The African Lightning Injury Reports Database

Abstract:
The African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network, Inc. (ACLENet) has been collecting and reporting lightning injury and damage news reports in its monthly newsletter since 2018, posting each report by country and year on the website database for use by researchers. In six years, 898 reports have been posted covering 42 countries, making this the largest publicly available database on lightning injuries and damages for Africa. This paper discusses the history of the development of the database, sources, distribution of the reports, and illustrates how data can be summarized from any country using Angola as an example.