Gambia Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

A source of weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstration events in Gambia, curated by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Correlating civilian-targeting frequency with national policy changes over time
• Monitoring the volume of demonstration events to assess social stability in Gambia

Strengths

• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal trend analysis
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring
• Distinguishes between civilian-targeting and general political violence

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular geographic coordinates for specific incidents
• Full event-level data requires external registration and API access via ACLED

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

Gambia