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Sokoto state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in June 2026

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UCDP recorded 15 eventsP of organized violence in Sokoto state, Nigeria in June 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 62P. The low estimate is 61 and the high estimate is 73P. UCDP counts 46P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for May 2026 was 4 eventsP.

The count for June 2025 was 2 events. The change from June 2025 to June 2026 is up 650 percentP. Among the 19 months with a report for Sokoto state, Nigeria, June 2026 has the 2nd highest count of events. Sokoto state, Nigeria holds 9 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Nigeria in June 2026. In June 2025, the share was 3 percent.

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

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

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Events

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

Table 1. Sokoto state, June 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 15 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
2 Jun 2026Tureta lga, Sokoto stateActor not identified by UCDP; CiviliansOne-sided202020

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

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Sokoto state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of June 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP13P58P
Group named for a person (name not shown)2P4P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Sokoto state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20269P35PCandidate Events
August 202614P91PCandidate Events
July 202619P59PCandidate Events
June 202615P62PCandidate Events
May 20264P29PCandidate Events
April 202610P29PCandidate Events
March 20267P15PCandidate Events
February 20264P11PCandidate Events
January 20267P39PCandidate Events
December 20254145GED
November 202527GED
October 202513GED
September 202534GED
August 202545GED
July 202523GED
June 2025213GED
May 2025219GED
April 2025418GED
January 202512GED

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.

Sokoto state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Sokoto state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in June 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/sokoto-state/month/2026-06/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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