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Goulmou region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in August 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 13 events of organized violence in Goulmou region, Burkina Faso in August 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 29. The low estimate is 29 and the high estimate is 42. UCDP counts 7 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2025 was 10 events.

Among the 15 months with a report for Goulmou region, Burkina Faso, August 2025 has the highest count of events. Goulmou region, Burkina Faso holds 27 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Burkina Faso in August 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Burkina Faso, August 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Burkina Faso has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 1. Goulmou region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Burkina Faso1124
JNIM1329

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Goulmou region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P0PCandidate Events
August 20261P4PCandidate Events
July 20262P1PCandidate Events
June 20260P0PCandidate Events
May 20265P12PCandidate Events
April 202610P82PCandidate Events
March 20266P45PCandidate Events
February 20266P66PCandidate Events
January 20265P30PCandidate Events
December 2025617GED
November 2025921GED
October 2025323GED
September 202539GED
August 20251329GED
July 20251086GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Goulmou region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Goulmou region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in August 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/burkina-faso/goulmou-region/month/2025-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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