Africa

africa assignments

Conflict Resources

Graphic Novel about DRC - Part 1; Part 2

An organization called IRIN has a useful interactive called Mapped: A World At War.

The Global Conflict Tracker comes from The Council on Foreign Relations.

ConflictMap.org

Bloomberg has an interactive called The Ungoverned World.

The Global Dashboard is the coolest-looking of this bunch, but I’m not sure how useful it is.

Here’s an interactive focusing exclusively on conflicts related to water.

Troubled Democracies in Africa

Congo's Slide Into Chaos; Congo Crisis

Of course, you can identify hotspots of conflict based on where refugees are fleeing. Here some tools that identify those flows:

The Refugee Project.

Visualizing the Flow of Asylum Seekers Into the Industrialized World is from Metrocosm.

The Flight of Refugees Around the Globe is from The New York Times.