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FRI, MAY 15 · EDT
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Angolan civil war.

Cold · 0/100Civil Warresolved33 dispatches indexed
Escalation
0
·Stable · /100
Events · 24h
14
-2 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
15
no prior baseline
Media divergence
·Divergence
Angolan Government
Angola
Cuban & South African Forces
Cuba
Active support
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
1,475
total events across belligerents · 89 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
FAMILY OFCUBA HUMANITAR2026-02-142026-04-012026-05-15
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
15
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-1115
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 2Cuba Humanitarian CrisisCU
10.0Apr 21Family of seven kidnapped, executed and rapedZA
10.0Apr 20Historical slave trade in AngolaAO
10.0Apr 18Trans-Atlantic slave routeAO
10.0Apr 18Angolan Civil WarAO
9.0May 15Cuba Economic CrisisCU
9.0May 13Cuba Energy CrisisCU
9.0May 12Cuba Economic CrisisCU
9.0May 11Cuba Faces Humanitarian CrisisCU
9.0May 10Cuba economic crisisCU
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 7RUCURussian oilcritical tech transferdelivered
Apr 4AOINAngolan oilarms salecontracted
Mar 31RUCURussian Urals crude oilcritical tech transferdelivered
Mar 31RUCURussian Urals crude· qty 700000arms saledelivered
Mar 30RUCUoil tanker· qty 1arms saledelivered
Mar 30RUCUAnatoly Kolodkin· qty 1critical tech transferdelivered
Mar 30RUCUcrude oil· qty 730000arms saledelivered
Mar 30RUCUsanctioned Russian oil tanker· qty 1arms saledelivered
Mar 22RUCUdiésel rusocritical tech transfercancelled
Mar 20RUCUoilarms saledelivered
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Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
RodioSouth Africamining90.0%
Platinum Group Metals· South Africa and Zimbabwe Platinum ReservesSouth Africamining88.0%
Platinum Group MetalsSouth Africamining88.0%
Manganese· South Africa Manganese ReservesSouth Africamining60.0%
Manganese· Tshipi MineSouth Africamining60.0%
ManganeseSouth Africamining60.0%
Platinum· Bushveld Igneous ComplexSouth Africamining49.0%
Platinum· Merensky ReefSouth Africamining49.0%
Platinum· MogalakwenaSouth Africamining49.0%
Platinum· Phalaborwa rare earths mineSouth Africamining49.0%
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 AO as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.