Somalia Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

ACLED provides this weekly updated dataset tracking political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstrations in Somalia. The data is aggregated into country-year and country-month summaries to monitor conflict trends through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Correlating civilian-targeting event frequencies with humanitarian indicators in Somalia
• Monitoring annual shifts in demonstration activity to assess political stability

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Sourced from ACLED, a primary authority in conflict data
• Categorized by event types including civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national geospatial analysis
• Full event-level data requires external registration and API access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from reported conflict events

Time Range

Ending March 2026

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

Somalia