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Middle Juba region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Middle Juba region, Somalia in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 2. UCDP counts 0 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. UCDP recorded no events in November 2025.

The count for December 2024 was 1 event. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is level. Among the 13 months with a report for Middle Juba region, Somalia, December 2025 has the 9th highest count of events. Middle Juba region, Somalia holds 3 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Somalia in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 14 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Somalia, December 2025.

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. Middle Juba region, December 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
10 Dec 2025Jilib district, Middle Juba regionGovernment of Somalia; Al-ShabaabState-based222

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Middle Juba region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Al-Shabaab12
Government of Somalia12

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 Middle Juba region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P20PCandidate Events
August 20263P5PCandidate Events
June 20262P104PCandidate Events
May 20261P66PCandidate Events
April 20266P38PCandidate Events
March 20263P13PCandidate Events
February 20265P24PCandidate Events
January 20266P57PCandidate Events
December 202512GED
October 202537GED
September 202514GED
March 20251120GED
December 202412GED

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Middle Juba region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Middle Juba region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/somalia/middle-juba-region/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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