Sao Tome and Principe: Aggregated Political Violence and Conflict Events

Aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Sao Tome and Principe are provided weekly by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries, with the latest update recorded in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in political violence counts across country-year and country-month timeframes
• Quantifying civilian-targeting incidents to identify periods of increased humanitarian risk
• Correlating the frequency of demonstration events with national socio-political developments

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized event categories including civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Authored by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific event locations or exact dates
• Granular event-level data requires external registration and API access
• Limited to a single country's geographic scope

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Weekly updates; current through March 2026.

Geography

Sao Tome and Principe