Cape Verde Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data

ACLED provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Cape Verde. The data is organized into country-year and country-month intervals to track conflict trends over time. This dataset is maintained by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual demonstration frequencies via country-year aggregations
• Monitoring civilian-targeting incidents over time in Cape Verde

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized ACLED event categories
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for easy trend analysis

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific event coordinates or granular dates
• Requires external registration for full event-level data
• Geographic scope is limited to Cape Verde

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Cape Verde