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Diffa region, Niger: events and estimated deaths in October 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 3 events of organized violence in Diffa region, Niger in October 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 11. The low estimate is 5 and the high estimate is 12. UCDP counts 9 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for September 2025 was 3 events.

The count for October 2024 was 1 event. The change from October 2024 to October 2025 is up 200 percent. Among the 22 months with a report for Diffa region, Niger, October 2025 has the highest count of events. Diffa region, Niger holds 38 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Niger in October 2025. In October 2024, the share was 25 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Niger, October 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 Niger has each event.

Table 1. Diffa region, October 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
11 Oct 2025Diffa department, Diffa regionIS; CiviliansOne-sided555
16 Oct 2025Diffa regionIS; CiviliansOne-sided001
28 Oct 2025Diffa regionGovernment of Niger; CiviliansOne-sided606

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Diffa region: 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 Niger16
IS25

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 Diffa region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
August 20262P9PCandidate Events
July 20261P19PCandidate Events
June 20262P1PCandidate Events
April 20263P5PCandidate Events
March 20261P1PCandidate Events
February 20263P12PCandidate Events
January 20261P5PCandidate Events
November 202512GED
October 2025311GED
September 202535GED
August 2025312GED
July 2025140GED
June 202521GED
May 202528GED
April 202523GED
March 202528GED
February 202512GED
January 202511GED
December 2024218GED
October 202412GED
September 2024313GED
August 202429GED

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Diffa region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Diffa region, Niger: events and estimated deaths in October 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/niger/diffa-region/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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