James Moody is Africa Research Manager with ACLED. In this role he oversees the coding of political violence and protest across all countries in Africa. He is also a Geography PhD Candidate at the University of Sussex. His research interests include protest movements across North and sub-Saharan Africa and the dynamics of civil war violence. His own research explores the rising wave of protest in the post-Arab uprising period, focusing on local level governance, forms of contention, and protest geography, diffusion, and escalation across Africa. James has country-specific knowledge on Egypt and Libya. He is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.
An overview of Egypt from January – December 2016 indicates a stable and consistent level…
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Political violence and protest events in Egypt have been rising since August 2016, largely driven…
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The number of conflict events recorded by ACLED in Libya remained stable throughout September 2016,…
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Riots and protests increased in Gabon since July 2016. The majority of these events are…
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Zambia provides a typical case study for the growing protest movements appearing in sub-Saharan Africa…
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Since 2013, riots and protests have been the dominant political expression recorded in African countries…
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Recent analyses on Libya point to the potentially destabilising effects of a possible international intervention…
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Since the beginning of March 2016, protests in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia have sharply…
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The number of reported abuses committed by Egyptian police forces dropped in March following a…
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