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Nord Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in October 2025

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UCDP recorded 49 events of organized violence in Nord Kivu province, DR Congo in October 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 194. The low estimate is 161 and the high estimate is 326. UCDP counts 156 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for September 2025 was 39 events.

The count for October 2024 was 32 events. The change from October 2024 to October 2025 is up 53 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Nord Kivu province, DR Congo, October 2025 has the 2nd highest count of events. Nord Kivu province, DR Congo holds 58 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in DR Congo in October 2025. In October 2024, the share was 52 percent.

The report of the country for this month: DR Congo, October 2025.

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 DR Congo has each event.

Table 1. Nord Kivu province, October 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (6 of 49 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
6 Oct 2025Rutshuru territory, Nord Kivu provinceAFC; CiviliansOne-sided191919
10 Oct 2025Walikale territory, Nord Kivu provinceAFC; VDPNon-state161616
12 Oct 2025Rutshuru territory, Nord Kivu provinceAFC; CiviliansOne-sided20020
12 Oct 2025Lubero territory, Nord Kivu provinceIS; CiviliansOne-sided191930
28 Oct 2025Lubero territory, Nord Kivu provinceIS; CiviliansOne-sided101010
30 Oct 2025Lubero territory, Nord Kivu provinceIS; CiviliansOne-sided171717

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 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
AFC32108
Government of DR Congo (Zaire)127
IS1677
VDP2271

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

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. Nord Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in October 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/dr-congo/nord-kivu-province/month/2025-10/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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