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Nord Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in October 2024

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UCDP recorded 32 events of organized violence in Nord Kivu province, DR Congo in October 2024. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 163. The low estimate is 155 and the high estimate is 297. UCDP counts 111 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for September 2024 was 25 events.

Among the 26 months with a report for Nord Kivu province, DR Congo, October 2024 has the 13th highest count of events. Nord Kivu province, DR Congo holds 52 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in DR Congo in October 2024.

The report of the country for this month: DR Congo, October 2024.

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. Nord Kivu province, October 2024: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (5 of 32 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
20 Oct 2024Walikale territory, Nord Kivu provinceGovernment of Rwanda; FDLR-FOCAState-based10310
20 Oct 2024Walikale territory, Nord Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based232323
20 Oct 2024Lubero territory, Nord Kivu provinceIS; CiviliansOne-sided272727
23 Oct 2024Walikale territory, Nord Kivu provinceGovernment of Rwanda; FDLR-FOCAState-based343434
28 Oct 2024Rutshuru territory, Nord Kivu provinceAFC; CiviliansOne-sided151515

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Nord Kivu province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of October 2024, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
AFC2081
FDLR-FOCA244
Government of DR Congo (Zaire)1031
Government of Rwanda244
IS734
VDP823

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 Nord Kivu province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202618P56PCandidate Events
August 202613P20PCandidate Events
July 202629P102PCandidate Events
June 202631P195PCandidate Events
May 202638P129PCandidate Events
April 202614P69PCandidate Events
March 202611P37PCandidate Events
February 202619P86PCandidate Events
January 202629P256PCandidate Events
December 20251664GED
November 202545302GED
October 202549194GED
September 202539203GED
August 202534161GED
July 202537426GED
June 20252593GED
May 202549373GED
April 202535169GED
March 202548266GED
February 202532147GED
January 20251183,467GED
December 202444150GED
November 20242297GED
October 202432163GED
September 202425100GED
August 202434124GED

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Nord Kivu province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Nord Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in October 2024. https://conflictstats.com/country/dr-congo/nord-kivu-province/month/2024-10/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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