South Sudan Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence Counts

ACLED provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in South Sudan. The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time. This dataset is maintained by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in political violence counts across different years
• Monitoring monthly fluctuations in civilian-targeting events
• Correlating demonstration event volumes with national policy changes

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized event categories for political violence and demonstrations
• Data sourced from ACLED specialized conflict monitoring

Limitations

• Aggregated format obscures specific incident locations
• Full event-level details require external registration and are not included in this XLSX file

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary conflict event reports

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

South Sudan