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electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-2b15304f

Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database | Africa (Cameroon official open data) 2,168 rows - 1 Africa country - 2001-2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon 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: Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-2b15304f.

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Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database | Africa (Cameroon official open data)

2,168 rows - 1 Africa country - 2001-2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon 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: Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database
—Publisher: Humanitarian Outcomes
—Resource: AWSD_CM_security_incidents.csv
—Format: CSV
—License: CC BY 4.0
—Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`CMR`	2,168	2001	2026	`Cameroon`

Indicators or Resource Contents

—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-incident-id-85b4ac29 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - incident id
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-month-00069a93 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - month
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-day-389da36a - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - day
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-un-cb2ba346 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - un
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-ingo-3f55f825 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - ingo
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-icrc-6577ed1f - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - icrc
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nrcs-and-ifrc-cab344f7 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nrcs and ifrc
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nngo-ccb080c9 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nngo
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-other-496eaae2 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - other
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nationals-killed-16173c08 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nationals killed
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nationals-wounded-877302d4 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nationals wounded
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nationals-kidnapped-3568cae2 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nationals kidnapped
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-nationals-detained-6dc40a08 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - nationals detained
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-total-nationals-0871d3f7 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - total nationals
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-internationals-killed-24706d60 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - internationals killed
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-internationals-wounded-e7150cd5 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - internationals wounded
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-internationals-kidnapped-9a1f51ea - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - internationals kidnapped
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-internationals-detained-e95989a2 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - internationals detained
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-total-internationals-80df53ab - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - total internationals
—cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-total-killed-30355202 - Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - total killed

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`indicator_id`	`string`	Stable indicator identifier.	`cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-incident-id-85b4ac29`
`indicator_name`	`string`	Human-readable indicator name.	`Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database - incident id`
`country_iso3`	`string`	ISO3 country code.	`CMR`
`country_name`	`string`	Country name.	`Cameroon`
`year`	`Int64`	Observation year.	`2001`
`value`	`float64`	Numeric observation value.	`147.0`
`unit`	`string`	Measurement unit, when available.	`source_units_unspecified`
`dimension_country_code`	`string`	Source dimension.	`CM`
`dimension_country`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Cameroon`
`dimension_region`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Centre`
`dimension_district`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Mfoundi`
`dimension_city`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Yaounde`
`dimension_means_of_attack`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Bodily assault`
`dimension_attack_context`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Ambush`
`dimension_location`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Road`
`dimension_motive`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Unknown`
`dimension_actor_type`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Unknown`
`dimension_actor_name`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Unknown`
`dimension_details`	`string`	Source dimension.	`1 IFRC international staff killed after being attacked and stabbed in th`
`dimension_verified`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Archived`
`dimension_source`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Archived`
`source_period_start_year`	`Int64`	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_period_end_year`	`Int64`	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_period_label`	`string`	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_provider`	`category`	Publishing organization.	`Humanitarian Outcomes`
`source_dataset`	`category`	Source package title.	`Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database`
`source_resource`	`category`	Source resource title.	`AWSD_CM_security_incidents.csv`
`source_package_id`	`category`	CKAN package UUID.	`2827fbe9-98d5-4ec4-83a2-cfaf5129c47c`
`source_resource_id`	`category`	CKAN resource UUID.	`3a595ea3-d5ca-43b0-b796-a2bce9088b16`
`source_url`	`category`	Original source resource URL.	`https://data.humdata.org/dataset/2827fbe9-98d5-4ec4-83a2-cfaf5129c47c/re`
`license_id`	`category`	Source license identifier.	`cc-by`
`retrieved_at`	`category`	UTC retrieval timestamp.	`2026-08-25T16:58:39Z`

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-2b15304f")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CMR"]

Work with indicators

python

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

bibtex

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_cameroon_cameroon_aid_worker_security_database_2b15304f_2026,
  title        = {Cameroon - Aid Worker Security Database | Africa (Cameroon official open data)},
  author       = {Humanitarian Outcomes},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/aid-worker-security-database-cmr},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-aid-worker-security-database-2b15304f}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) Humanitarian Outcomes. 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

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/2827fbe9-98d5-4ec4-83a2-cfaf5129c47c/resource/3a595ea3-d5ca-43b0-b796-a2bce9088b16/download/awsdcmsecurity_incidents.csv