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Liptako region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 7 events of organized violence in Liptako region, Burkina Faso in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 42. The low estimate is 32 and the high estimate is 47. UCDP counts 9 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 9 events.

UCDP recorded no events in December 2024. Among the 15 months with a report for Liptako region, Burkina Faso, December 2025 has the 4th highest count of events. Liptako region, Burkina Faso holds 11 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Burkina Faso in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 0 percent.

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

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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 each event of the month. The CSV file of Burkina Faso has each event.

Table 1. Liptako region, December 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
12 Dec 2025Séno province, Liptako regionGovernment of Burkina Faso; JNIMState-based222
16 Dec 2025Liptako regionGovernment of Burkina Faso; JNIMState-based15520
23 Dec 2025Liptako regionGovernment of Burkina Faso; JNIMState-based666
28 Dec 2025Séno province, Liptako regionIS; JNIMNon-state888
31 Dec 2025Oudalan province, Liptako regionIS; JNIMNon-state333
31 Dec 2025Séno province, Liptako regionGovernment of Burkina Faso; ISState-based222
31 Dec 2025Oudalan province, Liptako regionIS; CiviliansOne-sided666

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Liptako region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Burkina Faso425
IS419
JNIM534

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 3. Monthly reports of Liptako region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20261P12PCandidate Events
August 20266P63PCandidate Events
July 20265P26PCandidate Events
June 20264P3PCandidate Events
May 20266P0PCandidate Events
April 20262P0PCandidate Events
March 20265P7PCandidate Events
February 20261P0PCandidate Events
January 20265P9PCandidate Events
December 2025742GED
November 2025959GED
October 202547GED
September 2025261GED
August 2025935GED
July 20258116GED

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Liptako region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Liptako region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/burkina-faso/liptako-region/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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