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Conflict in Mali

NOT LIVE · MALI RECORD RUNS 2 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 2 Jan 2024 and 31 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 1,243 events of organised violence in Mali from published sources. Their best estimate is 4,916 people killed — and their own range runs 4,652–6,813, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

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What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE4,916

UCDP range 4,652–6,813. On 11of 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.

EVENTS1,243

979 placed precisely enough to map; 264 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based783 events · 2,961 killed (UCDP range 2,880–4,215) — A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state100 events · 560 killed (UCDP range 554–677) — Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided360 events · 1,395 killed (UCDP range 1,218–1,921) — An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Mali: Government2,331
2,276–3,253 · 639 ev
Government of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet661
555–1,056 · 206 ev
JNIM - Civilians406
374–465 · 76 ev
Mali: Islamic State400
388–553 · 88 ev
Dan na Ambassagou - JNIM267
267–281 · 30 ev
Mali: Government/Azawad230
216–409 · 56 ev

The deadliest single event on record

1 MAY 2026 · MALI-MAURITANIA BORDER150 killed

UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 150 — the sources agree.

Mali: Government · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.

Mali, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

Mali in the Atlas →Who fled →On the live Earth map →

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