EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Ghana
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 25 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 42 events of organised violence in Ghana from published sources. Their best estimate is 164 people killed — and their own range runs 131–177, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 131–177.
37 placed precisely enough to map; 5 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
72–117 · 29 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 3 ev
11–12 · 3 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 5 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 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 0–29. UCDP's own estimate spans 0 to 29; 29 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Kusasi - Mamprusi · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Ghana, 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 Ghana under the name “Ghana”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.