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Middle Shabelle region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in August 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Middle Shabelle region, Somalia in August 2025. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 4. UCDP counts 0 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2025 was 4 events.

The count for August 2024 was 3 events. The change from August 2024 to August 2025 is down 67 percent. Among the 24 months with a report for Middle Shabelle region, Somalia, August 2025 has the 22nd highest count of events. Middle Shabelle region, Somalia holds 3 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Somalia in August 2025. In August 2024, the share was 16 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Somalia, August 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 Shabelle region, August 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
13 Aug 2025Adan Yabal district, Middle Shabelle regionGovernment of Somalia; Al-ShabaabState-based444

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Middle Shabelle region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Al-Shabaab14
Government of Somalia14

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 Shabelle region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P23PCandidate Events
August 20267P17PCandidate Events
July 20268P62PCandidate Events
June 20265P53PCandidate Events
May 20264P11PCandidate Events
April 20262P33PCandidate Events
March 20265P3PCandidate Events
February 20263P24PCandidate Events
January 202610P631PCandidate Events
December 20259151GED
November 2025330GED
October 2025211GED
August 202514GED
July 2025415GED
June 2025656GED
May 2025662GED
April 2025888GED
March 202511195GED
February 20253166GED
December 2024257GED
November 2024127GED
October 2024127GED
September 2024215GED
August 2024312GED

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.

Middle Shabelle region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Middle Shabelle region, Somalia: events and estimated deaths in August 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/somalia/middle-shabelle-region/month/2025-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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