EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Burundi
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 17 Jan 2024 and 28 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 109 events of organised violence in Burundi from published sources. Their best estimate is 149 people killed — and their own range runs 133–163, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 133–163.
107 placed precisely enough to map; 2 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
115–130 · 102 ev
16–19 · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
0–1 · 1 ev
0–9 · 2 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 16–19. UCDP's own estimate spans 16 to 19; 19 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Burundi: Government · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Burundi, 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 Burundi under the name “Burundi”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.