacementCD
9.0May 11Displacement Crisis in DR CongoCD
9.0May 5Rebel Attacks in DRCCD
9.0May 3Escalation in Eastern CongoCD
9.0Apr 22War in Eastern CongoCD
9.0Apr 21Conflict in the DRCCD
9.0Apr 16Conflict-related sexual violence in eastern DRCCD
9.0Apr 16Human Rights Abuses in DRC MiningCD
9.0Apr 16Attacks on Human Rights DefendersCD
Top 10 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
Top 10
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
USCDmining investment fundcritical tech transferproposed
USCDsecurity support and infrastructure investmentdefense pactcontracted
USCDsemiconductorcritical tech transferproposed
USCDsemiconductorcritical 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%
Lithium· CominiereDRCmining80.0%
Lithium· Congo's mineral-rich eastDRCmining80.0%
Lithium· DRCDRCmining80.0%
Lithium· ManonoDRCmining80.0%
Lithium· Zijin's Congo lithium mineDRCmining80.0%
LithiumDRCmining80.0%
CobaltDRCmining76.0%
Cobalt· Butembo copper projectDRCmining76.0%
Cobalt· ChemafDRCmining76.0%
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.