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Data update: Correction of “Violent Demonstration” Events in Southern and East Africa
New corrections published for 'Violent Demonstration' events in Southern and East Africa
On 2 September 2025, ACLED completed a review of ‘Violent demonstration’ events in its Southern and East Africa datasets to enhance data accuracy. These data corrections are part of a larger initiative to improve ACLED’s ‘Violent demonstration’ event data.
A total of 6,668 events were reviewed as part of this project. Of these, 516 events (8% of total ‘Violent demonstration’ events in this region) were corrected to other Sub-event types.
Key Changes
Correction period and scope: 1 January 2018 - Present for Southern and East Africa data
Total number of events corrected: 516
Details of corrections:
- 395 events corrected from ‘Violent demonstration’ to ‘Peaceful protest’
- 107 events corrected from ‘Violent demonstration’ to ‘Protest with intervention’
- 12 events corrected from ‘Violent demonstration to ‘Excessive force against protesters’