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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...

UPDATE: OSAC is reissuing this report originally issued in March in the midst of a new outbreak of Lassa Fever, a potentially fatal acute viral illness. On January 22, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declar...

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...

Togo will host the 2017 African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Conference in Lomé from August 8 -11. This event will bring together senior government officials from the United States and 38 Sub-Saharan African countri...

The so-called ‘meningitis belt’ of sub-Saharan Africa (see image), which includes over 400 million people in 26 countries, tends to see periodic waves of meningitis outbreaks, most often during the dry season (December-J...

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...

OSAC constituents are encouraged to monitor developments related to the April 25 presidential election in Togo. While large-scale political violence is rare, political demonstrations are relatively common during Togolese...

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

The largest outbreak of Ebola ever reported has been sweeping through West Africa, causing over 720 deaths and at least 1,000 more infections.