Welcome to the December 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 Boko Haram violence and general elections in Nigeria, xenophobic riots and tuition fee protests in universities in South Africa, the trajectory of conflict in South Sudan as it enters its third year of civil war, an increase in ethnic and communal violence as progovernment militias scaled down attacks in Sudan, and riot and protest activity and strategic shifts in Islamist violence in Tunisia. A special report highlights Political Developments and Unexpected Trends across Africa in 2015.
Elsewhere on the continent, socio-economic protests escalated in Algeria, anti-government protests transformed into armed resistance in Burundi,
Islamic State militants ramped up attacks on Ajdabiya in Libya, and battles declined in Somalia.