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West Kordofan state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in July 2025

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UCDP recorded 12 events of organized violence in West Kordofan state, Sudan in July 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 156. The low estimate is 149 and the high estimate is 167. UCDP counts 103 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for June 2025 was 13 events.

Among the 25 months with a report for West Kordofan state, Sudan, July 2025 has the 5th highest count of events. West Kordofan state, Sudan holds 36 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Sudan in July 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Sudan, July 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. West Kordofan state, July 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (5 of 12 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
13 Jul 2025El Salam district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based161616
13 Jul 2025El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based272727
23 Jul 2025El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided302741
25 Jul 2025El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based151515
27 Jul 2025El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based454545

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. West Kordofan state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of July 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Sudan11126
SFA12156

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 West Kordofan state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20266P76PCandidate Events
August 20264P6PCandidate Events
July 20261P1PCandidate Events
June 20264P13PCandidate Events
May 20267P64PCandidate Events
April 20265P7PCandidate Events
March 202615P300PCandidate Events
February 20266P56PCandidate Events
January 20265P163PCandidate Events
December 20255155GED
November 202526373GED
October 20251143GED
September 202513GED
August 2025864GED
July 202512156GED
June 202513143GED
May 2025151,141GED
April 20254150GED
March 202517GED
February 202511GED
December 202415GED
November 202412GED
October 2024424GED
September 2024311GED
August 202438GED

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.

West Kordofan state: all figures

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ConflictStats. West Kordofan state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in July 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/sudan/west-kordofan-state/month/2025-07/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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