EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Rwanda

NOT LIVE · RWANDA RECORD RUNS 16 JAN 2024 → 27 JAN 2025

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 16 Jan 2024 and 27 Jan 2025, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 4 events of organised violence in Rwanda from published sources. Their best estimate is 7 people killed — and their own range runs 7–22, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

See these events on the map →The whole record →

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE7

UCDP range 7–22.

EVENTS4

4 placed precisely enough to map.

Who was doing the killing

State-based3 events · 7 killed (UCDP range 7–17) — A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.

One-sided1 event · 0 killed (UCDP range 0–5) — An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

DR Congo (Zaire): Government7
7–17 · 3 ev

Government of Rwanda - Civilians0
0–5 · 1 ev

The deadliest single event on record

27 JAN 2025 · GISENYI TOWN5 killed

UCDP range 5–15. UCDP's own estimate spans 5 to 15; 5 is its best estimate, not a certainty.

DR Congo (Zaire): Government · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.

Rwanda, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

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