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Hausa-Edo clashes.

High · 70/100Civil Waractive972 dispatches indexedlatest event May 12, 2026
Escalation
70
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
11
-3 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
435
-140 vs prior 7d
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Nigeria
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
2,561
total events across belligerents · 91 daily data points
Annotated milestones
3 of 4
2015 ZARIAWAR CRIMEREFUGEE FLOW2026-02-112026-03-282026-05-12
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
56,354
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-1130,626
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
9.0May 8Displacement in NigeriaNG
9.0May 4Banking Sector CrisisNG
9.0May 4Nigeria GDP GrowthNG
9.0Apr 21Alleged Plot to Overthrow GovernmentNG
9.0Apr 21Killings of Military GeneralsNG
9.0Apr 20Insurgency in Northern NigeriaNG
9.0Apr 20Increase in street children in CalabarNG
9.0Apr 12Alleged Internal SabotageNG
9.0Apr 12Over 1,100 people kidnapped in NigeriaNG
8.0May 12Airstrike in ZamfaraNG
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Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 17CNNGAI-powered surveillance infrastructurecritical tech transferdelivered
Apr 4CNNGartilleryarms saledelivered
Apr 4CNNGtankarms saledelivered
Apr 4CNNGartilleryarms saledelivered
Apr 4CNNGartilleryarms saledelivered
Apr 4CNNGtankarms saledelivered
Apr 4CNNGtankarms saledelivered
Mar 27GBNGused electronicscritical tech transferdelivered
Mar 27DENGused electronicscritical tech transferdelivered
Mar 27IENGused electronicscritical tech transferdelivered
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Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
Lithium· FonloNigeriaprocessing0.0%
Lithium· GbugbuNigeriaprocessing0.0%
LithiumNigeriaprocessing0.0%
GemstonesNigeriamining
Lead-zincNigeriamining
Lithium· FonloNigeriamining
Lithium· GbugbuNigeriamining
LithiumNigeriamining
TantaliteNigeriamining
Top 9 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 NG as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.