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.
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
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.
^Henige, David (1979).
History in Africa. African Studies Association. p. 54.
Archived from the original on 2023-01-10. Retrieved 2020-10-02. By the time Portuguese military expeditions reached Kasanje in 1910, intent on effective occupation and "pacification," only regional chieftains, some still claiming the kinguri title, remained to resist their advance. Portuguese military commanders seized and destroyed the regalia of the kinguri position in 1912, thereby ending the history of the state by burning the symbols in which had inhered the power of its kings.
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).
This list includes
World War I and later conflicts (after 1914) of at least 100 fatalities each Prolonged conflicts are listed in the decade when initiated; ongoing conflicts are marked italic, and conflicts with +100,000 killed with bold.
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.
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
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.
^Henige, David (1979).
History in Africa. African Studies Association. p. 54.
Archived from the original on 2023-01-10. Retrieved 2020-10-02. By the time Portuguese military expeditions reached Kasanje in 1910, intent on effective occupation and "pacification," only regional chieftains, some still claiming the kinguri title, remained to resist their advance. Portuguese military commanders seized and destroyed the regalia of the kinguri position in 1912, thereby ending the history of the state by burning the symbols in which had inhered the power of its kings.
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).
This list includes
World War I and later conflicts (after 1914) of at least 100 fatalities each Prolonged conflicts are listed in the decade when initiated; ongoing conflicts are marked italic, and conflicts with +100,000 killed with bold.