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Laḩij governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in September 2026

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

UCDP recorded 31 eventsP of organized violence in Laḩij governorate, Yemen in September 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 372P. The low estimate is 191 and the high estimate is 385P. UCDP counts 23P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for August 2026 was 1 eventP.

The count for September 2025 was 1 event. The change from September 2025 to September 2026 is up 3000 percentP. Among the 20 months with a report for Laḩij governorate, Yemen, September 2026 has the highest count of events. Laḩij governorate, Yemen holds 13 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Yemen in September 2026. In September 2025, the share was 5 percent.

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

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

Table 1. Laḩij governorate, September 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (6 of 31 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
15 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based1650165
16 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based151515
16 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based444444
18 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based202027
20 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based12212
28 Sep 2026Al Maḑāribah wa Al ‘Ārah district, Laḩij governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based373737

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. Laḩij governorate: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of September 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Forces of the Presidential Leadership Council30P371P
Government of Yemen (North Yemen)31P372P

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 Laḩij governorate, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202631P372PCandidate Events
August 20261P1PCandidate Events
July 20261P2PCandidate Events
May 20263P4PCandidate Events
April 20263P10PCandidate Events
March 20261P1PCandidate Events
January 20262P6PCandidate Events
December 2025413GED
November 202517GED
October 202514GED
September 202511GED
August 202512GED
July 202511GED
June 202511GED
May 202549GED
April 202516GED
March 202515GED
February 202522GED
December 202413GED
September 202427GED

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.

Laḩij governorate: all figures

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ConflictStats. Laḩij governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in September 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/yemen/lahij-governorate/month/2026-09/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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