EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Mozambique

NOT LIVE · MOZAMBIQUE RECORD RUNS 3 JAN 2024 27 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 27 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 404 events of organised violence in Mozambique from published sources. Their best estimate is 1,253 people killed — and their own range runs 923–1,691, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE1,253

UCDP range 923–1,691. On 2of 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.

EVENTS404

363 placed precisely enough to map; 41 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based105 events · 511 killed (UCDP range 340–736)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state20 events · 90 killed (UCDP range 57–121)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided279 events · 652 killed (UCDP range 526–834)An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Mozambique: Islamic State460
306–672 · 98 ev
Government of Mozambique - Civilians341
286–504 · 138 ev
IS - Civilians311
240–330 · 141 ev
IS - Naparama90
57–121 · 20 ev
Mozambique: Government51
34–64 · 7 ev

The deadliest single event on record

27 JUN 2025 · QUITERAJO VILLAGE37 killed

UCDP range 13–54. UCDP's own estimate spans 13 to 54; 37 is its best estimate, not a certainty.

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

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