Sirba region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in August 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through 31 Aug 2026

UCDP recorded 2 eventsP of organized violence in Sirba region, Burkina Faso in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 3P. The low estimate is 3 and the high estimate is 6P. UCDP counts 3P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2026 was 2 eventsP.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Burkina Faso, August 2026.

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 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8, with data through 31 Aug 2026. The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

Events

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

Table 1. Sirba region, August 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
Date	Place	Sides, as UCDP writes them	Type of violence	Estimated deathsP	Low	High
23 Aug 2026	Gnagna province, Sirba region	Government of Burkina Faso; JNIM	State-based	0	0	3
24 Aug 2026	Gnagna province, Sirba region	JNIM; Civilians	One-sided	3	3	3

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Sirba region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes it	Events	Estimated deaths in these events
Government of Burkina Faso	1P	0P
JNIM	2P	3P

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.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Sirba region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
Month	Events	Estimated deaths	Dataset
August 2026	2P	3P	Candidate Events
July 2026	2P	3P	Candidate Events
June 2026	3P	204P	Candidate Events
May 2026	5P	11P	Candidate Events
April 2026	3P	6P	Candidate Events
March 2026	2P	2P	Candidate Events
February 2026	4P	24P	Candidate Events
January 2026	5P	16P	Candidate Events
December 2025	15	44	GED
November 2025	3	3	GED
October 2025	3	23	GED
September 2025	2	8	GED
August 2025	2	100	GED
July 2025	6	23	GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Sirba region: all figures

Cite this page

ConflictStats. Sirba region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/burkina-faso/sirba-region/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through 31 Aug 2026.

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