Nigeria Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations
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Description
Supplying weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Nigeria, aggregated by month and year. Produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the records are updated weekly to track conflict trends.
Use Cases
Trend analysis of 'political violence' event counts over multiple years
Assessing the frequency of 'civilian-targeting' incidents for risk modeling
Longitudinal study of 'demonstration events' to track civil unrest patterns
Strengths
Weekly update cycle
Aggregated by country-year and country-month
Sourced from ACLED's expert-monitored conflict database
Limitations
Lacks sub-national geographic detail
Requires external registration for granular event-level data
Limited to three specific event categories
Provenance
Source
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
Collection Method
Expert-led monitoring and aggregation of reported conflict events
Time Range
Up to 2026
Freshness
Updated weekly.
Geography
Nigeria
This file contains aggregated data only; full event-level data (including coordinates and actors) requires registration and use of the ACLED Data Export Tool or API.