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Ménaka region, Mali: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 3 events of organized violence in Ménaka region, Mali in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 4. The low estimate is 4 and the high estimate is 5. UCDP counts 1 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 1 event.

The count for December 2024 was 2 events. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is up 50 percent. Among the 21 months with a report for Ménaka region, Mali, December 2025 has the 7th highest count of events. Ménaka region, Mali holds 8 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Mali in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 4 percent.

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

Table 1. Ménaka region, December 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
18 Dec 2025Andéramboukane cercle, Ménaka regionGovernment of Mali; ISState-based001
26 Dec 2025Ménaka cercle, Ménaka regionGovernment of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet Union); CiviliansOne-sided111
29 Dec 2025Ménaka cercle, Ménaka regionGovernment of Mali; ISState-based333

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Ménaka region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Mali23
Government of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet Union)11
IS23

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 Ménaka region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P22PCandidate Events
August 20262P0PCandidate Events
June 20262P9PCandidate Events
May 20262P15PCandidate Events
April 20264P0PCandidate Events
March 20264P8PCandidate Events
February 20261P1PCandidate Events
January 20267P49PCandidate Events
December 202534GED
November 202512GED
October 202553GED
September 202521GED
August 202511GED
July 202536GED
June 202528GED
May 202555GED
March 202522GED
January 202522GED
December 202420GED
November 202422GED
October 2024543GED

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.

Ménaka region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Ménaka region, Mali: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/mali/menaka-region/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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