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Abyan governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in April 2026

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

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UCDP recorded 2 eventsP of organized violence in Abyan governorate, Yemen in April 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 3P. UCDP counts 2P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for March 2026 was 1 eventP.

The count for April 2025 was 1 event. The change from April 2025 to April 2026 is up 100 percentP. Among the 22 months with a report for Abyan governorate, Yemen, April 2026 has the 3rd highest count of events. Abyan governorate, Yemen holds 6 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Yemen in April 2026. In April 2025, the share was 2 percent.

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

The report of the country for this month: Yemen, April 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 26.0.9, 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 Yemen has each event.

Table 1. Abyan governorate, April 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
7 Apr 2026Lawdar district, Abyan governorateActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPNon-state222
25 Apr 2026Mūdīyah district, Abyan governorateAQAP; Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilNon-state111

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

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Abyan governorate: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of April 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP1P2P
AQAP1P1P
Forces of the Presidential Leadership Council1P1P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

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

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Abyan governorate, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
August 20261P1PCandidate Events
July 20262P5PCandidate Events
May 20261P3PCandidate Events
April 20262P3PCandidate Events
March 20261P1PCandidate Events
January 20261P2PCandidate Events
December 202523GED
November 202512GED
October 2025111GED
September 202529GED
August 202511GED
June 202527GED
May 2025312GED
April 202511GED
March 202523GED
February 202525GED
January 202524GED
December 202434GED
November 202424GED
October 202423GED
September 202412GED
August 2024223GED

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.

Abyan governorate: all figures

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ConflictStats. Abyan governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in April 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/yemen/abyan-governorate/month/2026-04/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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