Senegal Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data

Weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstrations in Senegal are provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). Updated through March 2026, the data is structured into country-year and country-month summary files for longitudinal analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of political violence events using country-year aggregations
• Tracking monthly trends in civilian-targeting incidents to identify periods of heightened risk
• Correlating demonstration event counts with national political developments in Senegal

Strengths

• Sourced from ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Includes distinct categories for civilian-targeting and demonstration events
• Updated weekly to provide current insights into Senegalese political stability

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents spatial analysis of specific incident locations
• Full event-level granularity is restricted to registered ACLED users
• Metadata lacks specific column headers and total record counts

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event reports

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Senegal