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Khartoum state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in January 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 14 events of organized violence in Khartoum state, Sudan in January 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 208. UCDP counts 168 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2024 was 8 events.

Among the 17 months with a report for Khartoum state, Sudan, January 2025 has the 2nd highest count of events. Khartoum state, Sudan holds 16 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Sudan in January 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Sudan, January 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 the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Sudan has each event.

Table 1. Khartoum state, January 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (4 of 14 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
5 Jan 2025Khartoum district, Khartoum stateGovernment of Sudan; RSFState-based101010
5 Jan 2025Omdurman district, Khartoum stateGovernment of Sudan; RSFState-based212121
13 Jan 2025Omdurman district, Khartoum stateGovernment of Sudan; RSFState-based120120120
25 Jan 2025Bahri district, Khartoum stateGovernment of Sudan; CiviliansOne-sided181818

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Khartoum state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Sudan13207
RSF11184

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 Khartoum state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20261P4PCandidate Events
August 20263P2PCandidate Events
July 20261P10PCandidate Events
June 20261P0PCandidate Events
May 20264P12PCandidate Events
October 2025330GED
September 202511GED
May 2025213GED
April 20258255GED
March 202517242GED
February 20258113GED
January 202514208GED
December 20248128GED
November 2024885GED
October 2024867GED
September 202413158GED
August 20241479GED

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.

Khartoum state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Khartoum state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in January 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/sudan/khartoum-state/month/2025-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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