Eritrea Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Eritrea - Conflict Events provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Eritrea, produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time. This version is updated through March 2026 and serves as a high-level monitoring tool for regional stability.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in civilian-targeting events to assess human rights conditions
• Correlating monthly political violence counts with national policy shifts or elections
• Monitoring the frequency of demonstration events as an indicator of civil unrest

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data collection
• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring of political violence
• Standardized categorization of event types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Lacks granular incident-level details such as specific locations or individual event descriptions
• Geographically restricted to Eritrea
• Requires external API or tool registration for access to the underlying raw event data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated on a weekly basis.

Geography

Eritrea