What the records say
- When
- 2021 – 2025
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 574
- Coordinates
- 5.81° N, 7.04° E
- Incompatibility
- territory
- Type of conflict
- intrastate
- Types of conflict
- intrastate, internationalized intrastate
- Territory name
- Biafra
- Region
- Africa
- Location
- Nigeria
Placed at the middle of its 247 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
Conflict in Nigeria (2021–present)
The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
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