For the past 20 years
This is a map which pins each of the reported location of conflicts. You can click on a pin to see the death toll, you can zoom in and out, and you have different views of the map.
Things that are recognizable here is that as you search through higher death tolls, all the pins tend to be around the mid region on Africa. From this we can tell that most of events that happen towards the middle of the continent are much more violent than the edges.
In this small linked multiple, each line chart represents the number of conflict per year for that conflict type. You can hover over one of them and it will have a tooltip appear at each graph showing the count. This is to make it easier to compare all of the event types
Some of the things you can notice is that riots/protests, violence against civilians, and battles with no change of territories are on the rise in most recent years.
This graph represents all strengths of different conflicts between the
multiple organization types. Each node represents an organization type in
Africa while each link represents a specific type of conflict between the different nodes.
The weight of the link represents the larger number of instances between the two nodes
showcasing huge conflicts between those two types of organizations found in Africa.
Government or mutinous force Rebel force Political militia Ethnic militia Rioters Protesters Civilians Outside/external force
Using the comments for each instance we constructed a word cloud based on the most frequent words for each year of our data set.
These word clouds show the most used words for each year which can tell us a summary of what most likely happened.
The total count of yearly fatalities has decreased since 1997, while the count of yearly conflicts appears to be increasing. The increased rate of conflicts may suggest that political stability may be decreasing, but the drastic reduction in fatalities is a positive indication.