Research areas
Independent intelligence on security risk, operational risk, regional security, emerging threats and early warning across all 54 African countries and adjacent maritime corridors.
Research areas
Each area feeds the others: open-source monitoring supplies the raw material, analysis adds context and judgement, and practical resources turn the findings into something usable in the field.
Threat identification, vulnerability and exposure analysis, likelihood and impact rating, and mitigation logic for inland movement, sites and operating environments.
Structured open-source intelligence across Africa: incident monitoring, indicator tracking and specialist watches. Records are harvested from public sources, cross-referenced where possible, and published with provenance and reliability grading.
Analysis of political transitions, armed conflict dynamics, actor alignment, sanctions and regional competition — traced through to what it means for security posture, movement and continuity in specific countries.
Journey, corridor and route-risk research examining how changing inland security conditions affect movement and duty of care. No physical protection, rescue or evacuation services are provided.
The discipline that carries a finding from assessment to closure: scoping security workstreams, sequencing mitigation, assigning ownership, tracking implementation and evidencing that controls were actually put in place.
Crisis phases, scenario planning, incident classification and post-incident analysis — designed so the first hour of an incident follows a rehearsed structure rather than improvisation.
How we support users
A simple way to read the platform. Each step maps to one of the three focus areas.
Monitor
Security Intelligence & OSINTAssess
Risk & Threat AnalysisManage
Security Project ManagementSupporting research themes
These surfaces organise the platform's open-source intelligence, country records and operational tools.
A structured Africa risk dashboard summarising analyst-reviewed records, threat levels and country exposure.
Country-by-country security and political risk ratings with the reasoning and evidence behind each rating.
A transparent catalogue of the open sources, datasets and methodologies used across the platform, with reliability grades.
How statements are classified, how confidence is assigned and how the platform separates public data from analyst judgement.
Open-source intelligence
Mazin Intel is an independent, founder-led intelligence practice. Its analysis is built from open-source and licensed public data, cross-referenced where possible and published with source attribution and confidence. It is not a continuously staffed monitoring service and does not provide physical security, rescue or evacuation.
Source registryPan-African coverage across all 54 countries.
Mazin Intel provides Africa-focused intelligence and research, with particular operational depth across the Horn of Africa and East Africa — Somalia, Somaliland, Puntland, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
How the work connects
Open-source tracking produces raw material, contextual analysis adds judgement, and practical resources turn insight into usable tools.
Monitor
Security Intelligence & OSINTAssess
Risk & Threat AnalysisManage
Security Project ManagementResearch environment
An open-source research environment maintained by Mazin Intel.
Information is compiled from publicly available sources and presented with clear distinctions between confirmed information, reported information, analytical assessment and potential scenarios.
Independent research
Open-source analysis of security developments, operational risk and emerging threats across Africa, with a focus on Africa.
For shipowners, insurers and risk teams
Country, port and voyage briefings with named sources, stated confidence and clear evidence limits.