Conflict areas

Military satellites over Burkina Faso

On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 18 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Burkina Faso where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 340 passes by 293 satellites. China's made the most: 185 passes by 154 satellites. A country's satellites over itself are not counted.

UCDP recorded 1,649 deaths (best estimate) in 412 events of state-based armed conflict in Burkina Faso between 4 January 2026 and 1 September 2026.

Passes by country, 21 October 2026

predicted

How often each country's working military satellites pass over the fighting in Burkina Faso in the UTC day, for how many minutes in all, and by how many satellites. Arrows: the last 7 days against the 7 before, shown from 10% when new, moved or stopped satellites are behind it, or from 35% otherwise.

The fighting, from UCDP

1 January 2026 to 10 September 2026

The state-based armed conflicts UCDP recorded deaths in Burkina Faso this year, with when each began from the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset (to 2025). Conflicts that began later aren't in that list yet.

ConflictDeathsSince
Burkina Faso: Government
Internationalised internal		1,62315 October 1987
this round since 22 May 2018
Burkina Faso: Islamic State
Internationalised internal		1923 October 2017
this round since 19 August 2019
Benin: Government
Internal		79 February 2020
this round since 12 October 2022

Other conflict areas

by passes

Passes and clusters: predicted by overhead24 for each minute of the day from Space-Track.org orbital elements, counting a pass when the point beneath a satellite is in or next to a 0.5° cell where UCDP recorded a death this year. Military satellites and their countries: GCAT by Jonathan McDowell (CC BY 4.0). Fighting: the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Hegre, Håvard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck and Stina Högbladh (2020), "Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset", Research & Politics. UCDP is part of and funded by DEMSCORE, national research infrastructure grant 2021-00162 from the Swedish Research Council. Conflict start dates: UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset 26.1. Davies, Shawn, Therése Pettersson and Magnus Öberg (2026), "Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests", Journal of Peace Research, doi:10.1093/jopres/xjag046; Gleditsch, Nils Petter, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg and Håvard Strand (2002), "Armed Conflict 1946–2001: A New Dataset", Journal of Peace Research 39(5). See military satellites by country and how overhead24 works.