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Four years since the 1 February 2021 coup in Myanmar, the political impasse that has generated increased conflict across the country is no closer to…
ACLED’s 2024 Year in Review infographic series highlights the most-read publications and lists the top 10 most-visited web pages for each of the six regions…
Israel’s continued military presence in southern Lebanon after the 26 January deadline has once again raised concerns over further confrontation along the border. During the…
Q&A with Ladd Serwat Africa Senior Analyst, ACLED After more than three years of renewed operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the March 23…
Tiziano Breda, Senior Analyst for Latin America & the Caribbean at conflict data mapping organization ACLED, said: “The offensive launched by the National Liberation Army…
Sandra Pellegrini, Senior Latin America Analyst at conflict data mapping organization ACLED said: “Labelling cartels as terrorist organizations opens the door for legal and political…
Despite the recent coordination between opposition groups in the Military Operations Command (MOC) coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the future shape of Syria…
On 6 and 7 December, Micanor Altès, leader of the Wharf Jérémie gang in Cité Soleil, reportedly ordered the killing of elderly residents in Wharf…
According to the latest ACLED figures, over 200 towns and villages in Syria have been captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led rebel forces from the…
Q&A with Kieran Doyle North America Research Manager Despite numerous expert warnings about the potential for political violence around the 5 November United States elections,…
Q&A with Ameneh Mehvar Middle East Regional Specialist Since mid-September, the nearly yearlong tit-for-tat exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel have sharply escalated into what is…
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is pleased to share that the partners behind the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d) will continue to support…
With a week to go before the 5 November US elections, political violence by extremist groups looks unlikely according to analysis by Kieran Doyle, US…
Q&A with Aaron A. Aambo, Dr. Eleanor Beevor, Dr. Manu Lekunze & Dr. Ladd Serwat Conflict Incident Monitor at Reach Out Cameroon, Senior Analyst at…
The Emergent Risk Situation Room™ now incorporates access to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED)
One month after the 28 July presidential elections, Venezuelans demonstrated at home and abroad to demand electoral authorities publish the election tally sheets.1Joshua Goodman and…
Q&A with Ladd Serwat and Héni Nsaibia ACLED Africa Regional Specialist and Associate Analysis Coordinator for West Africa How has Russian mercenary activity in Africa…
Palestine is the most dangerous place in the world, according to the ACLED Conflict Index, now updated with mid-year rankings. It finds that 87% of…
Thousands of students took to the streets across Bangladesh in early July after a High Court verdict reintroduced controversial quotas in government jobs1Under the quota…
The reverberations of the war in Gaza since the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel go well beyond the Gaza Strip. This Q&A looks at…
Source: México Evalúa | Mexico City, 2 July 2024 Leer en Español en México Evalúa Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), Data Cívica, México…
Violent attacks on European politicians over the past two months, coinciding with the rising popularity of radical political parties ahead of the 9 June elections…
Q&A with Nohad Eltayeb and Ali Mahmoud Ali ACLED Executive Research Assistant and Sudan Researcher Sudan’s one-year-old civil war has killed thousands of people, displaced…
As the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas has stalled, the Israeli military forces (IDF) have begun a ground operation in the Rafah governorate (see…
Student protests calling for divestment from Israel on university campuses around the United States are the latest sign of public discontent with the Israel-Palestine conflict.…
Note: For the most updated information on the US campus demonstrations, see this Brief updated on 10 May and Special Focus in the April Regional Overview. Pro-Palestine demonstrations…
Russia has exploited Ukrainian ammunition shortages due to the six-month delay in the approval of US military aid, sluggish deliveries from the EU, and the…
Around 75% of the over 1,200 detonations of landmines and remote explosives in Ukraine since 24 February 2022 have been reported to have hit civilians,…
Q&A with Nichita Gurcov ACLED Europe and Central Asia Specialist Two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilians are still under fire. In this…
As Rwanda-backed March 23 (M23) rebels and allied fighters push toward North Kivu’s capital city of Goma, ACLED is recording a sharp rise in the…
Q&A with Deborah Alois ACLED Pacific Region Researcher On Sunday, 18 February, intertribal violence in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea resulted in the…
Past months have seen increasing attacks and fatalities in Abyei, a disputed province on the border of South Sudan and Sudan. Fighting has flared between…
Update: 9 Feb 2023 | This factsheet includes information from the latest ACLED data on activity in Iraq, Syria and Yemen as of 4 February…
Q&A with Luca Nevola ACLED Middle East Regional Specialist Attacks by Yemen’s dominant Houthi forces on international shipping passing through the Red Sea have multiplied…
Three weeks after the initial Hamas attack on southern Israel, the IDF launched a ground operation into northern Gaza following intense airstrikes. Violence has simultaneously…
Conflict is widespread and pervasive. ACLED data indicate that political violence incidents are up 27% worldwide. In this Q&A to mark the release of our…
More than 60 people were killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a river boat near the village of Abakoira in Mali’s northern Tombouctou region…
ACLED records over 570 political violence events along the Armenia-Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact from the start of the year through the days leading up to…
Elections for a new president in Zimbabwe had chaotic moments and were heavily biased in favor of incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party.…
Violence is escalating in Amhara region, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. Nearly 30 clashes between government forces and Fano militias were…
While political violence incidents increased in Niger last year, the lethality of the violence has steadily declined, with a significant overall decrease in fatalities in…
Over 450 demonstration events were recorded across France in the immediate aftermath of the killing, marking a 380% increase compared to the previous week and…
Updated: 24 May 2023 | Since the start of the fighting in Sudan, ACLED has recorded almost 200 conflict incidents around the country, with more…
Anti-LGBT+ mobilization has risen to its highest levels since ACLED started collecting data for the United States in 2020.
A new platform developed by ACLED and CDD to monitor patterns of political violence around the 2023 Nigerian general elections.
A series of attacks targeting churches as well as Catholic and Protestant leaders has raised concerns about escalating violence against the Christian community in Nigeria
ACLED records a fourfold increase in anti-LGBT+ events from 2020 to 2021, and 2022 is currently on track to escalate even further.
Dozens of bomb and shooting threats have been recorded across the country this year, with a surge reported during Black History Month.
Since the attack, over 1,800 demonstrations have been reported worldwide.
New data on Canadian convoy protests and the police response.
Back-coding adds over 6,000 new events to the dataset for the seven countries covered by the pilot project.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now achieved global real-time coverage with a final geographic expansion to Canada, Oceania, Antarctica, and all…
Following the completion of the initial beta testing phase, ACLED is pleased to launch an updated and expanded version of the Early Warning Research Hub…
A year on from the Capitol attack, armed pro-Trump demonstrations continue around the country.
Three years ago, ACLED released new data capturing political violence targeting women (PVTW). Building on that work, ACLED has now expanded the data to introduce…
Civilian fatalities from anti-drug operations in the Philippines are at least 25% higher than official figures suggest, new data from the Armed Conflict Location &…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to 13 small states and territories in Africa and Asia, adding…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety, today released a new report documenting 560 armed demonstrations…
Key Trends Since former President Donald Trump issued an executive order widely seen as an attempt to ban critical race theory (CRT) in September 2020,…
At least 34 states have introduced “anti-protest” bills to restrict demonstration activity or to expand legal protections for drivers who strike protesters with their vehicles.
Download a PDF We are pleased to announce the launch of ACLED-Religion, our new pilot project collecting real-time data on religious repression and disorder across…
Download a PDF 5 February 2021: New US Crisis Monitor data extend ACLED’s coverage of political violence and demonstration activity in the United States to…
14 January 2021: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to all of Europe, extending the dataset to…
9 December 2020: Historical back-coding extends ACLED’s coverage of Latin America & the Caribbean1ACLED’s Latin America & Caribbean dataset covers more than 40 countries and…
3 December 2020: Historical back-coding for 2018, as well as supplemental data drawing on 18 new sources, together result in ACLED’s most comprehensive coverage of…
Download a PDF 31 August 2020: Nearly 11,000 demonstration, political violence, and strategic development events are recorded across America since the end of May, according…
A special project launched by ACLED and BDI to track political violence and demonstration activity in the United States.
30 June 2020: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to East Asia. The new data span six…
On 15 March 2020, Syria entered its 10th year of war. Although ACLED data show an overall decrease in violence over the course of 2019,…
At the height of the Arab Spring in February 2011, a mass protest movement took to the streets in Bahrain calling for democratic reforms, human…
27 February 2020: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has now expanded real-time coverage to Latin America and the Caribbean. These new…
31 October 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) currently records more than 100,000 reported fatalities in Yemen since 2015, including over…
24 October 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the expansion of real-time coverage to Central Asia and…
25 July 2019: An upsurge in subregional conflict, an outbreak of the Ebola virus, and a contentious election combined to make 2018 one of the…
3 July 2019: Violence against civilians has continued unabated in the Philippines through the first half of 2019, prompting condemnation last week from the UN…
19 June 2019: On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, ACLED data confirm that sexual violence remains a serious threat…
18 June 2019: New data for 2015 bring the total number of reported fatalities in Yemen to more than 91,000 over the past four and…
28 May 2019: Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. According to new data on political violence targeting women collated…
28 May 2019: Twenty years after the United Nations officially added the protection of civilians in armed conflict to the Security Council agenda, noncombatants continue…
With the release of its new sub-event type categorization ACLED now includes a ‘Sexual violence’ sub-event type under the larger ‘Violence against civilians’ event type.…
18 April 2019: More than 10,000 people have been reported killed in Yemen over the last five months, bringing the war’s total death toll to…
5 April 2019: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the incorporation of new data collected by the Syrian…
2 April 2019: Data for more than 23,500 political violence and protest events across Eastern Europe are now available from the Armed Conflict Location &…
Across Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, and Cyprus, nearly 1,700 political violence and protests events were recorded, the majority of which are protests. Nearly half…
ACLED has recorded over 2,000 political violence and protest events in the Balkans — defined as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Serbia —…
Over 700 political violence and protest events spread across Romania, Moldova, and Belarus have been recorded in 2018 and since. Most of these events have…
Over 2,000 political violence and protest events took place in Russia in 2018. A vast majority of these were protest events, including anti-government protests and…
By far the highest number of political violence and protest events in Europe have taken place in Ukraine, with over 17,500 total events. A vast…
ACLED’s new Europe dataset has over 23,500 new political violence and protest events, spanning 15 countries across Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, and…
28 March 2019: As the UN Security Council returns from a visit to Mali and Burkina Faso, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project…
22 March 2019: Eight years into the Syrian Civil War, the country remains one of the deadliest places for civilians according to data collected by…
20 March 2019: With the UN announcing a new plan to shore up the December 2018 Stockholm Agreement between Yemen’s warring parties, the latest Armed…
ACLED has debuted new event types to make analysis for users easier and more informative, and has also added a new sub-event type variable, which…
21 December 2018: Despite a decrease in total fatalities this year, the majority of countries experienced more conflict, expanding the scope of political violence across…
11 December 2018: As UN-led peace talks proceed in Stockholm and a landmark bill to end US support for the Saudi-backed coalition works its way…
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is pleased to announce the release of the most comprehensive dataset on the Syrian conflict to…
Nearly 2500 additional conflict, protest, and non-violent events have been added to the ACLED Nepal dataset, expanding coverage back to 2010. The newly added data…
Spanning from 2010 to the present, ACLED’s dataset for Myanmar includes over 5,000 recorded events. The data cover three political periods: the tail-end of the…
ACLED’s Thailand dataset contains nearly 3,000 recorded political violence, protest, and other non-violent political events from 2010 through the present. Throughout most of the country,…
Over 1000 events have been added to ACLED’s Cambodia dataset — extending coverage back to 2010 — bringing the total number of reported political violence,…
Over 250 additional events were added to the ACLED Vietnam dataset, nearly tripling the number of political violence, protest, and non-violent events in Vietnam coded…
The period of ACLED’s coverage of Sri Lanka, 2010-2014, was bookended by the country’s sixth and seventh presidential elections, each marking major political events in…
Over 3700 political violence, protests, and other non-violent events have been added to ACLED’s Bangladesh dataset. This new release represents the addition of two major…
Recorded political violence, protests, and other non-violent events drastically increased in the Philippines after President Duterte assumed office (June 30, 2016) and declared a ‘War…
During 2016, the war in Syria greatly impacted Lebanon due to the more than one million Syrian refugees entering the country, and the active fighting…
In 2016, an increase in the development of settlements by Israel in the Palestinian West Bank was recorded while discriminatory land policies remained in place…
In Turkey, the beginning of 2016 was marked by escalating violence in the southeast as part of the renewed Kurdish/Turkish conflict following the 20 July…
In 2016, high periods of demonstration activity were reported during three particular periods in Bahrain. First, the year started with Saudi Arabia executing the prominent…
2016 was marked by an upsurge in Iran’s conflict with Kurdish insurgents. From the mid-1990s through 2016, the Iranian Kurdish parties had refrained from taking…
In 2016, the groundwork was laid for the dramatic defeat of the Islamic State in 2017. During offensives throughout the year, a number of towns…
On Monday, May 14, the US moving of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on the 70th anniversary of the formation of Israel was met…
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