Ghana Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Ghana provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month intervals to track national conflict trends. It is updated weekly to reflect the most recent reported incidents as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence counts to identify periods of high instability
• Correlating civilian-targeting event frequencies with national election cycles or policy changes
• Monitoring the volume of demonstration events to assess social and civil unrest over time

Strengths

• Standardized event categories including civilian-targeting and political violence
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal trend analysis

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national geospatial analysis of specific incidents
• Full event-level data is gated behind an external registration process
• Geographic scope is limited strictly to Ghana

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary event monitoring database

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Ghana