List of conflicts in Africa

A thus far incomplete list of conflicts in Africa (arranged by country), including;

• Wars between African nations
• Civil Wars within African nations
• Colonial Wars/Conflicts in Africa
• Wars of Independence in African nations
• Secessionist/Separatist Conflicts in Africa
• Major episodes of violence (riots, massacres, etc.) in African nations

Algeria

• French conquest of Algeria
• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Sétif and Guelma massacre
• Algerian War
• Sand War
• Algerian Civil War

Angola

• Angolan War of Independence
• Angolan Civil War
  • Battle of Casey Carleton
  • Battle of Cassinga

Burkina Faso

• Agacher Strip War

Burundi

• Burundi genocide
• Burundi Civil War
  • Titanic Express Massacre
  • Itaba Massacre
  • Gatumba Massacre

Cameroon

• West Africa Campaign (World War I)
• West Africa Campaign (World War II)

Central African Republic

• Kongo-Wara
• Central African Republic Bush War 2004-2007
• 2012–present Central African Republic conflict

Chad

• Civil war in Chad (1965–1979)
• Civil war in Chad (1979-1982)
• Chadian-Libyan conflict
• Civil war in Chad (1998–2002)
• Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Comoros

• Comorian Secession Crisis
• 2008 invasion of Anjouan

Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)

• Congo (Brazzaville) Civil War
• Kongo Civil War

Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)

• Congo Free State
• Congo Crisis June 1960 - November 1966
  • Katangan
  • South Kasai Secession
  • Simba Rebellion
• Shaba I 1977
• Shaba II 1978
• First Congo War
• Second Congo War
  • Ituri Conflict
  • Kivu Conflict

Côte d'Ivoire

• Côte d'Ivoire Civil War

Djibouti

• Djiboutian Civil War
• Djiboutian-Eritrean border conflict

Egypt

• Battle of Bitter Lakes
• Battle of Pelusium (525 BC)
• Siege of Gaza
• Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
• Mahdist War
• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Arab-Israeli War (1948)
• Suez Crisis
• Six Day War
• War of Attrition
• Yom Kippur War
• Libyan-Egyptian War

Eritrea

• First Italo-Ethiopia War
• Second Italo-Abyssinian War
• East African Campaign (World War II)
• Eritrean Civil Wars
• Eritrean War of Independence
  • List of massacres committed during the Eritrean War of Independence
• Eritrean-Ethiopian War

Gabon

• West Africa Campaign (World War II)
  • Battle of Gabon

Ghana

• Accra Riots

Guinea-Bissau

• Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
• Guinea-Bissau Civil War

Kenya

• East African Campaign (World War I)
• East African Campaign (World War II)
• Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)
• Shifta War (1963–1967)

Wagalla massacre

• Turbi Village Massacre (2005)
• 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis

Lesotho

• Gun War
• South African intervention in Lesotho

Liberia

• First Liberian Civil War
• Second Liberian Civil War

Libya

• 2011–2012 Libyan factional fighting
• Libyan civil war
• Chadian-Libyan conflict
• Libyan-Egyptian War
• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Libyan resistance movement
• Italo-Turkish War

Madagascar

• Battle of Madagascar (World War II)
• First Madagascar expedition
• Second Madagascar expedition
• Madagascar revolt

Mali

• Agacher Strip War
• Tuareg Rebellion
• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
• Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)

Malawi

• East African Campaign (World War I)

Mauritania

• Mauritania-Senegal Border War
• Western Sahara War
• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

Mauritius

• Battle of Grand Port

Morocco

• Berber Revolt (739–743)
• Almoravid-Almohad War (1130–1147)
• Almohad-Marinid War (1215–1269)
• Morocco-Tlemcen conflict (1299–1370)
  • First siege of Tlemcen (1299–1307)
  • Second siege of Tlemcen (1335–1337)
  • Moroccan conquest of Tlemcen (1337–1348, 1350–1358, 1370, 1380)
• Moroccan-Portuguese conflict (1415–1578)
• 1465 Revolt
• Wattassid-Saadian War (1527–1554)
• Moroccan-Turkish border conflict (1554–1830)
• 1603–1627 War of Succession
• 1613–1666 Civil War
• First Franco-Moroccan War (1844)
• Spanish-Moroccan War (1859)
• Rif Wars
  • Rif War (1893)
  • Rif War (1909)
  • Rif War (1920)
• Second Franco-Moroccan War (1911–1912)
• Zaian War (1914–1921)
• North African Campaign (World War II) (1942)
• Ifni War (1957–1958)
• Sand War (1963)
• Western Sahara War (1975–1991)

Mozambique

• East African Campaign (World War I)
• Mozambican War of Independence
• Mozambican Civil War

Namibia

• Caprivi conflict
• Herero Genocide
• Namibian War of Independence
• South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
  • Maritz Rebellion

Niger

• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
• Tuareg Rebellion

Nigeria

• Benin Expedition of 1897
• 2009 Nigerian sectarian violence
• 2010 Jos riots
• Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
• Nigerian Sharia conflict
• Conflict in the Niger Delta

Rwanda

• Rwandan Civil War
  • Rwandan Genocide

São Tomé and Príncipe

• Batepá Massacre

Senegal

• Casamance Conflict
• Mauritania-Senegal Border War
• West Africa Campaign (World War II)
  • Battle of Dakar

Sierra Leone

• Action of 7 February 1813
• Ndogboyosoi War
• Sierra Leone Civil War

Somalia

• Somaliland Campaign
• Ethiopian-Adal War
• East African Campaign (World War II)
• Italian conquest of British Somaliland
• Ogaden War
• Somali Revolution 1986-1991
• Somali Civil War
• War in Somalia 2006–present

South Africa

Main article: Military history of South Africa

• Anglo-Zulu War
  • Battle of Isandlwana
  • Rorke's Drift
  • Battle of Intombe
  • Battle of Gingindlovu
  • Siege of Eshowe
  • Battle of Hlobane
  • Battle of Kambula
  • Battle of Ulundi
• Cape Frontier Wars
• Battle of Blood River
• Battle of Blaauwberg
• First Boer War
• Second Boer War
• Sharpeville Massacre
• Soweto Uprising
• South African Border War
  • Battle of Cassinga
• South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
  • Maritz Rebellion
• Weenen Massacre
• Zulu Civil War

Sudan

• Cemetery 117
• East African Campaign (World War II)
• The Mahdist War
  • Battle of Abu Klea
  • Battle of Omdurman
  • Battle of Umm Diwaykarat
• First Sudanese Civil War
  • Anyanya rebellion
• Second Sudanese Civil War
• Darfur Conflict
• Chad-Sudan conflict

Swaziland

• Second Boer War

Togo

• West Africa Campaign (World War I)

Tunisia

• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Tunisian independence
• Bizerte crisis
• 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution

Uganda

Further information: Military history of Uganda

• 1971 Ugandan coup d'état
• Operation Entebbe (1976)
• Uganda-Tanzania War (1978 – 1979)
  • Fall of Kampala (1979)
• Uganda National Rescue Front (1980–1985)
• Ugandan Civil War (1982 – 1986)
• Uganda People's Democratic Army (1986–1988)
• Holy Spirit Movement (1986–1987)
• Lord's Resistance Army (1987–present)
• Allied Democratic Forces (1996-?)
• Uganda National Rescue Front II (1996–2002)

Western Sahara

• Ifni War
• Western Sahara War

Zambia

• East African Campaign (World War I)
• East African Campaign (World War II)

Zimbabwe

• First Matabele War
• Chimurenga - overview of Rhodesian/Zimbabwe Civil Wars
• Second Matabele War a.k.a. the First Chimurenga
• Second Chimurenga/Rhodesian Bush War 1964-1979

Chronological List of wars

21st Century

• 2001–present War on Terrorism
  • 1997–present Islamic Terrorism in Egypt
  • 2002–present Islamic insurgency in the Maghreb
  • 2002–present Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa
  • 2006 Rise of the Islamic Courts Union
  • 2006–2009 Ethiopian War in Somalia
  • 2007–present Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara
  • 2009–present Islamist civil war in Somalia
  • 2009 Taliban insurgency in Nigeria
• 2001–2003 Central African Republic civil war
• 2002–2003 Ivorian Civil War
• 2003–2009 War in Darfur
• 2004 French–Ivorian clashes
• 2004–present Conflict in the Niger Delta
• 2004–2007 Central African Republic Bush War
• 2004–present Kivu conflict
• 2005–2010 Chadian Civil War
• 2005–2008 Mount Elgon insurgency
• 2007–2009 Second Tuareg Rebellion
• 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis
• 2008 Invasion of Anjouan
• 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
• 2009 Sudan airstrikes
• 2011 Second Ivorian Civil War
• 2011 Libyan civil war
• 2012–present Tuareg rebellion

See also

• Military history of Africa
• List of modern conflicts in North Africa (the Maghreb region)
• List of modern conflicts in the Middle East