{
  "dataset": "crisis-tracker",
  "slug": "sahel-insurgency",
  "title": "Sahel insurgency tracker",
  "shortTitle": "Sahel insurgency",
  "description": "Monthly conflict pulse for Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger: recorded events, political violence and fatalities from HAPI/HDX humanitarian summaries in a fixed three-country scope.",
  "overview": "This tracker covers the central Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, whose insurgencies cross shared borders. Totals are aggregated from subnational humanitarian records and are not a territorial control map, a displacement estimate, or a forecast.",
  "coverage": [
    {
      "code": "BF",
      "name": "Burkina Faso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ML",
      "name": "Mali"
    },
    {
      "code": "NE",
      "name": "Niger"
    }
  ],
  "source": "shared/crawlable-crises.json",
  "license": "https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/terms",
  "maintainedPulse": {
    "state": "ready",
    "eventsTotal": 351,
    "fatalities": 863,
    "politicalViolenceEvents": 338,
    "referencePeriod": "2026-08-01",
    "asOf": "2026-09-08T03:30:38.501Z",
    "missingCountries": [],
    "rows": [
      {
        "code": "BF",
        "name": "Burkina Faso",
        "events": 122,
        "fatalities": 322,
        "political": 112,
        "demonstrations": 10,
        "referencePeriod": "2026-08-01",
        "updatedAt": "2026-09-08T03:30:38.501Z"
      },
      {
        "code": "ML",
        "name": "Mali",
        "events": 156,
        "fatalities": 371,
        "political": 156,
        "demonstrations": 0,
        "referencePeriod": "2026-08-01",
        "updatedAt": "2026-09-08T03:30:38.501Z"
      },
      {
        "code": "NE",
        "name": "Niger",
        "events": 73,
        "fatalities": 170,
        "political": 70,
        "demonstrations": 3,
        "referencePeriod": "2026-08-01",
        "updatedAt": "2026-09-08T03:30:38.501Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}