Kenya’s Political Violence Landscape in the Lead-Up to the 2022 Elections
Kenya went to the polls on 9 August 2022 after a five-year cycle and the…
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No safety in numbers: political representation and political violence targeting women in Kenya
This journal article, co-authored by ACLED Director of Research & Innovation Dr. Roudabeh Kishi, along…
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Regional Overview: Africa
20-26 September 2020
Last week in Africa, Kenyan and Somali forces clashed following a Kenyan military incursion into…
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Comparing ‘new’ and ‘old’ media crisis monitoring in Kenya’s unprecedented elections
Media monitoring can play an important role in tracking, preventing, responding to and understanding violence…
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Regional Overview: Africa
26 July-1 August 2020
Last week in Africa, significant outbreaks of intercommunal violence were reported in Sudan, South Sudan,…
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Regional Overview: Africa
12-18 April 2020
Last week in Africa, the Government of National Accord (GNA) made strategic gains against the…
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Regional Overview: Africa
5-11 April 2020
Last week, heavy fighting continued in the Sahel, as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militants…
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Regional Overview: Africa
29 March-4 April 2020
In Africa last week, government responses to the growing spread of the coronavirus prompted violent…
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CDT Spotlight:
Media Targeting
Many states are likely to use the pandemic as a pretext to impose new restrictions…
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