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L'Artibonite department, Haiti: events and estimated deaths in May 2026

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UCDP recorded 6 eventsP of organized violence in L'Artibonite department, Haiti in May 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 29P. The low estimate is 27 and the high estimate is 29P. UCDP counts 6P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2026 was 1 eventP.

The count for May 2025 was 4 events. The change from May 2025 to May 2026 is up 50 percentP. Among the 21 months with a report for L'Artibonite department, Haiti, May 2026 has the highest count of events. L'Artibonite department, Haiti holds 35 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Haiti in May 2026. In May 2025, the share was 27 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: Haiti, May 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 each event of the month. The CSV file of Haiti has each event.

Table 1. L'Artibonite department, May 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
8 May 2026Saint-Marc arrondissement, L'Artibonite departmentGran Grif, Kokorat sans ras; CiviliansOne-sided666
8 May 2026Dessalines arrondissement, L'Artibonite departmentActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPNon-state222
13 May 2026Gonaïves arrondissement, L'Artibonite departmentGovernment of Haiti; Kokorat sans rasState-based121212
20 May 2026Gonaïves arrondissement, L'Artibonite departmentGovernment of Haiti; Kokorat sans rasState-based323
24 May 2026Gonaïves arrondissement, L'Artibonite departmentGovernment of Haiti; Kokorat sans rasState-based333
27 May 2026L'Artibonite departmentGovernment of Haiti; Kokorat sans rasState-based323

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

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. L'Artibonite department: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP1P2P
Government of Haiti4P21P
Gran Grif, Kokorat sans ras1P6P
Kokorat sans ras4P21P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of L'Artibonite department, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P13PCandidate Events
August 20261P1PCandidate Events
May 20266P29PCandidate Events
April 20261P5PCandidate Events
March 20261P56PCandidate Events
January 20262P1PCandidate Events
December 202527GED
November 2025234GED
October 2025323GED
September 202523GED
August 202528GED
July 202517GED
June 202512GED
May 2025462GED
April 20253116GED
March 202516GED
January 2025313GED
December 20242109GED
November 202424GED
October 20242101GED
August 202416GED

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L'Artibonite department: all figures

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ConflictStats. L'Artibonite department, Haiti: events and estimated deaths in May 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/haiti/l-artibonite-department/month/2026-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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