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Taraba state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in August 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 2 eventsP of organized violence in Taraba state, Nigeria in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 6P. The low estimate is 4 and the high estimate is 6P. UCDP counts 0P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2026 was 2 eventsP.

The count for August 2025 was 1 event. The change from August 2025 to August 2026 is up 100 percentP. Among the 13 months with a report for Taraba state, Nigeria, August 2026 has the 4th highest count of events. Taraba state, Nigeria holds 1 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Nigeria in August 2026. In August 2025, the share was 1 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: Nigeria, August 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 each event of the month. The CSV file of Nigeria has each event.

Table 1. Taraba state, August 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
11 Aug 2026Wukari lga, Taraba stateJukun; TivNon-state202
12 Aug 2026Wukari lga, Taraba stateJukun; TivNon-state444

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

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Taraba state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Jukun2P6P
Tiv2P6P

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.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Taraba state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20262P8PCandidate Events
August 20262P6PCandidate Events
July 20262P2PCandidate Events
June 20261P5PCandidate Events
May 20263P7PCandidate Events
March 20261P6PCandidate Events
February 20261P27PCandidate Events
January 20263P12PCandidate Events
December 2025117GED
August 202514GED
June 202511GED
May 2025456GED
April 202512GED

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Taraba state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Taraba state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/taraba-state/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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