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Equatorial Guinea
0.8% annual new-conflict probability
How to read these probabilities: Scores estimate the probability of a new armed conflict starting within the next 12 months. Ongoing conflicts can have a saturation effect, reducing the modelled probability of an additional conflict onset. A low or falling score does not imply less severe ongoing fighting or a safer country.
Population
1.94M
GDP
$12.82B
Currency
XAF
Capital
Malabo
Land area
28.05K km²
Official languages
French, Portuguese, Spanish
Risk assessment
Risk profile
The 12-month probability of a new armed-conflict onset in Equatorial Guinea is 0.8%, a minimal risk. The country has experienced authoritarian rule and concentrated political power since the 1979 coup, but has not developed a sustained insurgency or civil war in recent decades. Strong executive control, limited political pluralism, and substantial resource revenues have generally contained organised domestic challengers.
Recent reporting provides no indication of mobilisation by domestic armed groups, elite fracture, cross-border attacks, or hostile activity by neighbouring states. The reported withdrawal of Panthers FC from the 2026–2027 CAF Confederation Cup, before its scheduled match against USM Alger, is a sporting and administrative development rather than a conflict signal. No prediction markets were available for this country.
The main uncertainty is whether an unexpected succession crisis, attempted coup, repression-driven unrest, or external dispute could rapidly overcome the state’s established control mechanisms. Risk would rise most clearly with credible reports of armed defections, clashes involving security forces, or organised opposition activity inside the country; it would remain lower if political control and the absence of armed mobilisation persist.
Strategic reasoning
- Long-standing executive dominance and the absence of a recent insurgency or civil war reduce the likelihood that political tensions develop into sustained armed violence, while the 1979 coup remains relevant historical context.
- The current evidence contains no credible escalatory security signal. The strongest stabilising factor is the state’s continued control over organised force and the lack of reported domestic or cross-border armed activity affecting Equatorial Guinea.
Critical indicators
- In reporting on the 2026–2027 CAF Confederation Cup, Panthers FC of Equatorial Guinea withdrew before its scheduled second-round tie against USM Alger. This is an institutional or sporting development with no reported connection to armed conflict.
- No prediction market was available for Equatorial Guinea, and recent reporting identifies no armed incident on its territory. The country’s record of concentrated rule without a sustained contemporary insurgency continues to support the minimal level of onset risk.
Probability trend
How the Equatorial Guinea estimate has moved
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Current conflicts
Source: UCDP
No active conflicts in Equatorial Guinea.
Regional context
Equatorial Guinea compared with its neighbours and region
Equatorial Guinea ranks number 123 of 196 in new conflict outbreak risk.
Land neighbours
Middle Africa
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