In February 2024, ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project – one of the most widely used conflict data providers in the field of COI – introduced ‘conflict exposure’ as a new measure.

You can now choose among several referencing styles in our "cite as" feature.

Both US Department of State and Amnesty International released their annual reports on human rights, covering 2023.

Extended country pages are now available for all countries of priority "A".

ACCORD will publish a revised edition of the training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information”, updating the 2013 edition. Register for its online launch event on 14 March.

We published a new feeatured topic on Syria (in German language).

ACCORD published a COI compilation on Guinea, commissioned by UNHCR.

We are pleased to introduce an improvement to the search form on ecoi.net, allowing you to speficy your search more easily.

In September 2023, we updated our country priorities. These priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The update is based on Austrian, European and global asylum statistics and affects what sources we cover for what countries.

The Syria and Somalia country pages have been extended.