EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Chad

NOT LIVE · CHAD RECORD RUNS 6 JAN 2024 8 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 6 Jan 2024 and 8 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 59 events of organised violence in Chad from published sources. Their best estimate is 519 people killed — and their own range runs 475–563, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE519

UCDP range 475–563.

EVENTS59

47 placed precisely enough to map; 12 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based16 events · 184 killed (UCDP range 169–205)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state32 events · 295 killed (UCDP range 282–305)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided11 events · 40 killed (UCDP range 24–53)An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Nigeria: Government147
132–168 · 12 ev
Farmers (Chad) - Herders (Chad)95
83–95 · 23 ev
Fulani - Ngambay69
68–70 · 3 ev
Tama - Zaghawa45
45–54 · 2 ev
Birgid - Kibete42
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
JAS - Civilians38
22–38 · 7 ev

The deadliest single event on record

17 MAR 2024 · DJOURF AL AHMAR DEPARTMENT42 killed

UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 42 — the sources agree.

Birgid - Kibete · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.

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