Fatalities due to one sided-violence in Africa 2021

Except for the Government of Eritrea, which was responsible for a combined 1,555 deaths in the conflicts in Yemen and Ethiopia, the Government of Ethiopia was responsible for the highest number of deaths due to one-sided violence in Africa in 2021. In its own country as well as in neighboring Sudan, the Ethiopian Government was responsible for more than 1,100 deaths. Moreover, a coalition of the Government of Ethiopia and the Government of Eritrea stood behind nearly 900 killings in Ethiopia that year. The Union of Revolutionaries for the Defense of the Congolese People (URDPC) was the non-state actor behind the highest number of deadly victims of one-sided violence in Africa in 2021.