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Tombouctou region, Mali: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 7 eventsP of organized violence in Tombouctou region, Mali in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 8P. The low estimate is 6 and the high estimate is 12P. UCDP counts 4P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 8 events.

The count for January 2025 was 16 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is down 56 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Tombouctou region, Mali, January 2026 has the 12th highest count of events. Tombouctou region, Mali holds 13 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Mali in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 31 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: Mali, January 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 .

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. Tombouctou region, January 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
6 Jan 2026Gourma-Rharous cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet Union); CiviliansOne-sided202
11 Jan 2026Niafunke cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali; JNIMState-based444
18 Jan 2026Goundam cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali; JNIMState-based001
18 Jan 2026Goundam cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali; JNIMState-based001
18 Jan 2026Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali; JNIMState-based001
18 Jan 2026Niafunke cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali; JNIMState-based001
26 Jan 2026Goundam cercle, Tombouctou regionGovernment of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet Union); CiviliansOne-sided222

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

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Tombouctou region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Mali5P4P
Government of Mali, Government of Russia (Soviet Union)2P4P
JNIM5P4P

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.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Tombouctou region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20267P15PCandidate Events
August 20269P14PCandidate Events
July 20269P14PCandidate Events
June 202610P21PCandidate Events
May 202614P20PCandidate Events
April 202612P8PCandidate Events
March 20263P4PCandidate Events
February 20264P3PCandidate Events
January 20267P8PCandidate Events
December 2025811GED
November 20251779GED
October 2025637GED
September 202520GED
August 202527GED
July 2025529GED
June 2025634GED
May 202543GED
April 202541GED
March 2025637GED
February 20251123GED
January 20251629GED
December 20241725GED
November 2024611GED
October 20241455GED
September 202436GED
August 202431GED

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.

Tombouctou region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Tombouctou region, Mali: events and estimated deaths in January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/mali/tombouctou-region/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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