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
• 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

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

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

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_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

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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/awsd_cm_security_incidents.csv