electricsheepafrica/africa-unsom-sgrpoliticalevents

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tags:
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- humanitarian
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- electric-sheep-africa
- complex-emergency-conflict-security
- peacekeeping
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pretty_name: "Peace and Security Pillar: Political Events in Somalia, Data From Secretary General Reports"
dataset_info:
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num_examples: 375
- name: test
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# Peace and Security Pillar: Political Events in Somalia, Data From Secretary General Reports

**Publisher:** United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unsom-sgrpoliticalevents) · **License:** `cc-by-igo` · **Updated:** 2026-04-09

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## Abstract

This dataset was last updated in April 2023 and will no longer receive updates. Historical data remains available for reference.

This dataset is an extraction of information from the Secretary General's Report on the situation in Somalia (SG reports) since 2013. It provides a chronology of major political events in the country to reflect its political situation.

Each row in this dataset represents discrete events or incidents. Temporal coverage is indicated by the `event_start_date`, `last_update` column(s). Geographic scope: **SOM**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Conflict and security |
| **Unit of observation** | Discrete events or incidents |
| **Rows (total)** | 469 |
| **Columns** | 11 (2 numeric, 7 categorical, 2 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 375 rows |
| **Test split** | 93 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | SOM |
| **Publisher** | United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-04-09 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `country_or_area` (range 706.0–706.0).

**Temporal** — `event_start_date`, `event_end_date` (range 1371168000000.0–1675728000000.0), `last_update`.

**Identifier / Metadata** — `id` (Somalia), `m49_code` (SOM), `event_id` (S/2013/0521-POL-001, S/2020/0798-POL-019, S/2021/0154-POL-011), `source` (S/2022/392, S/2023/109, S/2019/661), `esa_source` (HDX) and 1 others.

**Other** — `narratives` (Hirshabelle and Jubbaland States faced challenges in completing the House of the People elections, in particular in the second voting locations of Beledweyne and Garbahaarrey. In Hirshabelle, the President, Ali Abdullahi Hussein “Gudlawe” engaged with various clan elders, militia leaders and politicians in Beledweyne to defuse tensions between his administration and the Hawadle clan on the elections and broader power-sharing disputes. President Gudlawe and Hawadle leaders reportedly reached an informal understanding on 8 February to focus on the elections, which subsequently started on 20 February., The Peace and Security Council, at its 1068th meeting on 8 March, further authorized ATMIS to replace AMISOM, effective 1 April., The main political goal of the period leading up to 2016, and a core requirement for long-term peace in Somalia, is to define the exact model of federalism in Somalia including the nature and role of government at the federal and regional state levels. In the reporting period, the Federal Government of Somalia and the Federal Parliament continued to take forward dialogue with existing regional administrations, as well as establishing some of the commissions required by the Provisional Constitution. However, continued disputes between the Federal Government and regional authorities in “Jubaland”, Puntland and “Somaliland” underlined the vast scale of the task ahead.

On 16 June, the Constitutional Oversight Committee of the Federal Parliament formally launched the constitutional review process. The Committee expressed its commitment to a broad dialogue that would involve civil society and the Somali public throughout the country. A law establishing the Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission was adopted on 3 July. The selection of Commissioners is under way.).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-unsom-sgrpoliticalevents")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()
```

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## Schema

| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `id` | object | 0.0% | Somalia |
| `country_or_area` | float64 | 0.0% | 706.0 – 706.0 (mean 706.0) |
| `m49_code` | object | 0.0% | SOM |
| `event_id` | object | 0.0% | S/2013/0521-POL-001, S/2020/0798-POL-019, S/2021/0154-POL-011 |
| `event_start_date` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `event_end_date` | float64 | 79.7% | 1371168000000.0 – 1675728000000.0 (mean 1535913701052.6316) |
| `narratives` | object | 0.0% | Hirshabelle and Jubbaland States faced challenges in completing the House of the People elections, in particular in the second voting locations of Beledweyne and Garbahaarrey. In Hirshabelle, the President, Ali Abdullahi Hussein “Gudlawe” engaged with various clan elders, militia leaders and politicians in Beledweyne to defuse tensions between his administration and the Hawadle clan on the elections and broader power-sharing disputes. President Gudlawe and Hawadle leaders reportedly reached an informal understanding on 8 February to focus on the elections, which subsequently started on 20 February., The Peace and Security Council, at its 1068th meeting on 8 March, further authorized ATMIS to replace AMISOM, effective 1 April., The main political goal of the period leading up to 2016, and a core requirement for long-term peace in Somalia, is to define the exact model of federalism in Somalia including the nature and role of government at the federal and regional state levels. In the reporting period, the Federal Government of Somalia and the Federal Parliament continued to take forward dialogue with existing regional administrations, as well as establishing some of the commissions required by the Provisional Constitution. However, continued disputes between the Federal Government and regional authorities in “Jubaland”, Puntland and “Somaliland” underlined the vast scale of the task ahead.

On 16 June, the Constitutional Oversight Committee of the Federal Parliament formally launched the constitutional review process. The Committee expressed its commitment to a broad dialogue that would involve civil society and the Somali public throughout the country. A law establishing the Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission was adopted on 3 July. The selection of Commissioners is under way. |
| `source` | object | 0.0% | S/2022/392, S/2023/109, S/2019/661 |
| `last_update` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-09 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `country_or_area` | 706.0 | 706.0 | 706.0 | 706.0 |
| `event_end_date` | 1371168000000.0 | 1675728000000.0 | 1535913701052.6316 | 1544659200000.0 |

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## Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (`N/A`, `null`, `none`, `-`, `unknown`, `no data`, `#N/A`) were unified to `NaN`. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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## Limitations

- Data originates from United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub and has not been independently validated by ESA.
- Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
- The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: `event_end_date`.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unsom-sgrpoliticalevents) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_unsom_sgrpoliticalevents,
title = {Peace and Security Pillar: Political Events in Somalia, Data From Secretary General Reports},
author = {United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unsom-sgrpoliticalevents},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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