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Niger coup attempt.

High · 55/100Conflictactive31 dispatches indexedlatest event Aug 29, 2026
Escalation
55
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
1
·+1 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
30
no prior baseline
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Niger
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · Niger as anchor
104
total events · 90 daily data points
Annotated milestones
1 of 10
BATTLE2026-06-012026-07-162026-08-29
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
293
single-side data only
2026-06-012026-08-24170
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
8.0Aug 29Mutiny Attempt
5.0Aug 22Niger Solar Plant
8.0Aug 17MPLJ rebels attack Niger
5.0Aug 17Niger-Canada Oil Refinery
6.0Aug 16Lithium Fuels Insurgency
8.0Aug 16MPLJ Attacks Niger Army
4.0Aug 14China-Niger Engagement
6.0Aug 14Niger-EU/US Tension
5.0Aug 14Niger-Russia Alliance
5.0Aug 14Niger-US Relations
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
No strategic transfers indexed for the belligerents in this conflict.
Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
LithiumNigermining
Uranium· DasaNigermining
Uranium· DasaNigerprocessing
Uranium· NigerNigermining
Uranium· NigerNigerprocessing
UraniumNigermining
UraniumNigerprocessing
Top 7 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 NE as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.