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EGYPT, YEAR 2017: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 18 June 2018 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, November 2015b; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015a; Hala’ib triangle and Bir Tawil: UN Cartographic Section, March 2012; Occupied Palestinian Territory border status: UN Cartographic Sec- tion, January 2004; incident data: ACLED, June 2018; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 EGYPT, YEAR 2017: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 JUNE 2018 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Battles 236 209 812 Conflict incidents by category 2 Riots/protests 136 1 1 Development of conflict incidents from 2008 to 2017 2 Remote violence 126 49 275 Violence against civilians 63 48 477 Methodology 3 Strategic developments 29 1 1 Conflict incidents per province 4 Total 590 308 1566 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, June 2018). Localization of conflict incidents 4 Disclaimer 6 Development of conflict incidents from 2008 to 2017 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, June 2018). 2 EGYPT, YEAR 2017: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 JUNE 2018 Methodology an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event be fully excluded. Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected African and Asian countries, Egypt being among them. ACLED researchers collect Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, event type. non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, please see Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook; ACLED - ASIA, 2015 to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ context http://www.acleddata.com/wp- content/uploads/2015/07/ACLED_ to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact number Codebook_2015_ASIA-CR.pdf is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, etc.). For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook, 2017 http://www.acleddata.com/wp- content/uploads/2017/01/ACLED_ Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research Codebook_2017.pdf and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: User Guide, January 2017 It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. http://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ACLED_User- Guide_2017.pdf The two maps above serve to compare the number of reported fatalities (poten- tially containing estimates) to the number of events with reported fatalities. Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. ACLED’s location data is then used to locate incidents in these maps. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in which 3 EGYPT, YEAR 2017: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 JUNE 2018 Number of Conflict incidents per province Number of Number of Province incidents with incidents fatalities Number of fatalities Number of Number of Province incidents with Dumyat 4 2 2 incidents fatalities fatalities Janub Sina’ 7 3 5 Ad Daqahliyah 7 1 1 Kafr ash Shaykh 4 0 0 Al Bahr al Ahmar 2 1 3 Matrouh 6 2 20 Al Buhayrah 6 3 7 Qina 8 3 7 Al Fayyum 12 8 24 Shamal Sina’ 341 228 1194 Al Gharbiyah 13 3 34 Suhaj 4 2 11 Al Iskandariyah 20 4 24 Al Isma‘iliyah 6 4 30 Al Jizah 28 17 78 Localization of conflict incidents Al Minufiyah 4 0 0 Al Minya 11 1 29 Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Al Qahirah 57 11 25 type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among Al Qalyubiyah 7 3 8 the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be Al Uqsur 1 0 0 used if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names Al Wadi al Jadid 5 2 12 of event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names As Suways 6 0 0 are taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Ash Sharqiyah 6 3 15 Aswan 6 0 0 In Ad Daqahliyah, 7 incidents killing 1 person were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Al Mansurah, Batrah, Qalabshu. Asyut 12 6 36 Bani Suwayf 3 1 1 In Al Bahr al Ahmar, 2 incidents killing 3 people were reported. The following Bur Sa‘id 4 0 0 locations were among the affected: Hurghada, Marsa Alam. In Al Buhayrah, 6 incidents killing 7 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Damanhur, Wad an Natrun, Zawiyat Ghazal. 4 EGYPT, YEAR 2017: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 JUNE 2018 In Al Fayyum, 12 incidents killing 24 people were reported. The following In Al Qalyubiyah, 7 incidents killing 8 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Al Fayyum, Ibsheway, Sinnuris, Tamiyah, locations were among the affected: Al Khankah, Banha, El Obour City, Qalyub, Tunis. Shubra al Khaymah. In Al Gharbiyah, 13 incidents killing 34 people were reported. The following In Al Uqsur, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was locations were among the affected: Al Mahallah al Kubra, Tanta. among the affected: Tawd. In Al Iskandariyah, 20 incidents killing 24 people were reported. The following In Al Wadi al Jadid, 5 incidents killing 12 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ad Dukhaylah, Al Amiriyah, Al Attarin, Al locations were among the affected: Farafra Oasis, Kharga Oasis. Bitash, Al Mansheyah, Alexandria, Burj al-Arab, Sidi Beshr, Smouha, Souk Al Asafra. In As Suways, 6 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Adabiya, Suez. In Al Isma‘iliyah, 6 incidents killing 30 people were reported. The following In Ash Sharqiyah, 6 incidents killing 15 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Al Qantarah, Ismailia. locations were among the affected: 10th of Ramadan City, As Salheyah Al Gadidah, Minya al Qamh, Zagazig. In Al Jizah, 28 incidents killing 78 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: 6th October City, Al Ayyat, Al Haram, Al Jizah, Al In Aswan, 6 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were Warraq, Al-Badrashin, Ard El Lewa, Atfih, Bahariya Oasis, Dokki, Faysal, among the affected: Aswan, Kalabsha. Giza, Imbabah, Kirdasah, Oula. In Asyut, 12 incidents killing 36 people were reported. The following locations In Al Minufiyah, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following were among the affected: Abnub, Abu Tij, Al-Fath, Asyut, Dayrout, Manfalut, locations were among the affected: Shibin al Kawm, Tala. Sidfa. In Al Minya, 11 incidents killing 29 people were reported. The following locations In Bani Suwayf, 3 incidents killing 1 person were reported. The following were among the affected: Abu Qurqas, Kawm al Lufi, Maghaghah, Minya. locations were among the affected: Bani Suwayf, Saft al Khirsah. In Al Qahirah, 57 incidents killing 25 people were reported. The following In Bur Sa‘id, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location locations were among the affected: 15 May City, Ain Shams University, Al was among the affected: Port Said. Azbakeyah, Al Azhar Mosque, Al Maadi, Al Marj, American University, Az Zamalik, Cairo, Cairo International Airport, Halwan, Mansheya Nasir, Nasr In Dumyat, 4 incidents killing 2 people were reported. The following locations City, New Cairo City, Qasr Al-Nile, Talaat Harb Square. were among the affected: Damietta, Izbat Al Basartah. 5 EGYPT, YEAR 2017: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 18 JUNE 2018 In Janub Sina’, 7 incidents killing 5 people were reported. The following locations Sources were among the affected: Belayem, El-Tor, Saint Catherine, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Africa 1997-Present In Kafr ash Shaykh, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported.