Election-related violence in Pakistan | ACLED Insight
14 February 2024
The Pakistan elections have been marred by boycotts, accusations of military interference, and increased militant attacks — particularly in Balochistan. ACLED records 5 times more attacks in Balochistan in the last 2 weeks alone than in the entire month prior.
Read MoreACLED Brief | Violence Rises Across South Sudan’s Disputed Abyei State
9 February 2024
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 the Twic Dinka and Ngok Dinka, who have previously clashed in 2022 and 2023 (see ACLED’s Sudan: Deadly Violence in the Disputed Abyei Area from March 2023). Disputes focus on…
Read MoreYemen Situation Update: January 2024
5 February 2024
Yemen Conflict Observatory // Monthly Report Yemen Situation Update: January 2024 YCO Home Actor Profiles Houthis Internationally Recognized Government Saudi-led Coalition Resistance Forces Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula Islamic State in Yemen Southern Transitional Council Elite Forces Security Belt Forces Joint Forces on the West Coast National Resistance Forces Southern Giants Brigade Tihama Resistance Regional Profiles…
Read MoreACLED Factsheet | US strikes and counter-strikes in the Middle East (Updated 2/9/23)
3 February 2024
Update: 9 Feb 2023 | This factsheet includes information from the latest ACLED data on activity in Iraq, Syria and Yemen as of 4 February 2024. The outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict on 7 October 2023 is bringing the Middle East to the edge of a broader war. Although both Iranian and United States officials…
Read MoreFarmer Protests Across Europe
2 February 2024
Farmer demands for more economic protection and less regulation have led to a surge in protests across Europe in the past three months, and especially in the past three weeks.
Read MoreMyanmar: Momentum from Operation 1027 Threatens Military Rule
1 February 2024
Since launching Operation 1027 on 27 October 2023, the Brotherhood Alliance, alongside anti-coup forces, has made some of the most significant territorial gains since the 2021 coup, seizing military and police positions in Chin, Rakhine, northern Shan, and Mandalay
Read MorePolitical Repression and Militant Targeting Set the Stage for Pakistan’s 2024 Elections
1 February 2024
After nearly two years of political turmoil, Pakistan is set to hold elections for its national and provincial assemblies on 8 February.
Read MoreUS Airstrikes Escalate Against the ‘Axis of Resistance’ | ACLED Insight
29 January 2024
Amid nearly 200 attacks on US targets in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq since 7 Oct, ACLED counts at least 61 incidents of US airstrikes against ‘axis of resistance’ targets in the Middle East.
Read MoreSomalia Situation Update: January 2024 | The Complexities of the Somaliland-Ethiopia Sea Access Deal
26 January 2024
Political tensions are high in the Horn of Africa following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland, which provides sea access to landlocked Ethiopia in exchange for the recognition of the breakaway territory of Somaliland as a sovereign state.
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