Conflict areas

Military satellites over Somalia

On 21 October 2026, working military satellites of 19 countries were predicted to pass over the places in Somalia where UCDP recorded fighting this year: 494 passes by 388 satellites. China's made the most: 258 passes by 193 satellites. A country's satellites over itself are not counted.

UCDP recorded 2,586 deaths (best estimate) in 250 events of state-based armed conflict in Somalia between 2 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 Somalia 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 Somalia 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
Somalia: Government
Internationalised internal		2,55818 January 1982
this round since 24 October 2006
Somalia: Islamic State
Internationalised internal		138 February 2018
this round since 1 February 2025
Kenya: Northeastern Province and Coast
Internal		013 March 2015
this round since 13 July 2015

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.