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Şa‘dah governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in May 2026

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UCDP recorded 6 eventsP of organized violence in Şa‘dah governorate, Yemen in May 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 15P. The low estimate is 13 and the high estimate is 15P. UCDP counts 7P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2026 was 1 eventP.

The count for May 2025 was 5 events. The change from May 2025 to May 2026 is up 20 percentP. Among the 23 months with a report for Şa‘dah governorate, Yemen, May 2026 has the 5th highest count of events. Şa‘dah governorate, Yemen holds 19 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Yemen in May 2026. In May 2025, the share was 12 percent.

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

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

Table 1. Şa‘dah governorate, May 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
1 May 2026Rāziḩ district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based202
4 May 2026Shadā’ district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based111
6 May 2026Shadā’ district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based222
15 May 2026Munabbih district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based111
22 May 2026Aş Şafrā’ district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based888
28 May 2026Majz district, Şa‘dah governorateGovernment of Yemen (North Yemen); Forces of the Presidential Leadership CouncilState-based111

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. Şa‘dah governorate: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Forces of the Presidential Leadership Council6P15P
Government of Yemen (North Yemen)6P15P

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 Şa‘dah governorate, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20265P21PCandidate Events
August 20267P32PCandidate Events
July 20262P2PCandidate Events
June 20265P6PCandidate Events
May 20266P15PCandidate Events
April 20261P1PCandidate Events
March 20263P5PCandidate Events
February 20264P4PCandidate Events
January 20265P5PCandidate Events
December 2025910GED
November 202566GED
October 202566GED
September 202522GED
August 202554GED
July 2025922GED
June 202555GED
May 2025510GED
April 2025780GED
March 2025427GED
January 202511GED
December 202433GED
November 202411GED
October 202422GED

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.

Şa‘dah governorate: all figures

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ConflictStats. Şa‘dah governorate, Yemen: events and estimated deaths in May 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/yemen/sa-dah-governorate/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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