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 increasing intramilitia violence in Central African Republic, the continuation of political violence dynamics in Democratic Republic of Congo and the emergence of the Kamwina Nsapu militia in 2016, the poorly developed protest landscape in Egypt under an increasingly repressive el-Sisi regime, endemic student and election riots and protests across South Africa, and the geographic escalation of remote violence activity in clashes between rebels and the government in Sudan.
Elsewhere on the continent, in Ethiopia, riots and protests decreased as battles surged to levels 200% higher than in October and simmering militia tensions erupted in Tripoli as armed groups competed for political advantage in Libya.