Madagascar Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Madagascar - Conflict Events provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence counts across Madagascar
• Comparing monthly demonstration frequencies to identify periods of civil unrest
• Correlating annual civilian-targeting totals with national socio-economic indicators

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized event categories including political violence and demonstrations
• Data provided by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national spatial analysis
• Requires external registration for granular event-level data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary event monitoring reports

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Madagascar