Zambia Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Offering weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Zambia, aggregated by month and year. Produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the records track conflict trends through March 2026. The data is delivered in XLSX format and serves as a high-level summary of national instability.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Correlating demonstration frequency with national policy changes or election cycles
• Monitoring the frequency of civilian-targeting incidents over multi-year periods

Strengths

• Standardized event categories including civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal trend analysis
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data collection

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular geospatial mapping of specific incidents
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration on the ACLED website
• Geographic scope is restricted solely to Zambia

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Zambia