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Benue state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in September 2024

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 2 events of organized violence in Benue state, Nigeria in September 2024. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 9. UCDP counts 7 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for August 2024 was 3 events.

Among the 26 months with a report for Benue state, Nigeria, September 2024 has the 23rd highest count of events. Benue state, Nigeria holds 5 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Nigeria in September 2024.

The report of the country for this month: Nigeria, September 2024.

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 Nigeria has each event.

Table 1. Benue state, September 2024: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
10 Sep 2024Gwer West lga, Benue stateFulani; TivNon-state777
10 Sep 2024Kwande lga, Benue stateFulani; TivNon-state222

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Benue state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of September 2024, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Fulani29
Tiv29

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 Benue state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20264P4PCandidate Events
August 20267P23PCandidate Events
July 202619P73PCandidate Events
June 20269P15PCandidate Events
May 20266P19PCandidate Events
April 202613P66PCandidate Events
March 202614P47PCandidate Events
February 202616P61PCandidate Events
January 202623P50PCandidate Events
December 202548GED
November 202536GED
October 202523GED
September 2025514GED
August 20251634GED
July 202557GED
June 20259203GED
May 20251593GED
April 202512113GED
March 2025422GED
February 2025634GED
January 202512GED
December 2024224GED
November 2024631GED
October 2024427GED
September 202429GED
August 2024381GED

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.

Benue state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Benue state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in September 2024. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/benue-state/month/2024-09/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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