List of modern conflicts in North Africa

  Northern Africa (UN subregion)

  geographic, including above

Note:

• "Modern" is defined as post-WWI period, from 1918 until today.
• "North Africa" definition is approximately overlapping the Arab term `Maghreb`.
• "Conflict" is defined as a separate 100+ casualty incident.
• In all cases conflicts are listed by total deaths, including subconflicts (specified below).

List of conflicts

Date	Conflict	Location	Casualties
1919	Egyptian Revolution of 1919	Sultanate of Egypt	800-3,000
1920-1926	Rif War[citation needed]	Republic of the Rif	40,000-46,400
1939–1945	Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II	Kingdom of Egypt	1,000,000
1945	1945 Tripoli pogrom	British Tripolitania	140
1946	Egyptian Student Riots	Kingdom of Egypt	100–300
1952	Egyptian Revolution of 1952	Egypt	1,000
1952-1954	Tunisian War of Independence[citation needed]	Tunisia	2,500
1953-1956	Moroccan War of Independence[citation needed]	Morocco	3,000
1955-1972	First Sudanese Civil War	Sudan	500,000
1954-1962	Algerian War of Independence[citation needed]	Algeria	179,000-1,500,000
1957-1958	Ifni War	Morocco	8,400
1961	Bizerte crisis	Tunisia	654
1961-1964	First Tuareg rebellion	Mali Niger
1963-1964	1963 Algerian civil war	Algeria	1,500
1963-1964	Sand War	Morocco, Algeria	339
1965-1979	Civil war in Chad	Chad	500+
1975-	Western Sahara conflict	Morocco, SADR, Algeria	14,000-21,000
1977	Libyan–Egyptian War[citation needed]	Egypt, Libya	500
1977	1977 Egyptian Bread Riots	Egypt	70–800
1978-1987	Chadian–Libyan conflict	Egypt, Chad	8,500
1979-1982	Civil conflict in Chad[citation needed]	Chad
1982-2002	Civil war in Chad (1998–2002)[citation needed]	Chad	37,500
1983-2005	Second Sudanese Civil War[citation needed]	Sudan	600,000-2,500,000
1986	1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot	Egypt	107
1990-1995	Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995)	Mali Niger	650-1,500
1992–2000	Terrorism in Egypt	Egypt	1,300–2,000
1992-2002	Algerian Civil War[citation needed]	Algeria	100,000-200,000
2001-2002	Black Spring (Kabylie)	Algeria	123
2002-	Insurgency in the Maghreb	Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Mali	6,000
2003-2009	War in Darfur[citation needed]	Sudan	100,000-330,000
2005-2010	Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)	Chad Sudan	1,140
2007-2009	Tuareg Rebellion (2007–2009)	Mali Niger	350-1,330
2009-	Sudanese nomadic conflicts	Sudan South Sudan	3,000-3,500
2010–	Arab Spring	Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, SADR	26,300-31,300
2011	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict	Sudan	1,500

Casualties breakdown

[a].^ North African Campaign (WWII) - combined figure ~430,000 killed:

Western Desert Campaign - 50,000 casualties.

Battle of Cape Bon - 900+ casualties.

Raid on Alexandria (1941) - 8 casualties.

Action off Cape Bougaroun - 27 killed.

Mers al-Kbir - 1,299 killed.

Operation Torch - 1,825 killed.

Tunisia campaign - ~376,000 killed.

[b].^ Polisario Front dispute for independence (combined casualty figure 14,020-14,038):

Western Sahara War - 7,000 Moroccan, Mauritianian and French soldiers killed; 4,000 Polisario killed; 3,000 civilians killed.

Independence Intifada (Western Sahara) - 1 killed.

Gdeim Izik protest camp - 18-36 killed.

2011 Sahrawi protests - 1 killed.

[c].^ Tuareg rebellion (1990-1995) combined casualties at least 650-1,500:

Tchin-Tabaradene massacre - 650-1,500 civilians killed.

[d].^ Arab Spring combined casualty figure 26,283-31,290:

Crisis in Egypt

2011 Egyptian Revolution - 846 killed

Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution - 99 killed.

Tunisian Revolution - 224 killed.

Libyan crisis

2011 Libyan civil war - 25,000-30,000 killed.

2011–2012 Libyan interfactional fighting - 103-110 killed.

2011 Western Saharan protests - 1 killed.

2010–2011 Algerian protests - 8 killed.

2011 Moroccan protests - 1 killed.

2011 Sudanese protests - 1 killed.

See also

• List of conflicts in Africa
• List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
• List of conflicts in the Arab League