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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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.
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Date or time period of observation
2020-2025
Frequency of Update
Geographic coverage
WMS base URL
https://africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu/geoserver/gwc/
Legend URL
https://africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu/geoserver/wms?REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&VERSION=1.3.0&FORMAT=image/png&LEGEND_OPTIONS=bgColor:0x2f3438;fontColor:0xffffff&WIDTH=20&HEIGHT=20&transparent=true&LAYER=akp:conflict_acled
Layer Data Type
Geospatial server type
Contact Point
admin@acleddata.com
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