List of conflicts in Africa

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This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa. It encompasses colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major episodes of national violence (riots, massacres, etc.), and global conflicts in which Africa was a theatre of war.

African Great Lakes[edit]

Burundi[edit]

Rwanda[edit]

Kenya[edit]

South Sudan[edit]

Tanzania[edit]

Uganda[edit]

Central Africa[edit]

Cameroon[edit]

Central African Republic[edit]

Chad[edit]

Kanem Empire[edit]

  • c. 1203–1243 Dunama Dabbalemi, of the Sayfawa dynasty, mai of the Kanem Empire, declared jihad against the surrounding tribes and initiated an extended period of conquest
  • c. 1342 – c. 1388 Fall of Kanem
    • c. 1342 – c. 1352 Sao Resurgence
    • c. 1376 – c. 1388 Bulala Invasion

French Chad[edit]

  • 1909–1911 Ouaddai War
  • 1915 – 15 November 1917 Massacre des coupes-coupes (in Arabic: Kabkab Massacre, مجزرة كبكب)

Republic of Chad[edit]

Congo (Republic of)[edit]

Congo (Democratic Republic of)[edit]

São Tomé and Príncipe[edit]

Horn of Africa[edit]

Djibouti[edit]

Eritrea[edit]

Italian Eritrea[edit]

Italian East Africa[edit]

Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea[edit]

  • 1 September 1961 – 29 May 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
    • 24 July 1967 – 172 men killed in Hazemo
    • 1967 – 50 students suspected of being members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) had been hanged in the centre of Agordat.
    • 17 January 1970 – 60 village elders in Elabared had been rounded up for supporting the Eritrean Liberation Front and killed.
    • 30 November 1970 – 121 people in Basik Dera had been rounded up into the local mosque and killed.
    • 1 December 1970 – Ethiopian Army units surrounded and killed 625 people in Ona, and burned the village down
    • 28 December 1974 – 45 students in Asmara were strangled to death and their bodies dumped in alleyways and doorsteps
    • 2 February 1975 – During an engagement with the EPLF and the ELF, the Ethiopian Army attacked the church where 103 villagers in Woki Duba had taken refuge
    • 14 February 1975 – Ethiopian troops fired on and killed 300–3,000 civilians in Asmara and nearby villages
    • 9 March 1975 – Ethiopian troops killed 208 civilians in Agordat
    • August 1975 – 250 villagers in Om Hajer were machine-gunned in front of a river
    • April 1988 – Three killed by aerial attacks in Agordat
    • 5 December 1988 – 400 killed in She'eb
    • 3–4 April 1990 – Aerial attacks in Afabet killed 67 and wounded 125
    • 24 April 1990 – Aerial attacks and cluster bombs in Massawa killed 50 and wounded 110
    • 1977–1978 Battle of Massawa
    • 1977 Siege of Barentu
    • 17–20 March 1988 Battle of Afabet
    • 8–10 February 1990 Battle of Massawa

Ethiopian Empire[edit]

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia[edit]

Transitional Government of Ethiopia[edit]

State of Eritrea[edit]

Ethiopia[edit]

Axumite Empire[edit]

Makhzumi Dynasty[edit]

Ethiopian Empire[edit]

Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea[edit]

Ethiopian Empire[edit]

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia[edit]

Transitional Government of Ethiopia[edit]

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia[edit]

Somalia[edit]

Ajuuraan State[edit]

Italian East Africa[edit]

Somali Democratic Republic[edit]

Transitional Federal Government[edit]

Federal Republic of Somalia[edit]

Somaliland[edit]

Indian Ocean islands[edit]

Comoros[edit]

Madagascar[edit]

Mauritius[edit]

North Africa[edit]

Algeria[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Libya[edit]

Morocco[edit]

Sudan[edit]

Nubia[edit]

  • c. 3050 BCE Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians

Kingdom of Kerma[edit]

  • c. 1506 BCE – 1493 BCE During the reign of Thutmose I, the Kingdom of Kerma rebelled against Egyptian rule and Thutmose I traveled up the Nile and fought in the battle, killing the Nubian king.

Egyptian Empire[edit]

  • c. 1282 BCE Seti's military campaigns
  • c. 1279 BCE – 1213 BCE Remesses II's campaigns in Nubia

Kingdom of Kush[edit]

  • 23 BCE The Roman prefect of Egypt invaded the Kingdom of Kush after an initial attack by the queen of Meröe, razing Napata to the ground
  • c. 300 CE Ezana of Axum launched several military campaigns, destroying the Kingdom of Kush

Kingdom of Makuria[edit]

  • 1312 Mamluk Invasion

Sultanate of Darfur[edit]

  • 1722–1786 Civil War

Egyptian Eyalet[edit]

  • February 1820 – October 1822 Invasion of Libya and Sudan

Khedivate of Egypt[edit]

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan[edit]

Republic of the Sudan[edit]

Democratic Republic of the Sudan[edit]

Republic of the Sudan[edit]

Tunisia[edit]

Carthaginian Empire[edit]

Kingdom of Numidia[edit]

Roman Province of Africa[edit]

Vandal Kingdom[edit]

Byzantine Praetorian Prefecture of Africa[edit]

  • The Moorish Wars
    • 534 First Moorish uprising
    • 536 Military mutiny
    • 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
  • 577 Conflict with Moorish kingdom of Garmul

Byzantine Exarchate of Africa[edit]

Aghlabids[edit]

Fatimid Caliphate[edit]

Almohad Caliphate[edit]

Ayyubid Dynasty[edit]

Hafsid Dynasty[edit]

Ottoman Tunisia[edit]

French Protectorate of Tunisia[edit]

Kingdom of Tunisia[edit]

Republic of Tunisia[edit]

Southern Africa[edit]

Angola[edit]

Lesotho[edit]

Malawi[edit]

Mozambique[edit]

Namibia[edit]

South Africa[edit]

Eswatini[edit]

Zambia[edit]

Zimbabwe[edit]

West Africa[edit]

Benin[edit]

Burkina Faso[edit]

Côte d'Ivoire[edit]

Gambia[edit]

Ghana[edit]

Guinea[edit]

Guinea-Bissau[edit]

Liberia[edit]

Mali[edit]

Mauritania[edit]

Niger[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

Sierra Leone[edit]

Western Sahara[edit]

Chronological list of wars[edit]

19th century[edit]

20th century[edit]

21st century[edit]

See also[edit]

General:

References[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

  • Ahram, Ariel I. War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (John Wiley & Sons, 2020).
  • Christman, Audrey Mona. Civil wars in Africa: Roots and resolution (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1999).
  • Kalu, Kelechi A. ed. Civil Wars in Africa (2022) excerpt
  • Sidorova, Galina, and Eliza Lyubenova. "Contemporary Wars in Africa or 21st Century Competition for Power." Journal of Asian and African Studies (2020): 0021909620965609.
  • Williams, Paul D. War and conflict in Africa (John Wiley & Sons, 2016).