Welcome to the July 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 decrease in overall violence levels in the Central African Republic and a rise in clashes between nomadic herders in the northwest and settled populations; Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) reform protests that have concentrated in Nairboi and the Nyanza region of Kenya and increased attacks in Juba in South Sudan. A Special Report explores the geography of protest across Africa to understand how protest patterns and dynamics reflect local political contexts.
Elsewhere on the continent, Nigerian military forces successfully regained territory from Boko Haram in Borno State and in Libya, remote violence escalated in June as Islamic State militants lost territory to Presidency Council forces.