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Central Africa conflict.

High · 58/100Civil Waractive394 dispatches indexedlatest event Oct 18, 2026
Escalation
58
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
1
▼-5 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
32
▲no prior baseline
Media divergence
—
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
DRC
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
259
total events across belligerents · 64 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
WAR CRIMEEBOLA OUTBREAK2026-07-212026-08-222026-10-18
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
99
single-side data only
2026-07-202026-10-1932
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 17M23 ResurgenceCD
9.0Oct 4Ebola outbreak in DRCCD
9.0Oct 1DRC conflict escalationCD
8.0Oct 18Kabila joins rebellionCD
8.0Oct 17Kabila AccusedCD
8.0Oct 17Ebola OutbreakCD
8.0Oct 17Kabila plans attackCD
8.0Oct 11Ebola SpreadsCD
8.0Oct 11Ebola outbreakCD
8.0Oct 11Rebel Attack in KonqodaCD
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Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Aug 22→CDEbola vaccine· qty 16000tech transferdelivered
Apr 16CD→UScopper· qty 500000critical tech transfercontracted
Apr 15CD→USCobalt productscritical tech transferproposed
Apr 15CD→USCobalt and Coppercritical tech transferproposed
Apr 14CD→UScopper and cobaltcritical tech transfercontracted
Apr 6CD→UStantalumcritical tech transferproposed
CD→CNlithiumcritical tech transferproposed
CD→USrare earth elementscritical tech transfercontracted
US→CDcopper and cobalt mining companyarms salecontracted
CD→UScobaltcritical tech transferproposed
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Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
Copper, Cobalt, LithiumDRCmining—80.0%
Platinum group metalsDRCmining—80.0%
CobaltDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Buenassa RefineryDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Butembo copper projectDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· ChemafDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Chemaf processing plantDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Chemaf’s minesDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Congo's mineral-rich eastDRCmining—75.0%
Cobalt· Congo strategic cobalt reserveDRCmining—75.0%
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.