EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Cameroon

NOT LIVE · CAMEROON RECORD RUNS 1 JAN 2024 31 MAY 2026

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 456 events of organised violence in Cameroon from published sources. Their best estimate is 977 people killed — and their own range runs 881–1,041, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE977

UCDP range 881–1,041. On 1of 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.

EVENTS456

438 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

State-based241 events · 594 killed (UCDP range 552–646)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state14 events · 40 killed (UCDP range 27–40)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided201 events · 343 killed (UCDP range 302–355)An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Cameroon: Ambazonia359
345–382 · 144 ev
JAS - Civilians182
169–184 · 103 ev
Cameroon: Government127
105–136 · 57 ev
Ambazonia insurgents - Civilians109
91–112 · 61 ev
Cameroon: Islamic State106
102–126 · 39 ev
IS - Civilians27
25–32 · 17 ev

The deadliest single event on record

8 APR 2024 · KOFIA ISLAND27 killed

UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 27 — the sources agree.

JAS - Civilians · one-sided violence — an armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

Cameroon, 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 Cameroon under the name “Cameroon”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.