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Kenya – November 2017 Update

Kenya – November 2017 Update

Despite the spectre of the 2007 post-election violence looming over Kenya’s elections this year, the level of events and fatalities have proven to be more comparable to the 2013 elections than those of 2007. Although election-related events in the months

Matt Batten-Carew November 14, 2017 Elections, Kenya Read more

Kenya – September 2017 Update

Kenya – September 2017 Update

As Kenya heads for another election on 17 October to decide who will be president, we review how the August election passed. Concerns are growing that many of the local close elections will be re-contested, especially given the rate of

Clionadh Raleigh September 22, 2017September 26, 2017 Elections, Kenya Read more

Democratic Republic of Congo – September 2017 Update

Democratic Republic of Congo – September 2017 Update

On 19 December 2016, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR-Congo) Joseph Kabila’s constitutionally-mandated two-term limit expired. Shortly after this deadline passed, the Congolese Catholic Church mediated the signing of the Saint Sylvester Agreement on New Year’s Eve in

Matt Batten-Carew September 22, 2017 Democratic Republic of Congo, Elections Read more

Kenya – June 2017 Update

Kenya – June 2017 Update

The parties, locations and intensity of political violence in Kenya has varied widely since the beginning of 2017 (see Figure 1). Increased political tension due to the upcoming August election has generated fear that Kenya’s multiple conflicts will intensify during

Charles Vannice July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Elections, Kenya Read more

Pro-government militias and electoral violence in Kenya

Pro-government militias and electoral violence in Kenya

Pro-government militias (hereafter PGMs) are political, armed organizations that assist regime and state elites through the practice of illicit violence. They are designed to perpetuate conflict for purposes that conform to regime agendas, and their existence can shed light on

Roudabeh Kishi May 16, 2017 Elections, Kenya, Pro-Government Militias Read more

Electoral Violence in South Asia: Local Elections in West Bengal & Bangladesh

Electoral Violence in South Asia: Local Elections in West Bengal & Bangladesh

Between March and June, local elections in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India,  led to a spike in political violence and protests. Despite a long-standing history of electoral violence in both areas, the extent and pattern of violence, especially in

Nina Kaysser October 17, 2016November 3, 2016 Asia, Bangladesh, Elections, India, Local-Level Violence Read more

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This page contains data and analysis from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). Users can access data, papers, trend analysis etc at acleddata.com. Both the data project and the data team's information is available on that site.
ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) is designed for disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping. This dataset codes the locations, dates and types of all reported conflict events in over 50 countries in the developing world. Data are available for public download from the data page.
ACLED is directed by Prof. Clionadh Raleigh and has been supported by the World Bank's Development Economics Group Research Support Budget, the Irish Research Council, Minerva project funding through the CCAPS program and the European Research Commission.
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