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Yaadga region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in April 2026

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

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UCDP recorded 15 eventsP of organized violence in Yaadga region, Burkina Faso in April 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 24P. The low estimate is 23 and the high estimate is 45P. UCDP counts 3P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for March 2026 was 12 eventsP.

UCDP recorded no events in April 2025. Among the 15 months with a report for Yaadga region, Burkina Faso, April 2026 has the 2nd highest count of events. Yaadga region, Burkina Faso holds 21 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Burkina Faso in April 2026. In April 2025, the share was 0 percent.

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

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

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.

Table 1. Yaadga region, April 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 15 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
29 Apr 2026Passoré province, Yaadga regionGovernment of Burkina Faso; JNIMState-based121112

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. Yaadga region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of April 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Burkina Faso15P24P
JNIM15P24P

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 Yaadga region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20266P6PCandidate Events
August 202610P11PCandidate Events
July 20269P55PCandidate Events
June 20266P8PCandidate Events
May 202613P33PCandidate Events
April 202615P24PCandidate Events
March 202612P9PCandidate Events
February 202610P147PCandidate Events
January 202616P31PCandidate Events
December 202575GED
November 2025924GED
October 2025425GED
September 2025459GED
August 2025666GED
July 2025621GED

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.

Yaadga region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Yaadga region, Burkina Faso: events and estimated deaths in April 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/burkina-faso/yaadga-region/month/2026-04/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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