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

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

UCDP recorded 4 eventsP of organized violence in West Kordofan state, Sudan in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 6P. UCDP counts 6P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2026 was 1 eventP.

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

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

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8, 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 Sudan has each event.

Table 1. West Kordofan state, August 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
2 Aug 2026El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided111
3 Aug 2026El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided222
4 Aug 2026El Nahud district, West Kordofan stateSFA; CiviliansOne-sided222
12 Aug 2026Ghubaysh 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 August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
SFA4P6P

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
August 20264P6PCandidate Events
July 20261P1PCandidate Events
June 20264P13PCandidate Events
May 20267P64PCandidate Events
April 20266P17PCandidate Events
March 202613P292PCandidate Events
February 20266P56PCandidate Events
January 20264P142PCandidate 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. A report of a month more than 24 months before the data end stays online. Search engines are asked not to list it.

West Kordofan state: all figures

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ConflictStats. West Kordofan state, Sudan: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/sudan/west-kordofan-state/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through .

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