BJ
BeninAfrica / Western Africa
Capital
Porto-Novo
Population
12.1M
GDP (USD)
N/A
Head of State
N/A
Key Drivers
No key drivers identified.
Recent Intelligence 12
- HIGHSEV 78
Uganda: Stabbing Attack Kills Four Children at Kampala Kindergarten as Security and Leadership Moves Follow
Kampala kindergarten stabbingUganda child safetypublic securitypolice investigationconflictView Briefing - HIGHSEV 78
Russia tightens election grip and sanctions evasion—while foreign networks and coup plots raise the stakes
YablokoSupreme Court of Russiaanti-war partyEU sanctionssecurityView Briefing - HIGHSEV 74
West Africa’s “open borders” era ends as jihadists reshape security—and markets brace
West AfricajihadistsearthworkstrenchessecurityView Briefing - HIGHSEV 72
Yemen’s war widens and West Africa’s jihad map shifts—are regional flashpoints converging?
Yemen escalationHouthi rebels Ansar AllahSaudi-led coalitionUnited NationssecurityView Briefing - HIGHSEV 72
Mali’s Tuareg rebels escalate: “Junta will fall” as Russia’s Africa Corps pulls back
Azawad Liberation FrontTuareg rebelsMali juntaAfrica Corps withdrawalconflictView Briefing - HIGHSEV 72
From Sahel spillover to xenophobia warnings and child-crime loopholes—what’s driving the next security shock?
Sweden child recruitmentage of criminal responsibility 15xenophobic attacks South AfricaSahel insurgencysecurityView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 68
Peru’s Election Under Fire: Can Voters Break a Decade of Chaos as Crime and Corruption Dominate?
Peru presidential electionviolent crimecorruption35 candidatespoliticalView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 68
AI security races, US-China chip limits, and new AI rules—are governments losing control?
Cisco AI agent security toolsAI exposes holes in Army unified networkMicrosoft new AI modelsbill to regulate military uses of AIsecurityView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 62
Food security fears rise as Middle East shipping chokepoints threaten Russia’s grain plans
Russia Security CouncilAlexander Maslennikovfood securityStrait of HormuzeconomyView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 62
Cape Town’s “tender shadow” and West Africa’s courtroom politics—while Syria’s Assad-era security chief faces trial
Madlanga commissionCape TownBlack BooksR8 billion tenderpoliticalView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 62
Albanese’s “petro-diplomacy” and the next political tests: from Benin’s transition to Brazil’s election fears
petro-diplomacyAnthony AlbaneseHungary parliamentary electionU.S. interferencepoliticalView Briefing - ELEVATEDSEV 62
G7 mineral talks, Ormuz islands in the spotlight, and a “make-or-break” ceasefire: what’s really shifting
G7 critical mineralsDario Duriganceasefire talksShehbaz SharifdiplomacyView Briefing
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