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

• Algerian War
• Algerian Civil War
  • List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s
• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Sand War

Angola

• Angolan War of Independence
• Angolan Civil War
  • Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
  • Battle of Cassinga

Benin

• Punitive Expedition of 1897

Burkina Faso

• Agacher Strip War

Burundi

• Ethnic Violence in Burundi
• Burundi Civil War
  • Titanic Express Massacre
  • Itaba Massacre
  • Gatumba Massacre

Cameroon

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

Chad

• Chadian Civil Wars:
  • 1965-1993 Chadian Civil War (led to Libyan intervention)
    • 1978-1987 Libya-Chad War
  • 2005- Second Chadian Civil War (also involves Sudan)

Comoros

• Comorian Secession Crisis

Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of Congo)

• Congo (Brazzaville) Civil War
• Kongo Civil War

Congo-Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)

• Congo Crisis
  • Katangan Secession
  • South Kasai Secession
• Simba Rebellion
• Shaba Invasions
• First Congo War
• Second Congo War
  • Ituri Conflict

Côte d'Ivoire

• Côte d'Ivoire Civil War

Djibouti

• Djiboutian Civil War

Egypt

• Arab-Israeli War (1948)
• Libyan-Egyptian War
• Mahdist War
• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Six Day War
• Suez Crisis
• Yom Kippur War

Eritrea

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

Ethiopia

• East African Campaign (World War II)
  • Battle of Keren
• Eritrean War of Independence
• Ethiopian-Adal War
• Ethiopian Civil War
• Eritrean-Ethiopian War
• 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia
• First Italo-Ethiopia War
  • Battle of Adowa
• Ogaden War
• Second Italo-Abyssinian War
  • Battle of Maychew

Gabon

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

Gambia

• Casamance Conflict

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 Rebellion (1952-1960)
• Shifta War (1963–1967)
• Turbi Village Massacre (2005)

Lesotho

• Gun War
• South African intervention in Lesotho

Liberia

• First Liberian Civil War
• Second Liberian Civil War

Libya

• Chadian-Libyan conflict
• Italo-Turkish War
• Libyan-Egyptian War
• North African Campaign (World War II)

Madagascar

• Battle of Madagascar (World War II)
• Madagascar revolt

Mali

• Agacher Strip War
• Tuareg Rebellion

Malawi

• East African Campaign (World War I)

Mauritania

• Mauritania-Senegal Border War

Mauritius

• Battle of Grand Port

Morocco

• North African Campaign (World War II)
• Spanish-Moroccan War (1859)
• Rif Wars
  • Rif War (1893)
  • Rif War (1909)
  • Rif War (1920)
• Sand War
• Western Sahara conflict

Mozambique

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

Namibia

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

Niger

• Tuareg Rebellion

Nigeria

• Nigerian Civil War
• Yelwa Massacre

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

• Ndogboyosoi War
• Sierra Leone Civil War

Somalia

• East African Campaign (World War II)
  • Italian conquest of British Somaliland
• Ogaden War
• Somalian 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

• 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

Tanzania

• Abushiri Revolt
• Anglo-Zanzibar War
• East African Campaign (World War I)
  • Battle of Tanga
• Maji Maji Rebellion
• Uganda-Tanzania War
• Zanzibar Revolution (1964)

Togo

• West Africa Campaign (World War I)

Tunisia

• North African Campaign (World War II)

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 conflict

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

See also

• Military history of Africa
• List of conflicts in the Maghreb
• Conflicts in the Horn of Africa