ECOWAS Widens Its Border Mission to the Mano River Basin:...
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The incidents and the ECOWAS response On March 12, 2026, the ECOWAS Comm...
South Africa’s Anti-Migrant Protests Turn Social Tension Into Business Continuity...
South Africa’s anti-migrant protests on June 30 pushed several cities into partial shutdown. Workers...
Ghana 0-0 England at the World Cup: What the Black...
Ghana held England to a goalless draw in Group L at Boston Stadium on June 23. England finished with 78.8%...
HRW, M23, and the Washington Accords: What the Documentation of Systematic Abuses Means for the...
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks On June 10, 2026, Human Rights Watch published a 78-page report titled “Death Was Everywhere”:...
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DRC Referendum Bill Intensifies Constitutional Standoff: What Tshisekedi’s Political Manoeuvre Signals for Stability and Mining Investment Risk
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks On June 9, 2026, the DRC’s National Assembly passed a bill organising the legal framework for national referendums. The vote took place without opposition lawmakers, who have boycotted parliament for weeks in protest against the initiative. The legislation is the procedural instrument through which any constitutional revision would be submitted […]
Two Tracks, No Ceasefire: Where the DRC-M23 Peace Process Stands
HRW, M23, and the Washington Accords: What the Documentation of Systematic Abuses Means for the DRC Peace Architecture On June 10, 2026, Human Rights Watch published a 78-page report titled “Death Was Everywhere”: Arbitrary Detention, Killings, and Forced Recruitment by the M23 and the Rwanda Defence Force. The report documents a campaign of forced recruitment […]
Togo Savanes Food Crisis: ANC Alert as the Sahel Hunger Belt Inches South
On June 9, the Alliance Nationale pour le Changement (ANC), Togo’s main opposition party led by Jean-Pierre Fabre, published a communique calling on the government to take urgent measures to prevent a large-scale humanitarian crisis in the Savanes region. The alert is not the ANC’s own assessment. It relays a WFP warning, published in late […]
DRC: Ebola, M23 and the Compounding Crises Closing In on Kinshasa
On May 15, 2026, the DRC and Uganda simultaneously declared an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. Two days later, WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. On May 18, Africa CDC elevated it to a continental security emergency. The outbreak is concentrated in Ituri Province, one of the most conflict-affected […]
DRC Ebola Reshapes World Cup 2026. US Travel Bans Strand Supporters as Leopards Prepare Under Sanitary Protocol
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks On May 29, 2026, FIFA and the Congolese football federation FECOFA confirmed that the DRC’s World Cup delegation is fully compliant with US health protocols related to the Ebola outbreak, clearing the Leopards to compete in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The team opens against Portugal in Houston on June […]
Somalia’s Referee Banned from the US World Cup: What the Travel Ban Applied to African Officials Reveals About the Continent’s Exposure to American Immigration Policy
FIFA confirmed on Monday June 9 that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States. FIFA stated it is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that […]
World Cup 2026 Is the Diaspora World Cup: What 289 Players Competing for Countries Where They Were Not Born Signals for West Africa’s Talent and Identity Politics
ASINT / Geopolitics and Risks There are 310 players at the 2026 World Cup who were born outside...
US Critical Minerals Diplomacy in the Sahel: Why the Security-for-Resources Model Hits a Wall After the USAID Dismantlement
Geopolitics & Risks The Sahel is emerging as a strategic node for critical minerals extraction. Mali is projected...
Ebola PHEIC and African Investment: How a Bundibugyo Outbreak Spreading to Uganda Tests Continental Health Infrastructure and DFI Priorities
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks On May 16, 2026, the WHO Director-General declared the Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease...
Africa’s Multipolar Moment. How Strategic Autonomy Replaces Binary Cold War Alignments
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks In September 2025, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola published an articulation of...
Alliance of Sahel States Currency Breakaway. Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Prepare Franc Replacement and What Monetary Sovereignty Means for Franc Zone Stability
ASINT / Geopolitics & Institutions On May 23, 2025, at a ministerial meeting in Bamako, the Alliance of...
Africa Forward Nairobi: What the Risk Pricing Debate Actually Produced
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The Summit and Its Mandate The Africa Forward Summit was held in Nairobi...
Conakry Port as Russia’s Sahel Logistics Hub: What The Sentry Investigation Changes for Guinea’s Strategic Position
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks On 21 April 2026, the investigative organisation The Sentry published its report “Doubling...
Gulf of Guinea 2026: Maritime Piracy at Historic Lows, Proxy Conflicts at Their Highest
ASINT / Geopolitics & Risks The Gulf of Guinea presents an apparent paradox in 2026: reported piracy is...
