EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Ethiopia
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 2,547 events of organised violence in Ethiopia from published sources. Their best estimate is 11,545 people killed — and their own range runs 8,800–37,236, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 8,800–37,236. On 17of 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.
1,566 placed precisely enough to map; 981 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
5,919–23,813 · 954 ev
445–1,591 · 678 ev
1,235–10,209 · 650 ev
344–517 · 116 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 18 ev
143–306 · 35 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 836–3,513. UCDP's own estimate spans 836 to 3,513; 836 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Ethiopia: Government/Amhara · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Ethiopia, 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 Ethiopia under the name “Ethiopia”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.