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DR Congo-Rwanda conflict.

Critical · 100/100Civil Waractive19,498 dispatches indexedlatest event Aug 27, 2026
Escalation
100
·Critical · /100
Events · 24h
1
-6 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
13
no prior baseline
Media divergence
·Divergence
Rwanda & Uganda (M23 and allied forces)
Rwanda
DRC & Regional Allies
DRC
Active support
Other principal actors
AngolaBurundiQatar
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
1,219
total events across belligerents · 89 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
WAR BETWEENEBOLA OUTBREAK2026-05-312026-07-142026-08-27
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
237
single-side data only
2026-06-012026-08-24160
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week13 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
9.0Aug 23Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 22Ebola outbreak DRCCD
9.0Aug 18DR Congo Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 18Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 18Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 17Ebola outbreak in DRCCD
9.0Aug 6Middle East WarQA
9.0Aug 6DRC Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 6Ebola OutbreakCD
9.0Aug 6DRC Accuses Rwanda of GenocideCD
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Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Aug 22CDEbola vaccine· qty 16000tech transferdelivered
May 3USQAPAC-3 MSE interceptors· qty 300arms salecontracted
Apr 23UAQAdronedefense pactcontracted
Apr 16CDUScopper· qty 500000critical tech transfercontracted
Apr 15CDUSCobalt and Coppercritical tech transferproposed
Apr 15CDUSCobalt productscritical tech transferproposed
Apr 14CDUScopper and cobaltcritical tech transfercontracted
Apr 6CDUStantalumcritical tech transferproposed
Apr 4AOINAngolan oilarms salecontracted
Apr 3UAQAdrone know-howtech transfercontracted
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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%
CobaltDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Buenassa RefineryDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Butembo copper projectDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· ChemafDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Chemaf processing plantDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Chemaf’s minesDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Congo's mineral-rich eastDRCmining70.0%
Cobalt· Congo strategic cobalt reserveDRCmining70.0%
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.