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Sub-Saharan Africa is entering a critical phase in the second half of 2025, with several high-profile elections that hold significant implications for the region’s political stability, governance, and security. This repo...

This OSAC report format provides a brief update on recent events in Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

OSAC is issuing a new product format: a regular update about topline private sector security concerns in West and Central Africa. This report highlights recent events in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, a...

This report looks at three potentially connected improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonated in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on the nights of June 20 and July 2. The unclaimed explosions injured several bystanders and...

Over the past 18 months, piracy incidents emanating from Nigeria have proliferated in frequency, tactical diversity, and geographic spread throughout the Gulf of Guinea. In particular, maritime kidnapping-for-ransom inci...

The CDC has issued a blanket Level 2 Travel Health Notice for Polio in parts of Africa and Asia. The notice urges enhanced safety precautions for travelers to 22 countries whose limited health systems, poor sanitation pr...

In 2018, the U.S. Department of State introduced the Travel Advisory system. Fifteen months after the system went into effect, the Department has unveiled its first significant modification: the addition of a new, separa...

Violence and security force crackdowns in Anglophone areas of Cameroon will likely escalate as Presidential elections (October 7) approach. As a result, October will be a high-stakes month for separatists, opposition par...

Elections in Africa often increase the possibility of civil unrest. Even in instances when the electoral process goes relatively smoothly, some disruption can occur that impacts private-sector operations. This report foc...

On the morning of September 22, an explosion occurred at a fuel depot near Mboppi market in Douala, Cameroon’s second largest city and commercial center. Authorities have identified the source of the explosion as an unso...

This report was produced as part of OSAC's Annual Briefing Series. The recent surge in violent crime in Nigeria’s hydrocarbon-rich Niger Delta region could soon affect the security of other areas bordering the Bight of B...

Boko Haram’s reemergence and subsequent resilience can be attributed in large part to the Lake Chad region’s illicit economy and proliferation of so-called “violence entrepreneurs.” Weak governance along the area’s inter...

Piracy and maritime crime in the Gulf of Guinea dropped by nearly a third from 2014 to 2015. The Nigerian government’s decision in January to extend for at least another year the amnesty program for Niger Delta militants...

The following is a white paper released in conjunction with OSAC's 30th Annual Briefing, held November 17-19, 2015. A notable security trend in West Africa in 2015 was the regional expansion of terrorism in the Lake Chad...

At least 21 people were killed on July 25 when a suicide bomber detonated near a popular bar in Maroua, the regional capital of Cameroon’s Far North Region. Three days earlier, two suicide bombers killed more than 20 peo...

On June 15, multiple suicide bombers on motorcycles conducted synchronized attacks on the Chadian police headquarters and training academy in N’Djamena. The attacks, the first of their kind in the capital, killed 33 peop...

On February 7, Nigeria and its four neighboring countries pledged to deploy a Multinational Joint Task Force as part of a regional effort to beat back Boko Haram militants. The agreement comes on the heels of Boko Haram’...

This interactive product is a compilation of information from previous OSAC reporting on Ebola and Department of State messaging by country.

Various incursions, including a high profile kidnapping, into northwest Cameroon by Nigeria's Boko Haram have raised concern of the group's interest and capabilities there.

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week's bulletin contains articles highlighting Zimbabwe's constitutional referendum, mafia car bombings in Tel Aviv, and piracy in the Gul...