List of conflicts in Africa
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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 [edit]
- French conquest of Algeria
- North African Campaign (World War II)
- Sétif and Guelma massacre
- Algerian War
- Sand War
- Algerian Civil War
Angola [edit]
Burkina Faso [edit]
Burundi [edit]
Cameroon [edit]
Central African Republic [edit]
- Kongo-Wara
- Central African Republic Bush War 2004-2007
- 2012–present Central African Republic conflict
Chad [edit]
- 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 [edit]
Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) [edit]
Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) [edit]
- Congo Free State
- Congo Crisis June 1960 - November 1966
- [[State of Katanga|Katangan]
- South Kasai Secession
- Simba Rebellion
- Shaba I 1977
- Shaba II 1978
- First Congo War
- Second Congo War
Côte d'Ivoire [edit]
Djibouti [edit]
Egypt [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- First Italo-Ethiopia War
- Second Italo-Abyssinian War
- East African Campaign (World War II)
- Eritrean Civil Wars
- Eritrean War of Independence
- Eritrean-Ethiopian War
Gabon [edit]
Gambia [edit]
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Ghana [edit]
Guinea-Bissau [edit]
Kenya [edit]
- East African Campaign (World War I)
- East African Campaign (World War II)
- Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960)
- Shifta War (1963–1967)
Wagalla massacre
Lesotho [edit]
Liberia [edit]
Libya [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Battle of Madagascar (World War II)
- First Madagascar expedition
- Second Madagascar expedition
- Madagascar revolt
Mali [edit]
- Agacher Strip War
- Tuareg Rebellion
- Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
- Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)
Malawi [edit]
Mauritania [edit]
Mauritius [edit]
Morocco [edit]
- 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
- 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 [edit]
Namibia [edit]
- Caprivi conflict
- Herero Genocide
- Namibian War of Independence
- South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
Niger [edit]
Nigeria [edit]
- 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 [edit]
São Tomé and Príncipe [edit]
Senegal [edit]
Sierra Leone [edit]
Somalia [edit]
- 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 [edit]
Main article: Military history of South Africa
- Anglo-Zulu War
- Cape Frontier Wars
- Battle of Blood River
- Battle of Blaauwberg
- First Boer War
- Second Boer War
- Sharpeville Massacre
- Soweto Uprising
- South African Border War
- South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
- Weenen Massacre
- Zulu Civil War
Sudan [edit]
- Cemetery 117
- East African Campaign (World War II)
- The Mahdist War
- First Sudanese Civil War
- Second Sudanese Civil War
- Darfur Conflict
- Chad-Sudan conflict
Swaziland [edit]
Togo [edit]
Tunisia [edit]
- North African Campaign (World War II)
- Tunisian independence
- Bizerte crisis
- 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution
Uganda [edit]
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 [edit]
Zambia [edit]
Zimbabwe [edit]
- 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 [edit]
21st Century [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Military history of Africa
- List of modern conflicts in North Africa (the Maghreb region)
- List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
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