Burkina Faso Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data

Aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Burkina Faso are provided weekly by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to facilitate high-level trend analysis.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of political violence over time using country-year and country-month aggregates
• Monitoring the frequency of civilian-targeting incidents in Burkina Faso
• Correlating demonstration counts with national-level political shifts

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a primary source for conflict monitoring
• Weekly update frequency
• Categorizes events into specific types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular spatial or daily analysis
• Full event-level data is gated behind ACLED registration

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly; current as of March 2026.

Geography

Burkina Faso