Conflict Events 2020-2025
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) dataset is a disaggregated conflict event dataset designed for real-time monitoring and analysis. It records the specific dates, locations, actors, and types of all reported political violence and protest events to facilitate local and scale-dependant research on war patterns and processes. This layer show the ACLED data relative to the African continent recorded between 2020 and 2025.
ACLED updates the dataset every Monday here.
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Data provider
Contact point
admin@acleddata.com
Suggested citation
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED); www.acleddata.com. If using ACLED data in an academic paper or article, please cite as follows: Raleigh, Clionadh, Andrew Linke, Håvard Hegre, and Joakim Karlsen. (2010). “Introducing ACLED-Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.” Journal of Peace Research 47(5) 651- 660.
Licence
Date or time period of observation
2020-2025
Frequency of update
Geographic coverage
Cautions
Before downloading ACLED data, please review the Terms of Use and Attribution Policy (https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ACLED_TermsofUseAttributionPolicy_2020.pdf). If you have any questions, contact admin@acleddata.com.
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