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Angolan civil war.

Cold · 0/100Civil Warresolved35 dispatches indexed
Escalation
0
·Stable · /100
Events · 24h
1
▼-14 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
0
·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
956
total events across belligerents · 81 daily data points
Annotated milestones
4 of 4
CUBA'S HUMANITCUBAN MISSILECUBA HUMANITARUS-CUBA TENSIO2026-07-222026-08-312026-10-21
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
0
single-side data only
2026-07-202026-10-191
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
9.0Oct 10US-Cuba TensionsCU
8.0Oct 17Cuba energy crisisCU
8.0Oct 17Dollar Surpasses 800 PesosCU
8.0Oct 17Cuban Prisons RepressionCU
8.0Oct 17Dollar Surpasses 800 PesosCU
8.0Oct 11Cuban Political PrisonerCU
8.0Oct 11Economic crisisCU
8.0Oct 11Cuban Political PrisonerCU
8.0Oct 10Anti-immigrant violenceZA
8.0Oct 10Cuba Economic CrisisCU
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Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 7RU→CURussian oilcritical tech transferdelivered
Apr 4AO→INAngolan oilarms salecontracted
Mar 31RU→CURussian Urals crude oilcritical tech transferdelivered
Mar 31RU→CURussian Urals crude· qty 700000arms saledelivered
Mar 30RU→CUoil tanker· qty 1arms saledelivered
Mar 30RU→CUAnatoly Kolodkin· qty 1critical tech transferdelivered
Mar 30RU→CUcrude oil· qty 730000arms saledelivered
Mar 30RU→CUsanctioned Russian oil tanker· qty 1arms saledelivered
Mar 22RU→CUdiésel rusocritical tech transfercancelled
Mar 20RU→CUoilarms saledelivered
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Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
RodioSouth Africamining—90.0%
Platinum Group Metals· Mimosa mineSouth Africamining—88.0%
Platinum Group Metals· South Africa and Zimbabwe Platinum ReservesSouth Africamining—88.0%
Platinum Group MetalsSouth Africamining—88.0%
Platinum-group metal (PGM)South Africamining—83.0%
Platinum· Bushveld Igneous ComplexSouth Africamining—70.0%
Platinum· Merensky ReefSouth Africamining—70.0%
Platinum· MogalakwenaSouth Africamining—70.0%
Platinum· Phalaborwa rare earths mineSouth Africamining—70.0%
Platinum· Platreef MineSouth Africamining—70.0%
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.