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Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique: events and estimated deaths in October 2025

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UCDP recorded 14 events of organized violence in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique in October 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 33. The low estimate is 27 and the high estimate is 33. UCDP counts 25 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for September 2025 was 20 events.

The count for October 2024 was 10 events. The change from October 2024 to October 2025 is up 40 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, October 2025 has the 3rd highest count of events. Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique holds 93 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Mozambique in October 2025. In October 2024, the share was 37 percent.

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

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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 the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Mozambique has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 1. Cabo Delgado province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of October 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Mozambique512
IS1229

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 2. Monthly reports of Cabo Delgado province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202610P15PCandidate Events
August 20263P22PCandidate Events
July 20267P36PCandidate Events
June 20268P45PCandidate Events
May 202614P60PCandidate Events
April 20268P19PCandidate Events
March 20261P13PCandidate Events
February 20267P45PCandidate Events
January 20264P19PCandidate Events
December 2025611GED
November 20251368GED
October 20251433GED
September 20252068GED
August 20251437GED
July 20251554GED
June 20251375GED
May 2025756GED
April 202544GED
March 20251327GED
February 2025920GED
January 20251219GED
December 2024814GED
November 20241036GED
October 20241018GED
September 2024421GED
August 2024511GED

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Cabo Delgado province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique: events and estimated deaths in October 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/mozambique/cabo-delgado-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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