Published June 20, 2021 at 11:45
Abroad. Despite a sharp drop in combat-related deaths in the 2010s largest war in Afghanistan and Syria, the latest report from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) shows that the number of deaths in organized violence in the world increased slightly in 2020, after five years of steady decline.
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In total, more than 80,100 deaths were registered in organized violence last year, compared with just over 76,000 the year before.
New outbreaks of conflicts that have long been inactive were seen in several places around in the world in 2020. For example, the wars in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Azerbaijan and Tigray, Ethiopia.
Even completely new conflicts, such as when the Islamic State in Mozambique crossed the border into Tanzania and challenged the government there, arose During the year.
At the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to warring parties around the world to lay down their arms to fight the pandemic. A number of rebel groups declared ceasefires, but few of them led to reduced combat. When the conflict year 2020 is summed up, it turns out that the number of active conflicts, both where states are involved and conflicts between non-state groups, increased. The same applies to violence against civilians.