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Lower Shabelle region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in September 2024

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Lower Shabelle region, Somalia in September 2024. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 3. UCDP counts 3 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for August 2024 was 2 events.

Among the 24 months with a report for Lower Shabelle region, Somalia, September 2024 has the 22nd highest count of events. Lower Shabelle region, Somalia holds 7 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Somalia in September 2024.

The report of the country for this month: Somalia, 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 .

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 Somalia has each event.

Table 1. Lower Shabelle region, September 2024: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
28 Sep 2024Lower Shabelle regionGovernment of Somalia; Al-ShabaabState-based333

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Lower Shabelle region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of September 2024, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Al-Shabaab13
Government of Somalia13

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 Lower Shabelle region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20264P4PCandidate Events
August 202611P15PCandidate Events
July 202612P73PCandidate Events
June 202611P159PCandidate Events
May 20265P142PCandidate Events
April 20268P54PCandidate Events
March 20267P73PCandidate Events
February 20266P25PCandidate Events
January 202610P44PCandidate Events
December 2025744GED
November 2025656GED
October 20251127GED
September 2025714GED
August 202513252GED
July 2025526GED
June 2025971GED
May 202536GED
April 2025233GED
March 20259179GED
December 202419GED
November 2024316GED
October 202412GED
September 202413GED
August 202426GED

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.

Lower Shabelle region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Lower Shabelle region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in September 2024. https://conflictstats.com/country/somalia/lower-shabelle-region/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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