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Sud Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

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UCDP recorded 62 events of organized violence in Sud Kivu province, DR Congo in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 426. The low estimate is 290 and the high estimate is 1,827. UCDP counts 326 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 23 events.

The count for December 2024 was 4 events. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is up 1450 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Sud Kivu province, DR Congo, December 2025 has the highest count of events. Sud Kivu province, DR Congo holds 71 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in DR Congo in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 5 percent.

The report of the country for this month: DR Congo, December 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. Sud Kivu province, December 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (7 of 62 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
1 Dec 2025Uvira territory, Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based161616
2 Dec 2025Walungu territory, Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based101010
2 Dec 2025Walungu territory, Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based111111
2 Dec 2025Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based2371070
7 Dec 2025Uvira territory, Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based202020
10 Dec 2025Uvira territory, Sud Kivu provinceGovernment of DR Congo (Zaire); AFCState-based222222
11 Dec 2025Uvira territory, Sud Kivu provinceAFC; VDPNon-state202020

In a few events, the high estimate of UCDP is lower than the best estimate, or the low estimate is higher. The site shows the figures as UCDP publishes them.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Sud Kivu province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
AFC61425
Government of DR Congo (Zaire)56402
VDP624

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 Sud Kivu province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202613P27PCandidate Events
August 202618P58PCandidate Events
July 202622P91PCandidate Events
June 202617P55PCandidate Events
May 202618P131PCandidate Events
April 202612P102PCandidate Events
March 202617P91PCandidate Events
February 20267P31PCandidate Events
January 202610P75PCandidate Events
December 202562426GED
November 20252366GED
October 2025117GED
September 2025110GED
August 20251954GED
July 2025939GED
June 20252476GED
May 2025533GED
April 20251735GED
March 202533109GED
February 202517111GED
January 202513521GED
December 2024437GED
November 202446GED
October 2024732GED
September 2024624GED
August 202434GED

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. Sud Kivu province, DR Congo: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/dr-congo/sud-kivu-province/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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