EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Niger
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 5 Jan 2024 and 25 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 302 events of organised violence in Niger from published sources. Their best estimate is 2,916 people killed — and their own range runs 2,661–3,665, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 2,661–3,665. 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.
275 placed precisely enough to map; 27 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
1,065–1,692 · 107 ev
644–882 · 66 ev
639–696 · 74 ev
49–50 · 9 ev
48–55 · 5 ev
43–52 · 7 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 36–174. UCDP's own estimate spans 36 to 174; 119 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Niger: Islamic State · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Niger, 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 Niger under the name “Niger”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.