EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Burkina Faso
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 31 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 1,262 events of organised violence in Burkina Faso from published sources. Their best estimate is 9,857 people killed — and their own range runs 9,123–13,506, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 9,123–13,506. On 27of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
942 placed precisely enough to map; 320 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
5,801–8,579 · 1,016 ev
1,361–2,339 · 124 ev
1,435–1,831 · 47 ev
186–337 · 30 ev
188–189 · 12 ev
145–216 · 32 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 127–570. UCDP's own estimate spans 127 to 570; 394 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
JNIM - Civilians · one-sided violence — an armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.
Burkina Faso, 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 Burkina Faso under the name “Burkina Faso”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.