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Borno state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in August 2024

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 16 events of organized violence in Borno state, Nigeria in August 2024. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 288. The low estimate is 50 and the high estimate is 313. UCDP counts 6 of these deaths as deaths of civilians.

Among the 26 months with a report for Borno state, Nigeria, August 2024 has the 23rd highest count of events. Borno state, Nigeria holds 53 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Nigeria in August 2024.

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

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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All months

Table 1. Monthly reports of Borno state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202610P82PCandidate Events
August 202622P170PCandidate Events
July 202617P88PCandidate Events
June 202624P128PCandidate Events
May 202631P410PCandidate Events
April 202636P337PCandidate Events
March 202640P476PCandidate Events
February 202622P81PCandidate Events
January 202648P368PCandidate Events
December 202532114GED
November 202528307GED
October 202521179GED
September 202532216GED
August 202525117GED
July 20253587GED
June 202523168GED
May 202534371GED
April 202523114GED
March 202527144GED
February 20251699GED
January 202529353GED
December 2024880GED
November 202424153GED
October 202423208GED
September 20241785GED
August 202416288GED

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.

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ConflictStats. Borno state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in August 2024. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/borno-state/month/2024-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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