EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Kenya

NOT LIVE · KENYA RECORD RUNS 3 JAN 2024 25 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 3 Jan 2024 and 25 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 82 events of organised violence in Kenya from published sources. Their best estimate is 223 people killed — and their own range runs 204–301, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE223

UCDP range 204–301.

EVENTS82

65 placed precisely enough to map; 17 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based57 events · 125 killed (UCDP range 108–198)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state12 events · 68 killed (UCDP range 66–73)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided13 events · 30 killedAn armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Kenya: Northeastern Province and Coast99
95–172 · 50 ev
Dassanetch - Turkana26
24–29 · 4 ev
Al-Shabaab - Civilians18
UCDP low and high agree · 8 ev
Anuak - Nuer18
UCDP low and high agree · 3 ev
Orma, Wardei - Pokomo17
17–19 · 4 ev
Somalia: Government14
1–14 · 2 ev

The deadliest single event on record

22 FEB 2025 · TODONYANG VILLAGE20 killed

UCDP range 20–22. UCDP's own estimate spans 20 to 22; 20 is its best estimate, not a certainty.

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

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