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West Kordofan state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in May 2026

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UCDP recorded 7 eventsP of organized violence in West Kordofan state, Sudan in May 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 64P. The low estimate is 52 and the high estimate is 64P. UCDP counts 32P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2026 was 5 eventsP.

The count for May 2025 was 15 events. The change from May 2025 to May 2026 is down 53 percentP. Among the 25 months with a report for West Kordofan state, Sudan, May 2026 has the 8th highest count of events. West Kordofan state, Sudan holds 11 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Sudan in May 2026. In May 2025, the share was 28 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Sudan, May 2026.

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 .

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Sudan has each event.

Table 1. West Kordofan state, May 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
2 May 2026Abyei - Muglad district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided111
9 May 2026El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based181518
11 May 2026El Salam district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based555
19 May 2026Ghubaysh district, West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based281928
22 May 2026El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided111
30 May 2026West Kordofan stateGovernment of Sudan; SFAState-based101010
30 May 2026Abyei - Muglad district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided111

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. West Kordofan state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Sudan4P61P
SFA7P64P

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.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

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 May 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/sudan/west-kordofan-state/month/2026-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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