Update Log

Published on: On 29 October 2024, ACLED completed a review of all Islamic State actors in the dataset to standardize their naming conventions. Over 59,000 events previously coded with “Islamic State (COUNTRY)” as an actor have been updated to specify the relevant Islamic State “province” or group.…

Published on: ACLED is committed to continuously enhancing the quality and scope of its data. To that end, the Global Data Collection team and the Quality Assurance team conduct rigorous reviews of both the data and the reporting environment to ensure that the data remain reliable and accurately reflect on-the-ground trends.…

Published on: On 2 October 2024, ACLED completed a review of ‘Violent demonstration’ events in its East Asia Pacific dataset to enhance data accuracy. Over 200 events previously coded as ‘Violent demonstration’ have been reclassified as ‘Protest’ events to better reflect the distinction between destructive and non-destructive behavior.…

Published on: 11 October 2024 Starting from 16 September 2024, ACLED is including data from its partner organization Equal Access International for Cote d’Ivoire. In addition to weekly data updates, historical data going back to January 2021 have been added to ACLED’s dataset.Equal…

Published on: 26 September 2024 On 26 September 2024, ACLED changed the values of the interaction categorization columns to text descriptors rather than numbers. However, we will retain the option for users to revert to numeric values as needed.…