EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Benin
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 1 Jan 2024 and 7 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 66 events of organised violence in Benin from published sources. Their best estimate is 265 people killed — and their own range runs 251–344, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 251–344.
48 placed precisely enough to map; 18 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
232–319 · 58 ev
19–25 · 8 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 30–36. UCDP's own estimate spans 30 to 36; 34 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Benin: Government · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Benin, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Benin under the name “Benin”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.