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Ituri province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in April 2026

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UCDP recorded 19 eventsP of organized violence in Ituri province, DR Congo in April 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 207P. The low estimate is 188 and the high estimate is 267P. UCDP counts 143P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for March 2026 was 14 eventsP.

The count for April 2025 was 10 events. The change from April 2025 to April 2026 is up 90 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Ituri province, DR Congo, April 2026 has the 9th highest count of events. Ituri province, DR Congo holds 40 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in DR Congo in April 2026. In April 2025, the share was 16 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: DR Congo, 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 .

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Events

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

Table 1. Ituri province, April 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (4 of 19 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
1 Apr 2026Mambasa territory, Ituri provinceIS; CiviliansOne-sided434371
9 Apr 2026Djugu territory, Ituri provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); CRPState-based232323
28 Apr 2026Djugu territory, Ituri provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); CRPState-based161016
28 Apr 2026Djugu territory, Ituri provinceURDPC; CiviliansOne-sided6969101

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. Ituri province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of April 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
CRP10P78P
Government of DR Congo (Zaire)12P86P
IS6P56P
URDPC3P73P

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 Ituri province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20268P26PCandidate Events
August 202616P90PCandidate Events
July 202613P82PCandidate Events
June 20266P13PCandidate Events
May 202627P256PCandidate Events
April 202619P207PCandidate Events
March 202614P131PCandidate Events
February 20266P14PCandidate Events
January 202611P80PCandidate Events
December 2025617GED
November 2025521GED
October 20252051GED
September 20251853GED
August 202525126GED
July 202524177GED
June 20251366GED
May 20251244GED
April 20251038GED
March 20251891GED
February 202529234GED
January 202526203GED
December 20242565GED
November 2024726GED
October 20241836GED
September 202442146GED
August 20241747GED

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.

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ConflictStats. Ituri province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in April 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/dr-congo/ituri-province/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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