Welcome to the June issue of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project’s (ACLED) Conflict Trends report. Each month, ACLED researchers gather, analyse and publish data on political violence in Africa in realtime. Weekly updates to realtime conflict event data are published on the ACLED website, and are also available through our research partners at Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS).
This month’s issue focuses on a stabilisation in the conflict environment in Libya, armed offensives and escalating protests in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a geographical shift in clashes between SPLA/M-IO and military forces in South Sudan, the impact of the rainy season in Sudan on restricting political violence in in South Kordofan, increasing conflict activity in south-eastern Tunisia and the threat of Islamic State. A Special Report focuses on local conflict and violence monitors.
Elsewhere on the continent, violence against civilians is witnessing a slight drop in Burundi in May, rival armed groups clashed in the Koui and Bocaranga areas of Central African Republic, and protest activity continued to fall in Ethiopia.