Unrest as local outlets report it
Protests over prices, labour disputes and local clashes are covered by local outlets, often before international coverage or the next index update picks them up.
Commercial
Political risk data, traced to the local reporting
Underwriting a frontier market usually starts from broker submissions, a country score and wire coverage. Living Signals adds daily local reporting on protests, strikes, attacks on infrastructure and government action, each located and linked to the articles that reported it.
Built for: Political-violence, political-risk and trade-credit underwriters, reinsurers and brokers.
Why it matters
What it adds to the underwriting file
Located near your risks
Where the reporting gives enough detail, Signals are located to the town or district, so you can see what is happening near an insured site or along a route.
Accounts compared across outlets
Reports about the same event are grouped into one Signal, and you can see where accounts and figures disagree. A single outlet’s story sits next to the others instead of standing alone.
Evidence you can file
Every Signal carries its sources. Attach them to a referral, a renewal note or a claims file.
Use cases
Where it fits in the insurance workflow
Country-risk monitoring
Daily reporting on the countries you write.
Follow strikes, riots and civil commotion, political violence and government action across the portfolio countries we cover, updated every day.
Exposure watch
See where reporting clusters near your exposures.
Filter Signals to the provinces and cities where you hold risk, and notice when reporting starts to concentrate there.
Claims context
What happened, where, and who reported it.
When a loss is notified, pull the local reporting on the event: dates, places, outlets and the languages it was reported in.
Renewal briefs
Back a decision with sourced evidence.
Export the Signals behind a country view into the underwriting file, or have an AI assistant draft the brief from them through MCP.
From the data
A real Signal from our data
Opposition protests against constitutional changes in Kinshasa
- Kinshasa, DR Congo
- 15 Sep 2026
- 17 sources
- 3 languages
An opposition coalition marched in the capital against proposed changes to the constitution. Outlets reported clashes, arrests and at least one death.
Why it matters here
An underwriter reviewing political-violence exposure in Kinshasa can compare seventeen outlets’ accounts of the march and the reported clashes in one Signal, located in the city.
Demo data covers one month in DR Congo, Cameroon and Mali.
Prediction-ready data
Inputs for your unrest models
Strikes, riots and civil commotion have caused more than $10 billion in insured losses since 2010 (source: Verisk, April 2025, opens in a new tab). The models that price that risk need dated, located evidence from frontier markets. We supply it, structured and linked to the local reporting.
Source: Verisk, April 2025
How it fits
Use it the way your team already works
Analyst dashboard
Search, map and filter Signals for your countries, updated overnight.
Exports
Signals and claims as files, with a link to every source article.
REST API
The same data through a documented API, for your own models and tools.
MCP connector
Ask Claude and other AI assistants questions about the data.
Sample brief
Want a sample brief?
We will put together a short brief from our data on one country you cover.
Talk to sales
Check the coverage for your portfolio
Pick a country where you write risk, and we will go through its recent Signals with you.