Senegal Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Data
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Description
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
Accessing granular event data requires registration on the ACLED website; this file contains only country-level aggregations.