electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-conflict-incidents-affecting-children-and-children-related-50fac6a4

Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Incident Data | Africa (Mali official open data)

4,381 rows - 1 Africa country - 2024-2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Mali as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Incident Data
• Publisher: Insecurity Insight
• Resource: 2016-2026 Children in Armed Conflict Incident Data.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY-SA
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	4,381	2024	2026	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• conflict-incidents-affecting-children-and-children-related-services-inci-2c4f0551 - Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Incident Data

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	conflict-incidents-affecting-children-and-children-related-services-inci
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Inci
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MLI
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country name.	Mali
year	Int64	Observation year.	2026
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	135029.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_date	string	Source dimension.	2026-07-20 00:00:00
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	OPT
dimension_country_iso	string	Source dimension.	PSE
dimension_admin_1	string	Source dimension.	Gaza Strip
dimension_geo_precision	string	Source dimension.	censored
dimension_reported_perpetrator	string	Source dimension.	Government: Military
dimension_name_of_the_party	string	Source dimension.	Israeli Defence Forces
dimension_incident_type	string	Source dimension.	Minor Killed or Maimed
dimension_date_event_entered	string	Source dimension.	2026-07-27 00:00:00
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2016
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2016-2026
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Insecurity Insight
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Inci
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	2016-2026 Children in Armed Conflict Incident Data.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	b50fd91e-5472-4952-b864-0f49d5828584
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	b99de60a-7b2b-4847-8104-66da2b5e8aa6
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b50fd91e-5472-4952-b864-0f49d5828584/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by-sa
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-12T23:12:09Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-conflict-incidents-affecting-children-and-children-related-50fac6a4")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mali_conflict_incidents_affecting_children_and_children_related_50fac6a4_2026,
  title        = {Conflict Incidents Affecting Children and Children-Related Services Incident Data | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {Insecurity Insight},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/children-in-armed-conflict-data},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-conflict-incidents-affecting-children-and-children-related-50fac6a4}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) Insecurity Insight. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b50fd91e-5472-4952-b864-0f49d5828584/resource/b99de60a-7b2b-4847-8104-66da2b5e8aa6/download/2016-2026-children-in-armed-conflict-incident-data.xlsx