Mauritania Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Totals

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides this weekly updated dataset of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Mauritania. The data is aggregated at the country-year and country-month levels to track conflict trends over time. It serves as a longitudinal record of reported instability within the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence counts over years and months
• Comparing the frequency of civilian-targeting events against demonstration events
• Forecasting conflict intensity based on historical monthly aggregates

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized aggregation by country-year and country-month
• Sourced from ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular event-level details
• Requires external registration on the ACLED website for full event data access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Mauritania