Algeria Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Algeria, curated by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured by country-year and country-month intervals and is updated on a weekly basis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in Algerian political violence using country-month aggregates
• Comparing annual frequencies of civilian-targeting events versus demonstrations
• Monitoring weekly changes in reported demonstration counts for regional stability assessments

Strengths

• Expert-curated data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized categorization of events into political violence and civilian-targeting

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific incident locations or individual event actors
• Full granular event data is gated behind external registration on the ACLED website

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event reports

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Algeria