Weekly brief

• Russia Elevated → High

  UK FCDO advises against all travel to the whole country · 7 deaths in organised violence in the last 30 days · 10 critical internet-connectivity alerts in 24 hours

• Mexico Normal → Elevated

  8 deaths in organised violence in the last 30 days · 19 critical internet-connectivity alerts in 24 hours · 1 extreme weather warning in force from the national weather service

• Iraq Watch → Elevated

  UK FCDO advises against all travel to parts of the country · 20 critical internet-connectivity alerts in 24 hours

• Brazil Normal → Watch

  8 natural-hazard events in the last 7 days · 2 deaths in organised violence in the last 30 days

• Zimbabwe Normal → Watch

  26 critical internet-connectivity alerts in 24 hours · 1.3 million people in crisis-level food insecurity or worse (IPC 3+)

• Spain Normal → Watch

  2 extreme weather warnings in force from the national weather service · 1 Copernicus satellite-mapping activation for a disaster in the last 30 days

• Nigeria Severe → High
• Yemen Severe → High
• South Sudan Severe → High
• Burkina Faso High → Elevated
• Iran High → Elevated
• Niger High → Elevated
• Uganda Elevated → Normal
• Cameroon Elevated → Watch
• Nepal Watch → Normal

UCDP publishes with a lag: its last 30 days of data (up to 2026-08-31) against the 30 before. The current UCDP release does not reach back to the 30 days before, so there is no comparison (—).

Nothing this week.

• Kazakhstan 57 extreme of 77
• Colombia 7 extreme of 16
• Saudi Arabia 7 extreme of 29
• People's Republic of China 4 extreme of 26
• Ecuador 2 extreme of 6
• Spain 2 extreme of 36
• Mexico 1 extreme of 3
• Russia 1 extreme of 28

Nothing this week.

• Nigeria — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity at the same time
• Ukraine — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Mexico — Compound crisis: organised violence, internet outages, natural hazards at the same time
• Afghanistan — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Colombia — Compound crisis: organised violence, natural hazards, food insecurity at the same time
• Democratic Republic of the Congo — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, disease outbreaks, internet outages, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Mali — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity at the same time
• Pakistan — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity at the same time
• Russia — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, internet outages, natural hazards at the same time
• Somalia — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Sudan — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Syria — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Venezuela — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, internet outages, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time
• Yemen — Compound crisis: organised violence, official travel advice, food insecurity at the same time
• Ethiopia — Compound crisis: official travel advice, internet outages, food insecurity at the same time
• South Sudan — Compound crisis: official travel advice, food insecurity, mass displacement at the same time