List of conflicts in Africa

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 pre-colonial wars, 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.

Continental map of the ongoing conflicts in Africa

African Great Lakes

Burundi

• October 18 – 19, 1965 1965 Burundian coup attempt
• July 8, 1966 July 1966 Burundian coup d'état
• November 28, 1966 November 1966 Burundian coup d'état
• 1972 Burundi genocide
• November 1, 1976 1976 Burundian coup d'état
• September 3, 1987 1987 Burundian coup d'état
• 1993 – 2005 Burundi Civil War
  • October 21 – November 1993 1993 Burundian coup attempt
  • July 25, 1996 1996 Burundian coup d'état
  • December 28, 2000 Titanic Express Massacre
  • April 18, 2001 2001 Burundian coup attempt
  • September 9, 2002 Itaba Massacre
  • August 13, 2004 Gatumba Massacre
• 2015–2018 Burundian unrest
  • May 13 – 15, 2015 2015 Burundian coup attempt

Rwanda

• 1896 Rucunshu Coup
• November 1, 1959 – July 1, 1961 Rwandan Revolution
• January 28, 1961 Coup of Gitarama
• 1963 Bugesera invasion
• July 5, 1973 1973 Rwandan coup d'état
• 1990 – 1994 Rwandan Civil War
  • April 7, 1994 – July 15, 1994 Rwandan genocide

Kenya

• August 3, 1914 – November 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
• June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African Campaign (World War II)
• 1952 – 1960 Mau Mau Uprising
• 1963 – present Somali–Kenyan conflict
• 1963 – 1967 Shifta War
• October 25, 1969 Kisumu massacre
• 1980 Garissa Massacre
• August 1, 1982 1982 Kenyan coup attempt
• February 10, 1984 Wagalla massacre
• 1987 – 1990 Kenyan-Ugandan border conflict
• 1998 – present Terrorism in Kenya
  • September 21 – 24, 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
• 2005 Turbi Village Massacre
• 2005 – 2008 Mount Elgon insurgency
• August 22, 2012 2012–2013 Tana River District clashes
• November 2012 Baragoi clashes

South Sudan

• 1955 – 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
  • August 18–30, 1955 Torit mutiny
• 1983 – 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
  • 9 March – April 1997 Operation Thunderbolt (1997)
  • June 2000 – August 2001 War of the Peters
• 1987 – present Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• 2005 – 2006 Disarmament of the Lou Nuer
• 2006 Battle of Malakal
• 2008 – ongoing Sudanese nomadic conflicts
• 2010 – 2011 George Athor's rebellion
• 2008 – present Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 2011 – ongoing Ethnic violence in South Sudan (2011–present)
• 2011 – 2020 Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
• 2012 Heglig Crisis
• 2013 – 2020 South Sudanese Civil War
• 2022– present Abyei border conflict (2022–present)

Tanzania

• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• 1964 Zanzibar Revolution
• 1972 1972 invasion of Uganda
• 1978 – 1979 Uganda–Tanzania War

Uganda

• 1966 Mengo Crisis
• January 25, 1971 1971 Ugandan coup d'état
• 1972 1972 invasion of Uganda
• 1974 Arube uprising
• 1976 Operation Entebbe
• 1977 Operation Mafuta Mingi
• 1977 1977 invasion of Uganda
• 1978 – 1979 Uganda-Tanzania War
  • April 11, 1979 Fall of Kampala
• 1980 – 1986 Ugandan Bush War
  • July 27, 1985 1985 Ugandan coup d'état
  • January 26, 1986 Battle of Kampala
• 1986 – 1994 War in Uganda (1986-1994)
• 1987 – 1990 Kenyan-Ugandan border conflict
• 1987 – ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• 1996 – ongoing Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
• 1996 – 2002 UNRF II insurgency
• 2016 Kasese clashes

Central Africa

Cameroon

• 1804–1808 Fulani War
• 1835–1836 Fula jihads
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
• 1955 – 1964 Cameroon War
• 1981 – present Bakassi conflict
  • 1981 – 2005 Nigerian-Cameroonian conflict over Bakassi
  • 2006 – 2018 First Bakassi insurgency
  • 2021 – present Pro-Biafran insurgency in Bakassi
• 6 February 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
    • 23 January – 24 December 2015 2015 West African offensive
    • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
• 2017 – present Anglophone Crisis
  • July 3, 2018 Battle of Batibo
  • July 28, 2018 Ndop prison break
  • September 25, 2018 Wum prison break
  • 26 April – May 1, 2020 Operation Free Bafut
  • 8 September 2020 – present Operation Bamenda Clean
  • May – June 2021 Operation Bui Clean
  • September 16, 2021 September 2021 Bamessing ambush
  • July 31, 2022 Battle of Bambui

Central African Republic

• 1928–1931 Kongo-Wara rebellion
• December, 31 1965 – January, 1 1966 Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état
• September 21, 1979 1979 Central African coup d'état
• September 1, 1981 1981 Central African Republic coup d'état
• March 3, 1982 1982 Central African Republic coup attempt
• 1987 – present Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• May 27 – 28, 2001 2001 Central African Republic coup attempt
• October 25 – 31, 2002 2002 Central African Republic coup attempt
• March 15, 2003 2003 Central African Republic coup d'état
• 2004 – 2007 Central African Republic Bush War
• 2012 – present Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present)
  • March 22 – 23, 2013 Battle of Bangui (2013)
  • 13 April 2013 – 10 January 2014 Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration

Chad

Kanem Empire

• 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

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

Republic of Chad

• 1 November 1965 Mangalmé riots
• 1965 – 1979 Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)
• 1978 – 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict
  • 1983 – 1984 Operation Manta
  • February 13, 1986 – August 1, 2014 Opération Épervier
  • 1986 – 1987 Toyota War
• 1983 Chadian–Nigerian War
• December 2 – 3, 1990 1990 Chadian coup d'état
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 6 February 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
• May 16, 2004 2004 Chadian coup attempt
• 2005 – 2010 War in Chad
  • 18 December 2005 Battle of Adré
  • 6 January 2006 Raid on Borota
  • 6 March 2006 Raid on Amdjereme
  • 13 April 2006 Battle of N'Djamena (2006)
  • 1 May 2006 Raid on Dalola
  • 2–4 February 2008 Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
  • 18 June 2008 Battle of Am Zoer
  • 7 May 2009 Battle of Am Dam
  • 24–28 April 2010 Battle of Tamassi
• 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
  • 23 January – 24 December 2015 2015 West African offensive
  • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
• May 1, 2013 2013 Chadian coup attempt
• 2016 – present Insurgency in Chad (2016–present)
  • April 11 – May 9, 2021 2021 Northern Chad offensive

Congo (Republic of)

• 1665–1709 Kongo Civil War
• June 27 – July 6, 1966 1966 Republic of the Congo coup attempt
• September 4, 1968 1968 Republic of the Congo coup d'état
• February 22, 1972 1972 Republic of the Congo coup attempt
• July – September 1987 1987 Republic of the Congo coup attempt
• 1993 – 1994 Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–94)
• 1997 – 1999 Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)
• 2002 – 2003 2002–2003 conflict in the Pool Department
• 2016 – 2017 Pool War

Congo (Democratic Republic of)

Main article: List of conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 1892–1894 Congo–Arab war
• 1895–1908 Batetela rebellion
• 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 World War I
• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II
• 1960 – 1965 Congo Crisis
  • September 14, 1960 First Mobutu coup d'état
  • 1963 – 1965 Kwilu rebellion
  • 1963 – 1965 Simba Rebellion
  • 1963 – 1966 Kanyarwanda War
  • November 25, 1965 Second Mobutu coup d'état
• 1960 – 1962 South Kasai's secession
  • August – September 1960 Invasion of South Kasai
  • September – October 1962 Coup d'état of South Kasai
• 1963 – ongoing Katanga insurgency
• 1966 - 1967 Stanleyville mutinies
• 1977 Shaba I
• 1978 Shaba II
• 1987 — ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• September — October 1991 1991 Zaire unrest
• November 13, 1996 — ongoing Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
• 1996 – 1997 First Congo War
  • October 1996 – May 1997 Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War
  • April 9, 1997 Capture of Lubumbashi
  • March 13 – 15, 1997 Battle of Kinsangani (1997)
• 1998 – 2003 Second Congo War

  

  Belligerents of the Second Congo War

  • August 4 – 30, 1998 Operation Kitona
  • June 5 – 10, 2000 Six-Day War (2000)
  • October 2002 – January 2003 Effacer le tableau
• 1999 – ongoing Ituri Conflict
• 2004 – ongoing Kivu Conflict
  • 26 October 2008 – 23 March 2009 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
  • 20 January 2009 – 27 February 2009 2009 Eastern Congo offensive
  • 4 April 2012 – 7 November 2013 M23 rebellion
  • June 30 – August 10, 2014 2014 North Kivu offensive
  • June 1, 2017 – December 26, 2017 2017 CNPSC offensive
  • March 27, 2022 – present M23 offensive (2022–present)
• June 11, 2004 2004 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt
• 2009 Dongo conflict
• February 27, 2011 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt
• 2013 – 2018 Batwa-Luba clashes
• December 30, 2013 December 2013 Kinshasa attacks
• 2016 – 2019 Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• February 8, 2022 2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état allegations
• 2022 – present Western DR Congo clashes
• May 19, 2024 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt

Equatorial Guinea

• 3–18 August 1979 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état
• 7 March 2004 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt
• December 2017 2017 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt

Gabon

• February 17 – 19, 1964 1964 Gabonese coup d'état
• January 7, 2019 2019 Gabonese coup attempt
• August 30, 2023 2023 Gabonese coup d'état

São Tomé and Príncipe

• February 3, 1953 Batepá Massacre
• March 8, 1988 1988 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt
• August 15 – 22, 1995 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt
• July 16 – 23, 2003 2003 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt
• November 24 – 25, 2022 2022 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt

Horn of Africa

Main article: Conflicts in the Horn of Africa

Djibouti

• 1991 – 1994 Djiboutian Civil War
• 1994 – present FRUD insurgency
• 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict

Eritrea

Italian Eritrea

• 1895–1896 First Italo-Ethiopia War
  • 13 January 1895 Battle of Coatit
• 3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War
  • 3 October 1935 – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia

Italian East Africa

• 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 East African Campaign
      • 5 February 1941 – 1 April 1941 Battle of Keren

Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea

• 1961 – 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
  • 1 September 1991 Battle of Adal
  • 17 September 1976 - 22 March 1977 Siege of Nakfa
  • 1977 – 1978 Battle of Massawa (1977)
  • September 1977 - August 1978 Siege of Barentu
  • 15 February – 5 July 1982 Red Star Campaign
  • 17–20 March 1988 Battle of Afabet
  • 8–17 February 1990 Battle of Massawa (1990)

Ethiopian Empire

• February 1972 – 13 October 1974 First Eritrean Civil War

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia

• February 1980 – 24 March 1981 Second Eritrean Civil War

State of Eritrea

• 1995 – 2018 Second Afar insurgency
• 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
• 1998 – 2018 Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
  • 1998 – 2000 Eritrean–Ethiopian War
    • 6 May – 17 June 1998 1998 Eritrean offensive into Ethiopia
    • February 1999 February 1999 Eritrean–Ethiopian aerial clashes
    • May 29, 2000 Operation Aider
  • 2010 2010 Eritrean–Ethiopian border skirmish
  • 2016 Battle of Tsorona
• 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
• 21 January 2013 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny
• 2020 – 2022 Tigray War

Ethiopia

Axumite Empire

• c. 300 CE Ezana of Axum is said to have launched several military campaigns and destroyed the Kingdom of Kush
• 525 Conquest of the Himyarite Kingdom by Axum
• 570–578 Aksumite-Persian wars
  • Battle of Hadhramaut
  • Siege of Sanaa (570)
• c. 900 King of Aksum Degna Djan led military expeditions as far south as Ennarea
• c. 960 Axumite Empire is said to have been destroyed by Gudit of the Kingdom of Simien

Makhzumi Dynasty

• c. 1270 Makhzumi Sultan assisted Yekuno Amlak rebellion against Zagwe dynasty
• c. 1285 the Conquest of Makhzumi by the Ifat Sultanate

Ethiopian Empire

• 1314–1344 Conquests of the Emperor Amda Seyon I
  • c. 1316 Early military actions
    • c. 1316 Emperor Amda Seyon I successfully campaigned against the Muslim kingdoms of Damot and Hadiya
  • c. 1320 Rebellion of Haqq ad-Din I
  • c. 1329 Northern campaigns
  • c. 1332 Later campaigns
  • c. 1320–1415 Abyssinian wars against the Sultanate of Ifat
• 1529–1543 Ethiopian-Adal War
  • March 1529 Battle of Shimbra Kure
  • 1531 Battle of Antukyah
  • 28 October 1531 Battle of Amba Sel
  • 24 April 1541 Battle of Sahart
  • 2 February 1542 Battle of Baçente
  • 4–16 April 1542 Battle of Jarte
  • August 1542 Battle of the Hill of the Jews
  • 28 August 1542 Battle of Wofla
  • 21 February 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
• 1769–1855 Zemene Mesafint
• December 1867 – May 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia
• 12 January 1872 – 10 March 1889 Conquests of Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
  • 1875–1881 War with Ottoman Egypt
  • 1885 War with Sudan
• 1886–1887 war with Emirate of Harar
  • October 1886 Battle of Hirna
  • 9 January 1887 Battle of Chelenqo
• 1881–1899 Mahdist War
  • 14 October 1888 Battle of Guté Dili
• 1895–1896 First Italo-Ethiopia War
  • 1 March 1896 Battle of Adwa
  • 7 December 1895 Battle of Amba Alagi
  • 13 January 1895 Battle of Coatit
• 3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopia War
  • 3 October – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia
  • 15 December 1935 – 20 January 1936 Ethiopian Christmas Offensive
  • 12–20 January 1936 Battle of Genale Doria
  • 20–24 January 1936 First Battle of Tembien
  • 1–19 February 1936 Battle of Amba Aradam
  • 27–29 February 1936 Second Battle of Tembien
  • 29 February – 2 March 1936 Battle of Shire
  • 31 March 1936 Battle of Maychew
  • 14–25 April 1936 Battle of the Ogaden
  • 26 April – 5 May 1936 March of the Iron Will
• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 East African Campaign
• 13 – 17 December 1960 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt
• 1961 – 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
  • 1 September 1991 Battle of Adal
  • 17 September 1976 - 22 March 1977 Siege of Nakfa
  • 1977 – 1978 Battle of Massawa (1977)
  • September 1977 - August 1978 Siege of Barentu
  • 15 February – 5 July 1982 Red Star Campaign
  • 17–20 March 1988 Battle of Afabet
  • 8–17 February 1990 Battle of Massawa (1990)
• 1963 – 1970 Bale revolt
• 1963 – 1965 1963–1965 Ogaden rebellion
• 1964 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• 12 January – 12 September 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
• 1974 – 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
  • 12 September 1974 1974 Ethiopian coup d'état

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia

• 12 September 1974 – 28 May 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
  • 23 November 1974 Massacre of the Sixty
  • 23 September 1976 – 22 March 1978 Red Terror (Ethiopia)
  • 22 June 1988 Hawzen massacre (1988)
  • 16 May 1989 1989 Ethiopian coup attempt
  • 28 May 1991 Fall of the Derg regime
• 13 July 1977 – 15 March 1978 Ogaden War
  • 13 July – October 1977 Somali invasion of Ogaden
  • July 1977 – August 1977 Battle of Dire Dawa
  • September 1977 – 5 March 1978 Battle of Jijiga
  • October 1977 – 27 January 1978 Battle of Harar
• 1982 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

• 1973 – ongoing Oromo conflict
  • 2018 – present OLA insurgency
    • 18 March 2021 – 18 April 2021 2021 Ataye clashes
    • 29 March – 19 April 2022 2022 North Shewa clashes
  • 23 – 28 October 2019 October 2019 Ethiopian clashes
  • 30 June – 2 July 2020 Hachalu Hundessa riots
• 1992 – 2018 Insurgency in Ogaden
  • 2007 – 2008 2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden
• 1994 – present Ethnic violence in Konso
• 1994 – present Ethnic violence against Amaro Koore
• 1998 – 2018 Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
  • 1998 – 2000 Eritrean–Ethiopian War
    • 6 May – 17 June 1998 1998 Eritrean offensive into Ethiopia
    • February 1999 February 1999 Eritrean–Ethiopian aerial clashes
    • May 29, 2000 Operation Aider
  • 2010 2010 Eritrean–Ethiopian border skirmish
  • 2016 Battle of Tsorona
• Early to mid 2000s – present Gambela conflict
• 2002 – ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
• 2016 – 2018 Oromo–Somali clashes
• 2018 – present Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)
  • 22 June 2019 Amhara Region coup attempt
  • 2019 – 2022 Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
  • 2020 – present Afar–Somali clashes
  • 2020 – 2022 Tigray War
    • 3 – 4 November 2020 Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia)
    • 9 – 11 November 2020 Battle of Humera
    • 17 – 28 November 2020 Mekelle offensive
    • 11 June 2021 – 6 July 2021 Operation Alula
    • 31 October – 1 December 2021 TDF–OLA joint offensive
    • 26 November – 23 December 2021 ENDF National Unity Offensive
    • 14 – 18 October 2022 Battle of Shire (2022)
  • 2020 – 2022 Al-Fashaga conflict
  • 2022 2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia
  • 2023 – present War in Amhara

Somalia

Ajuuraan State

• 1580s Ajuran-Portuguese wars

Italian East Africa

• 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 East African Campaign
      • 3–19 August 1940 Italian conquest of British Somaliland

Somali Republic

• 1961 1961 revolt in Somalia
• 21 October 1969 1969 Somali coup d'état

Somali Democratic Republic

• 1977 – 1978 Ogaden War
  • 13 July – October 1977 Somali invasion of Ogaden
  • July 1977 – August 1977 Battle of Dire Dawa
  • September 1977 – 5 March 1978 Battle of Jijiga
  • October 1977 – 27 January 1978 Battle of Harar
• 1978 – 1991 Somali Rebellion
  • 9 April 1978 1978 Somali coup attempt
  • 1981 – 1991 Somaliland War of Independence
    • 1987 – 1989 Isaaq genocide
• June–August 1982 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War

Federal Republic of Somalia

• 1991 – ongoing Somali Civil War
  • 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993 Unified Task Force
    • December 1992 – May 19 Operation Deliverance
  • 26 March 1993 – 28 March 1995 United Nations Operation in Somalia II
    • 5 June 1993 June 1993 attack on Pakistani military in Somalia
    • 2 July 1993 Battle of Checkpoint Pasta
    • 12 July 1993 Bloody Monday raid
    • 22 August 1993 – 13 October 1993 Operation Gothic Serpent
      • 3–4 October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
  • 1998 – ongoing Puntland-Somaliland dispute
    • 15 October 2007 Battle of Las Anod (2007)
    • 8 January 2018 Battle of Tukaraq
  • 4 June – 20 December 2006 2006 Islamic Courts Union offensive
    • 7 May – 11 July 2006 Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
  • 20 December 2006 – 30 January 2009 Somalia War (2006–2009)
    • 20–26 December 2006 Battle of Baidoa
    • 23–25 December 2006 Battle of Bandiradley
    • 24–25 December 2006 Battle of Beledweyne (2006)
    • 27 December 2006 Battle of Jowhar
    • 28 December 2006 Fall of Mogadishu
    • 31 December 2006 – 1 January 2007 Battle of Jilib
    • 1 January 2007 Fall of Kismayo
    • 5 – 12 January 2007 Battle of Ras Kamboni
    • 21 March – 26 April 2007 Battle of Mogadishu (March–April 2007)
    • 8–16 November 2007 Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007)
    • 19–20 April 2008 Battle of Mogadishu (2008)
    • 31 May – 3 June 2007 Battle of Bargal (2007)
    • 1–26 July 2008 Battle of Beledweyne (2008)
    • 8 July 2008 – 26 January 2009 Siege of Baidoa
    • 20–22 August 2008 Battle of Kismayo (2008)
  • 2000 – ongoing Piracy off the coast of Somalia
    • 18 March 2006 Action of 18 March 2006
    • 29 October 2007 Dai Hong Dan incident
    • 8 December 2008 – ongoing Operation Atalanta
      • 16 September 2008 Carré d'As IV incident
      • 9 April 2009 April 2009 raid off Somalia
    • 17 August 2009 – ongoing Operation Ocean Shield
      • 30 March 2010 Action of 30 March 2010
      • 18–21 January 2011 MV Beluga Nomination incident
    • 6 May 2010 MV Moscow University hijacking
    • 12 January 2012 Attack on Spanish oiler Patiño
  • 31 January 2009 – ongoing Somali Civil War (2009–present)
    • 22 February 2009 2009 African Union base bombings in Mogadishu
    • 24–25 February 2009 Battle of South Mogadishu
    • 7 May – 1 October 2009 Battle of Mogadishu (2009)
    • 11 May – 1 October 2009 Battle for Central Somalia (2009)
    • 5 June 2009 Battle of Wabho
    • 18 June 2009 2009 Beledweyne bombing
    • 1–7 October 2009 Battle of Kismayo (2009)
    • 10–14 January 2010 Battle of Beledweyne (2010)
    • May–July 2010 Ayn clashes
    • 1 May 2010 Mogadishu bombings
    • 20 July 2010 2010 Kenya–Al-Shabaab border clash
    • 8 August – 17 October 2010 Galgala campaign
    • 23 August 2010 – 6 August 2011 Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
    • 27 April 2011 Battle of Gedo
    • 4 October 2011 Mogadishu bombing
    • 16 October 2011 – June 2012 Operation Linda Nchi
      • 28 September – 1 October 2012 Battle of Kismayo (2012)
    • 11 January 2013 Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt
  • 2001 – 2021 War on Terrorism
    • 7 October 2002 – ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
      • 3 March 2008 Dobley airstrike
      • 1 May 2008 Dhusamareb airstrike
      • 8–12 April 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking
      • 14 September 2009 2009 Baraawe raid
      • 25 January 2012 Rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted
  • 2023 – present Las Anod conflict (2023–present)
  • 2024 – present Constitutional crisis in Somalia
    • 11 December 2024 – present Jubaland crisis

Indian Ocean islands

Comoros

• May 13, 1978 1978 Comorian coup d'état
• September 28 – October 3, 1995 Operation Azalee
• April 30, 1999 1999 Comorian coup d'état
• March 25, 2008 Invasion of Anjouan

Madagascar

• 1883–1885 First Madagascar expedition
• 1894–1895 Second Madagascar expedition
• 1942 Battle of Madagascar (World War II)
• 1947 – 1949 Malagasy Uprising
• 26 January – 7 November 2009 2009 Malagasy political crisis
• 2009 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny

Mauritius

• August 20, 1810 – August 27, 1810 Battle of Grand Port

Seychelles

• 4–5 June 1977 1977 Seychelles coup d'état
• 25 November 1981 1981 Seychelles coup attempt

North Africa

Main article: List of conflicts in North Africa

Algeria

Main article: List of conflicts in Algeria

• 264 BCE – 146 BCE Punic Wars
• 112 BCE – 106 BCE Jugurthine War
• 420s Vandals conquer the Roman province
• June 533 – March 534 Vandalic War
• 544 – Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 647 – 709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 1518 Fall of Tlemcen
• 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers
• September 14, 1769 – May 16, 1772 Danish–Algerian War
• 1830 – 1847 French conquest of Algeria
• 1835 – 1903 Pacification of Algeria
• June 10, 1940 – May 13, 1943 North African Campaign (World War II)
• May 8, 1945 Sétif and Guelma massacre
• 1954 – 1962 Algerian War
  • 1 November 1954 Toussaint Rouge
  • 18 January 1955 Battle of Douar Souadek
  • 18 January – 24 February 1955 Operation Véronique
  • September 1955 First Battle of El Djorf
  • 20 August 1955 Battle of Philippeville
  • April 1956 — 1 October 1956 Operation Blue Bird
  • 30 September 1956 — 24 September 1957 Battle of Algiers
  • 23 May 1957 — 25 May 1957 Battle of Agounennda
  • 4 – 12 August 1957 Battle of Bouzegza
  • 21 January 1958 – 28 May 1958 Battle of the borders (Algerian war)
  • 13 May 1958 May 1958 crisis
  • 28–31 May 1958 Battle of Bab El Bekkouche
  • July 1959 — March 1960 Operation Jumelles
  • 21 April 1961 — 26 April 1961 Algiers putsch
  • 23 March 1962 — 6 April 1962 Battle of Bab El Oued
• 5 July – 9 September 1962 1962 Algerian crisis
• September 25, 1963 – February 20, 1964 Sand War
• September 29, 1963 – October 1964 Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria
• 19 June 1965 1965 Algerian coup d'état
• 14 – 16 December 1967 1967 Algerian coup attempt
• 1970 – ongoing Western Sahara conflict
• 1991 – 2002 Algerian Civil War
  • 11 January 1992 1992 Algerian coup d'état
  • 3 April 1997 — 4 April 1997 Thalit massacre
  • 22 April 1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre
  • 16 June 1997 Daïat Labguer (M'sila) Massacre
  • 27 July 1997 Si Zerrouk massacre
  • 3 August 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre
  • 20 August 1997 — August 21, 1997 Souhane massacre
  • 26 August 1997 Beni Ali massacre
  • 28 August 1997 Rais massacre
  • 5 September 1997 — 6 September 1997 Beni Messous massacre
  • 19 September 1997 — 20 September 1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre
  • 22 September 1997 — 23 September 1997 Bentalha massacre
  • 23 December 1997 — 24 December 1997 Sid El-Antri massacre
  • 30 December 1997 Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • 16–19 January 2013 In Amenas hostage crisis

Egypt

Main article: List of conflicts in Egypt

• 1803–1807 Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
• 1881–1899 Mahdist War
• June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943: North African Campaign, part of World War II
• 1952 Battle of Ismailia (1952)
• 1952 1952 Egyptian revolution
• 1956 Suez Crisis
• 1967 Six-Day War
• 1970 War of Attrition
• 1973 Yom Kippur War
• 1977 Libyan–Egyptian War
• 1981 – present Terrorism in Egypt
  • 2011 – 2023 Sinai insurgency
  • 2013 – ongoing Terrorism in Egypt (2013–present)
• 1986 1986 Egyptian conscripts riot
• 2011 – 2014 Egyptian crisis (2011–14)
  • January 25 – February 11, 2011 Egyptian Revolution
  • 12 February 2011 – 30 June 2012 2011-2012 Egypt protests
  • November 22, 2012 – July 3, 2013 2012–13 Egyptian protests
  • June 28, 2013 – July 3, 2013 June 2013 Egyptian protests
  • July 3, 2013 2013 Egyptian coup d'état
  • 3 July 2013 – 8 June 2014 Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
    • 8 July 2013 Republican Guard headquarters clashes
    • 19 September 2013 Raid on Kerdasa
    • 19 July 2014 2014 Farafra ambush
• 4–14 April 2014 2014 Aswan tribal clashes

Libya

Main article: List of conflicts in Libya

• c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC Ramesses II's Campaigns in Libya
• 264 BC – 146 BC Punic Wars
• 112 BC – 106 BC Jugurthine War
• 420s Vandal conquer the Roman province
• 461 - 468 Vandal War (461–468)
• June 533 – March 534 Vandalic War
• 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 647 – 709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• Ottoman–Habsburg wars
  • 1551 Siege of Tripoli
• 1711 1711 Karamanli coup
• 1793 – 1795 Tripolitanian civil war
• 1797 Action of 16 May 1797
• 1801 – 05 First Barbary War
• 1825 Sardinian-Tripolitanian war of 1825
• 1911 – 43 Libyan resistance movement
• 1911 – 12 Italo-Turkish War
• June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943 Western Desert Campaign, part of World War II
• 1 September 1969 1969 Libyan revolution
• 7 December 1969 1969 Libyan coup attempt
• 1970 Black Prince conspiracy
• 21 – 24 July 1977 Egyptian-Libyan War
• 29 January 1978 – 11 September 1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict
  • 16 December 1986 – 11 September 1987 Toyota War
• August 19, 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
• May 8, 1984 Bab al-Azizia siege
• March 24, 1986 Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986)
• 15 April 1986 1986 United States bombing of Libya
• 4 January 1989 1989 air battle near Tobruk
• 22 October 1993 1993 Libyan coup attempt
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
• November 2008 2008 Kufra conflict
• 2011 – present Libyan crisis
  • 2011 First Libyan Civil War
    • February 15 — 20, 2011 First Battle of Benghazi
    • February 17 — 25, 2011 Tripoli protests and clashes (February 2011)
    • February 18 — May 15, 2011 Battle of Misrata (2011)
    • February 24 — March 10, 2011 First Battle of Zawiya
    • March 1 — August 18, 2011 2011 Nafusa Mountains campaign
      • April 21, 2011 Battle of Wazzin
      • August 13 — 18, 2011 Battle of Gharyan
    • March 2, 2011 First Battle of Brega
    • March 19 — October 31, 2011 2011 military intervention in Libya
      • March 19 — October 31, 2011 Operation Ellamy
      • March 19 — 31, 2,011 C.E. Opération Harmattan
      • March 19 — November 1, 2011 Operation Mobile
      • March 19 — 31, 2011 Operation Odyssey Dawn
      • March 23 — October 31, 2011 Operation Unified Protector
  • 2011 – 2014 Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014)
    • January 23 — 25, 2012 2012 Bani Walid uprising
    • February 12 — July 1, 2012 2012 Kufra conflict
    • March 25 — 31, 2012 2012 Sabha conflict
    • June 4, 2012 2012 Tripoli airport clashes
    • June 11 — 18, 2012 2012 Zintan clashes
    • September 9. — October 26, 2012 Siege of Bani Walid (2012)
    • September 11 — 12, 2012 2012 Benghazi attack
    • June 8 — 15, 2013 2013 Benghazi conflict
    • February 14 — May 2014 2014 Libyan coup attempts
  • 2014 – 2020 Second Libyan Civil War
    • July 13 — August 23, 2014 Battle of Tripoli Airport
    • October 5, 2014 — April 21, 2016 ISIL takeover of Derna
    • October 15, 2014 – December 30, 2017 Battle of Benghazi (2014–2017)
    • January 27, 2015 2015 Corinthia Hotel attack
    • February 8 — 9, 2015 Fall of Nofaliya (2015)
    • February 12, 2015 – October 26, 2020 Egyptian intervention in Libya (2015–2020)
    • 13 November 2015 – 30 October 2019 U.S. intervention in Libya (2015–2019)
    • 14 October 2016 – 14 November 2018 Western Libya clashes (2016–2018)
    • March 3 – 14 2017 Gulf of Sidra Offensive (2017)
    • January – April 2019 Southern Libya offensive
    • 4 April 2019 – 5 June 2020 Western Libya campaign
    • 5 January 2020 – present 2020 Turkish intervention in Libya
    • June 6 – 11, 2020 Central Libya offensive
  • March – December 2022 2022 Tripoli clashes
  • 14 – 15 August 2023 2023 Tripoli clashes

Morocco

Main article: List of conflicts in Morocco

• 264 BCE – 146 BCE Punic Wars
• 112 BCE – 106 BCE Jugurthine War
• 420s Vandals conquer the Roman province
• June 533 – March 534 Vandalic War
• 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 647–709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 739–743 Berber Revolt
• 1130–1147 Almoravid-Almohad War
• 1215–1269 Almohad-Marinid War
• 1125–1269 Almohad-Marinid War
• 1299–1370 Morocco-Tlemcen conflict
• 1415–1578 Moroccan-Portuguese conflict
• 1465 Moroccan Revolt
• 1527–1554 Wattassid-Saadian War
• September 1497 Conquest of Melilla
• 1554–1830 Moroccan-Turkish border conflict
• 1577 A Moroccan expedition occupied Taghaza
• 1582 A first expedition to Timbuktu was defeated
• 1591 A Moroccan expeditionary force defeated the Songhay army at Tondibi and conquered Gao, Timbuktu and Djenné
• 1603–1627 War of Succession
• 1613–1666 Civil War
• 1844 First Franco-Moroccan War
• 1859 Spanish-Moroccan War
• 1893 Rif War
• 1909 Rif War
• 1911–1912 Second Franco-Moroccan War
• 1920–1926 Rif War
• 1914–1921 Zaian War
• 1942 North African Campaign
• 1957 – 1958 Ifni War
• 1958 – 1959 Rif Revolt
• 1963 – 1964 Sand War
• 1970 – present Western Sahara conflict
  • 1973 – 1976 Sahrawi insurgency
  • 1975 Green March
  • 1975 – 1991 Western Sahara War
  • 2020 – present Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)
• July 10, 1971 1971 Moroccan coup attempt
• August 16, 1972 1972 Moroccan coup attempt
• April 11, 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 6 February 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
• July 11 – 18, 2002 Perejil Island crisis
• August 29, 2012 2012 Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera incident

Sudan

Nubia

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

Kingdom of Kerma

• 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

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

Kingdom of Kush

• 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

• 1312 Mamluk Invasion

Sultanate of Darfur

• 1722–1786 Civil War

Egyptian Eyalet

• February 1820 – October 1822 Invasion of Libya and Sudan

Khedivate of Egypt

• 1899–1901 Rabih War
  • 1874 Rabih az-Zubayr conquered the Sultanate of Darfur
• 1881–1899 The Mahdist War
  • 3–5 November 1883 Battle of El Obeid
  • 4–29 February 1884 First and Second Battles of El Teb
  • 13 March 1884 Battle of Tamai
  • 13 March 1884 – 26 January 1885 Siege of Khartoum
  • 17 January 1885 Battle of Abu Klea
  • 10 February 1885 Battle of Kirbekan
  • 22 March 1885 Battle of Tofrek
  • 30 December 1885 Battle of Ginnis
  • 20 December 1888 Battle of Suakin
  • 9–10 March 1889 Battle of Gallabat
  • 17 July 1894 Battle of Kassala
  • 7 June 1896 Battle of Ferkeh
  • 8 April 1898 Battle of Atbara
  • 2 September 1898 Battle of Omdurman
  • 25 November 1899 Battle of Umm Diwaykarat

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

• 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 World War I
  • 29 October 1914 – 30 October 1918 Middle Eastern theatre
    • 1914–1918 North African theatre
      • 19 November 1915 – February 1917 Senussi Campaign

• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • 10 June 1940 – 27 November 27 1941 East African Campaign
      • 3–19 August 1940 Italian conquest of British Somaliland
      • 5 February 1941 – 1 April 1941 Battle of Keren
      • 4–19 May 1941 Battle of Amba Alagi
      • 13–27 November 1941 Battle of Gondar

Republic of the Sudan

• 18 August 1955 – 27 March 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
  • 17 November 1958 1958 Sudanese coup d'état
  • 25 May 1969 1969 Sudanese coup d'état

Republic of the Sudan

• 5 June 1983 – 9 January 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
  • 6 April 1985 1985 Sudanese coup d'état
  • 30 June 1989 1989 Sudanese coup d'état
• 1987 – present Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• 20 August 1998 Operation Infinite Reach
• 2003 – 2020 War in Darfur
  • 10 – 12 May 2008 2008 Omdurman attack
• 2006 Battle of Malakal
• 2008 – ongoing Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 12 June 2009 2009 Sobat River ambush
  • 23 May 2010 2010 South Darfur clash
• January – February 2009 2009 Sudan airstrikes
• 2011 – 2020 Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
• 2012 Heglig Crisis
• 19 December 2018 – 10 October 2019 Sudanese Revolution
  • 11 April 2019 2019 Sudanese coup d'état
• 2021 Sudanese coup d'état 2021 Sudanese coup d'état
• 2022 – 2023 Blue Nile clashes (2022–2023)
• 2023 – present Sudanese Civil War

Tunisia

Carthaginian Empire

• 264–146 BCE Punic Wars
  • 264–241 BCE First Punic War
    • 255 BCE Siege of Aspis
    • 255 BCE Siege of Adys
    • 255 BCE Battle of Tunis
  • 240–238 BCE Mercenary War
    • Spring 240 BCE Battle of Utica
    • Autumn 240 BCE Battle of the Bagradas River
    • Autumn 240 BCE Hamilcar's victory with Navaras
    • 238 BCE Battle of "The Saw"
    • 238 BCE Siege of Tunis
  • 218–201 BCE Second Punic War
    • 203 BCE Battle of Utica
    • 203 BCE Battle of the Great Plains
    • 19 October 202 BCE Battle of Zama
  • 149–146 BCE Third Punic War
    • 147 BCE Battle of the Port of Carthage
    • 147 BCE Battle of Nepheris
    • c. 149 BCE – Spring 146 BCE Battle of Carthage

Kingdom of Numidia

• 112–106 BCE Jugurthine War
  • 111–104 BCE Battle of Thala
  • 110 BCE Battle of Suthul
  • 108 BCE Battle of the Muthul

Roman Province of Africa

• 238 CE Battle of Carthage
• 429 CE - 432 Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
• 439 CE Vandal War (439-442): Genseric broke the treaty between the Vandals and the Romans when he invaded the province of Africa Proconsularis and laid siege to Carthage.
• 461 CE - 468 Vandal War (461–468)
  • 468 CE Battle of Cap Bon

Vandal Kingdom

• June 533 – Mach 534 Vandalic War
  • 13 September 533 Battle of Ad Decimum
  • 15 December 533 Battle of Tricamarum

Byzantine Praetorian Prefecture of Africa

• 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

• 647–709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
  • 698 Battle of Carthage

Aghlabids

• 824–836 Military mutiny
• 879–880 Invasion of al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun

Fatimid Caliphate

• 909 Fatimid conquest of Ifriqiya from the Aghlabids
• 943–947 Rebellion of Abu Yazid

Almohad Caliphate

• 1160 Ifriqiya conquered and annexed by the Almohads
• 1171–1172 Conquest of North Africa and Nubia by the Ayyubid Dynasty

Ayyubid Dynasty

• 1171–1172 Conquest of North Africa and Nubias by the Ayyubid Dynasty

Hafsid Dynasty

• 1269 Eighth Crusade

Ottoman Tunisia

• 1526–1791 Ottoman-Habsburg wars
  • 16 August 1534 Conquest of Tunis
  • June 1535 Conquest of Tunis
  • 12 July – 13 September 1574 Conquest of Tunis

French Protectorate of Tunisia

• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • 10 June 1940 – 13 May 1943 North African Campaign
      • 17 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 Tunisia Campaign
        • 10 November – 25 December 1942 Run for Tunis
        • February – May 1943 Battle of Sedjenane
        • 14–17 February 1943 Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
        • 19–25 February 1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass
        • 6 March 1943 Battle of Medenine
        • 16–27 March 1943 Operation Pugilist
        • 23 March – 3 April 1943 Battle of El Guettar
        • 5–27 April 1943 Operation Flax
        • 6–7 April 1943 Battle of Wadi Akarit
        • 27 April – 1 May 1943 Battle of Hill 609
        • 6–12 May 1943 Operation Vulcan
        • 8–13 May 1943 Operation Retribution

Kingdom of Tunisia

• 1952 – 1956 Tunisian Independence movement

Republic of Tunisia

• 1961 Bizerte Crisis
• 1980 1980 Gafsa Uprising
• 1 October 1985 Operation Wooden Leg
• 7 November 1987 1987 Tunisian coup d'état
• 2002 – present Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 3 January 2007 Soliman Shooting
  • 2012 – 2019 Chaambi Operations
• 18 December 2010 – 14 January 2011 Tunisian Revolution
• 3 – 4 February 2014 Raoued Operation
• 2015 – 2022 ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
• 25 July 2021 2021 Tunisian self-coup

Southern Africa

Angola

• 1961 – 1974 Angolan War of Independence
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War

  

  Maximum extent of South African and UNITA operations in Angola and Zambia during the South African Border War

  • 4 May 1978 Battle of Cassinga
• 1975 – present Cabinda War
• 1975 – 2002 Angolan Civil War
  • 27 May 1977 1977 Angolan coup attempt
  • 14 August 1987 – 23 March 1988 Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

Lesotho

• 1880–1881 Basotho Gun War
• 30 January 1970 1970 Lesotho coup d'état
• 1974 – 1990 BCP Insurgency
• 20 January 1986 1986 Lesotho coup d'état
• 30 April 1991 1991 Lesotho coup d'état
• 17 August 1994 1994 Lesotho coup d'état
• 22 September 1998 – May 1999 South African intervention in Lesotho
• 30 August 2014 2014 Lesotho political crisis

Malawi

• August 3, 1914 – November 1918 World War I
• 3 March 1959 – 16 June 1960 Nyasaland emergency of 1959
  • 3 – 5 March 1959 Operation Sunrise
• 1992 – 1993 Operation Bwezani

Mozambique

• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• 1964 – 1974 Mozambican War of Independence
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
• 1977 – 1992 Mozambican Civil War
• 2013 – 2021 RENAMO insurgency (2013–2021)
• 2017 – ongoing Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

Namibia

• 1904–1907 Herero Genocide
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
  • September 15, 1914 – February 4, 1915 Maritz Rebellion
• August 26, 1966 – March 21, 1990 South African Border War
• 1994 – 1999 Caprivi conflict

South Africa

See also: List of battles in South Africa

• May 18, 1803 – November 20, 1815 Napoleonic Wars
• 1817–1819 Ndwandwe–Zulu War
• 1830s–1840s Great Trek
• February 17, 1838 Weenen Massacre
• January 11, 1879 – July 4, 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
• 1779–1879 Xhosa Wars
• December 20, 1880 – March 23, 1881 First Boer War
• October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 Second Boer War
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
  • September 15, 1914 – February 4, 1915 Maritz Rebellion
• September 4, 1939 – May 7, 1945 World War II
• 1948 – 1994 Internal resistance to apartheid
  • 1950 Witzieshoek revolt
  • 21 March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre
  • 16 June 1976 Soweto Uprising
  • 3 September 1984 Vaal uprising
  • 1986 – 1987 Ciskei-Transkei conflict
  • 30 December 1987 1987 Transkei coup d'état
  • 4 March 1990 1990 Ciskei coup d'état
  • 5 April 1990 1990 Venda coup d'état
  • 9 August 1991 Battle of Ventersdorp
  • 7 September 1992 Bisho massacre
  • 25 July 1993 Saint James Church massacre
  • 30 December 1993 Heidelberg Tavern massacre
  • 1994 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis
  • 28 March 1994 Shell House massacre
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War

Eswatini

• October 11, 1899 – May 31, 1902 Second Boer War

Zambia

• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
• 1 July 1990 1990 Zambian coup attempt
• 28 October 1997 1997 Zambian coup attempt

Zimbabwe

• October 1893 – January 1894 First Matabele War
• March 1896 – Second Matabele War
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
• 1980 1980 Entumbane clashes
• 1981 1981 Entumbane uprising
• 1983 – 1987 Gukurahundi
• November 14 – 21, 2017 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état

West Africa

Benin

• 1724–1727 Abomey (Dahomey) conquests
• 1726–1730 First Oyo-Dahomey War
• 1738–1748 Oyo Conquest of Dahomey
• 1764 Second Ashanti-Akim War
• 1768 Yoruba-Ashanti War
• 1851 First Dahomean-Abeokuta War
• 1864 Second Dahomean-Abeokuta War
• 1889–1894 France conquers Dahomey
• October 28, 1963 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état
• October 26, 1972 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état
• January 17, 1977 1977 Benin coup attempt

Burkina Faso

• 3 January 1966 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 8 February 1974 1974 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 25 November 1980 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 7 November 1982 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 28 February 1983 1983 Upper Voltan coup attempt
• 4 August 1983 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 1985 Agacher Strip War
• 15 October 1987 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• 18 September 1989 1989 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
    • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
    • 2015 – present Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
      • 2 March 2018 2018 Ouagadougou attacks
• 16 – 23 September 2015 2015 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• 8 October 2016 2016 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• 23 – 24 January 2022 January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• 30 September 2022 September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• 26 September 2023 2023 Burkina Faso coup attempt

Côte d'Ivoire

• 1883–1898 Mandingo Wars
• December 24, 1999 1999 Ivorian coup d'état
• January 7 – 8, 2001 2001 Ivorian coup attempt
• 2002 – 2007 First Ivorian Civil War
  • September 19, 2002 2002 Ivorian coup attempt
• September 22, 2002 – January 21, 2015 Opération Licorne
• 2004 2004 French–Ivorian clashes
• 2010 – 2011 Second Ivorian Civil War
• June 12, 2012 2012 Ivorian coup attempt
• May 6 – 16, 2017 2017 Ivory Coast mutinies

Gambia

• 30 July – 4 August 1981 1981 Gambian coup attempt
• 22 July 1994 1994 Gambian coup d'état
• 30 December 2014 2014 Gambian coup attempt
• 9 December 2016 – 21 January 2017 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis
  • 2017 – present ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia
• 20 December 2022 2022 Gambian coup attempt

Ghana

Main article: List of conflicts in Ghana

• 1620–1654 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1664–1665 Anglo-Dutch Wars
• 1823–1831 Anglo-Ashanti wars
• 1900 War of the Golden Stool
• February 28, 1948 1948 Accra Riots
• February 24, 1966 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état
• April 17, 1967 Operation Guitar Boy
• June 4, 1979 June 4th revolution in Ghana
• December 31, 1981 1981 Ghanaian coup d'état
• 1994 – 2015 Konkomba–Nanumba conflict
• 2002 Yendi conflict
• 2019 – Present Gonja-Mamprusi conflict
• 2020 – Present Western Togoland Rebellion

Guinea

• 22 November 1970 Operation Green Sea
• 3 April 1984 1984 Guinean coup d'état
• February 2 – 3, 1996 1996 Guinean coup attempt
• 2000 – 2001 RFDG Insurgency
• 2013 2013 Guinea clashes
• 5 September 2021 2021 Guinean coup d'état

Guinea-Bissau

• 23 January 1963 – 10 September 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
• 14 November 1980 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 1998 – 1999 Guinea-Bissau Civil War
  • 7 June 1998 1998 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• 14 September 2003 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 26 December 2011 2011 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• 12 April 2012 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 1 February 2022 2022 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• 30 November 2023 – 1 December 2023 2023 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt

Liberia

• October 1871 1871 Liberian coup d'état
• April 12, 1980 1980 Liberian coup d'état
• November 12, 1985 1985 Liberian coup attempt
• September 15, 1994 1994 Liberian coup attempt
• 1989 – 1996 First Liberian Civil War
• 1998 1998 Monrovia clashes
• 1999 – 2003 Second Liberian Civil War

Mali

Main article: List of conflicts in Mali

• 647–709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 1075 Almoravid conquest of the Ghana Empire
• c. 1230–1250 Early imperial expansion of the Mali Empire
• 1400 The Sandaki usurpation and second Mossi raid
• 1433 The Tuareg invasion
• c. 1460s Songhai conquered Mema
• 1810–1818 Mopti Jihad
• 1848–1864 Initial conquests of El Hadj Umar Tall Jihad
• 1883–1886 Mandingo Wars
• 1962 – 1964 Tuareg rebellion (1962–64)
• 1985 Agacher Strip War
• 1990 – 1995 Tuareg rebellion (1990–95)
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 6 February 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
    • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
      • 23 January – 24 December 2015 2015 West African offensive
      • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
    • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
      • January 16, 2012 – present Mali War
        • January 16, 2012 – April 6, 2012 2012 Tuareg rebellion
          • January 18, 2012 — March 11, 2012 Battle of Tessalit
          • January 17 — 25, 2012 Battle of Aguelhok
          • February 7 — 8, 2012 Battle of Tinzaouaten (2012)
        • March 21, 2012 — April 8, 2012 2012 Malian coup d'état
        • June 27, 2012 — ongoing Azawad conflict
          • June 26 — 27, 2012 Battle of Gao
          • November 16 — 20, 2012 Second Battle of Ménaka
          • February 22 — 23, 2013 Battle of Khalil
          • March 29 — 30, 2013 Battle of In Arab
        • January 11, 2013 — 15 July 2014 Operation Serval
        • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
        • August 18, 2020 2020 Malian coup d'état
        • May 24, 2021 2021 Malian coup d'état
• 2006 2006 Tuareg rebellion
• 2007 – 2009 Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009)

Mauritania

Main article: List of conflicts in Mauritania

• June 17, 1970 – ongoing Western Sahara conflict
• 10 July 1978 1978 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 6 April 1979 1979 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 4 January 1980 1980 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 16 March 1981 1981 Mauritanian coup attempt
• 12 December 1984 1984 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 1989 – 1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 6 February 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
• 8 – 9 June 2003 2003 Mauritanian coup attempt
• 3 August 2005 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 6 August 2008 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état

Niger

• 1516–1517 Songhai Civil War
• 1916–1917 Kaocen Revolt
• 15 April 1974 1974 Nigerien coup d'état
• 1990 – 1995 Tuareg rebellion (1990–95)
• 27 January 1996 1996 Nigerien coup d'état
• 9 April 1999 1999 Nigerien coup d'état
• 2007 – 2009 Tuareg rebellion (2007–09)
• * 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
    • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
    • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
    • 2015 – present Jihadist insurgency in Niger
      • 4 October 2017 Tongo Tongo ambush
  • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
    • 23 January – 24 December 2015 2015 West African offensive
    • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
• 18 February 2010 2010 Nigerien coup d'état
• 12 – 13 July 2011 2011 Nigerien coup attempt
• 31 March 2021 2021 Nigerien coup attempt
• 26 – 28 July 2023 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
• 29 July 2023 – 24 February 2024 Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)

Nigeria

• 1578–1608 Oyo-Benin War
• 1804–1808 Fulani War
• 1835–1836 Fula jihads
• 1873 – Rafin Jaki Jihad
• 1877– 1893 Kiriji War ( Ekiti–Parapo War)
• 1897 Benin Expedition
• 1967 – 1970 Nigerian Civil War
  • July 2 – 12, 1967 Operation UNICORD
  • August 9 – September 20, 1967 Midwest Invasion of 1967
  • 12 September – 4 October 1967 Fall of Enugu
  • October 4 – 12, 1967 First Invasion of Onitsha
  • October 17 – 19, 1967 Operation Tiger Claw
  • January 2 - March 20, 1968 Second Invasion of Onitsha
  • 31 March 1968 Abagana Ambush
  • March 8 – May 24, 1968 Invasion of Port Harcourt
  • 2 September – 15 October 1968 Operation OAU
  • 15 – 29 November 1968 Operation Hiroshima
  • October 15, 1968 – April 25, 1969 Siege of Owerri
  • March 27 – April 22, 1969 Operation Leopard (1969)
  • December 20 – 24, 1969 Invasion of Umuahia
• 15 – 16 January 1966 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
• 28 July – 1 August 1966 1966 Nigerian counter-coup
  • January 7 – 12, 1970 Operation Tail-Wind
• July 29, 1975 1975 Nigerian coup d'état
• February 13, 1976 1976 Nigerian coup attempt
• April 1983 Chadian–Nigerian War
• 31 December 1983 1983 Nigerian coup d'état
• August 27, 1985 1985 Nigerian coup d'état
• April 22, 1990 1990 Nigerian coup attempt
• November 17, 1993 1993 Nigerian coup d'état
• 1997 – 2003 Warri Crisis
• 1998 – present Communal conflicts in Nigeria
  • 1953 – present Religious violence in Nigeria
  • 1998 – present Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • 2011 – present Nigerian bandit conflict
• 2003 – present Conflict in the Niger Delta
  • 2016 – present 2016 Niger Delta conflict
  • 2021 – present Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
    • 16 May 2023 2023 Anambra ambush
• 14 September 2001 – 30 August 2021 War on terror
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
    • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
      • 26 – 29 July 2009 2009 Boko Haram uprising
      • 13 – 14 May 2014 Chibok ambush
      • 23 January – 24 December 2015 2015 West African offensive
      • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
  • 15 February 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
• March 8, 2014 2014 Enugu Government House attack
• June 15, 2014 2014 Enugu State Broadcasting Service attack

Senegal

• 1549 Battle of Danki
• 1644-1677 Char Bouba war
• 1860-1886 Franco-Cayor Wars
• 1880-1899 Franco-Wolof Wars
• 1860-1920 French Conquest of Casamance
• 1886-1887 Uprising of Mahmadu Lamine
• 1982 – ongoing Casamance conflict
• 1989 – 1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War
• 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield

Sierra Leone

• February 7, 1813 Action
• March 21 – 23, 1967 1967 Sierra Leonean coups d'état
• April 18, 1968 Sergeant's Coup
• 1982 Ndogboyosoi War
• 1991 – 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War
  • April 29, 1992 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état
• November 26 – 28, 2023 2023 Sierra Leone coup attempt

Togo

• 13 January 1963 1963 Togolese coup d'état
• 13 January 1967 1967 Togolese coup d'état
• 23 September 1986 1986 Togolese coup attempt
• February 5 – 25, 2005 2005 Togolese coup d'état

Chronological list of wars

19th century

• 1801–1807 Temne War
• 1801–1805 First Barbary War
• 1803–1805 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1803–1806 War of the Third Coalition
    • 1806 Battle of Blaauwberg
  • 1807–1809 Anglo-Turkish War
    • 1807 Alexandria expedition
• 1804–1808 Fulani War
• 1805–1811 Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
• 1806–1807 Ashanti–Fante War
• 1807–1818 Mtetwa Empire Expansion
• 1810–1818 Amadu's Jihad
• 1811–1812 Fourth Xhosa War
• 1811 Ga–Fante War
• c.1812 Battle of Shela
• 1814–1816 Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War
• 1815 Slachter's Nek Rebellion
• 1815 Second Barbary War
• 1817–1819 Ndwandwe–Zulu War
• 1818–1819 Fifth Xhosa War
• 1818–1828 Zulu wars of conquest
• 1st March 1896 Battle of Adwa
• July 30, 1877– March 14, 1893 Kiriji War ( Ekiti–Parapo War)

20th century

• 1900 War of the Golden Stool
• 1900–1920 Somaliland Campaign
• 1901–1901 French conquest of the Dendi Kingdom^[1]
• 1902–1904 Kuanhama Rebellion^[2]
• 1901–1902 Anglo-Aro War
• 1901–1903 Mapondera Rebellion
• 1902–1904 Bailundo revolt of 1902
• 1903–1904 British conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate^[3]
• 1904–1908 Herero Wars
• 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
• 1905–1907 Maji Maji Rebellion
• 1906 Bambatha Rebellion
• 1906 Sokoto Uprising of 1906^[4]
• 1907–1910 Dembos War of 1907-1910^[4]
• 1908 Battle of Marrakech
• 1909 Second Melillan campaign
• 1909–1911 Ouaddai War
• 1910–1912 Portuguese conquest of the Kasanje Kingdom^[5]
• 1911–1912 French conquest of Morocco
• 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912 Sirte revolt^[6]
• 1914 Kolongongo War^[7]
• 1914–1917 Kongo revolt^[8][9]
• 1914–1921 Zaian War
• 1914–1918 African theatre of World War I
  • 1914–1918 East African campaign
  • 1914–1916 Kamerun campaign
  • 1914 Togoland Campaign
  • 1914–1915 South West Africa campaign
• 1914–1915 Maritz rebellion
• 1915–1916 Volta-Bani War
• 1915 Chilembwe uprising
• 1915 The Bussa rebellion
• 1915–1917 Senussi Campaign
• 1916–1917 Kaocen revolt
• 1916 Battle of Segale
• 1918 The Adubi War
• 1920 Misurata-Warfalla War^[10]
• 1920–1922 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war
• 1920–1926 Rif War
• 1921–1922 Rand Rebellion
• 1922 Bondelswarts Rebellion
• 1923–1932 Pacification of Libya
• 1928–1931 Kongo-Wara rebellion
• 1929–1930 Women's War
• 1930 Gugsa Wale's rebellion
• 1935–1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1940–1943 North African campaign
  • 1940–1943 East African campaign
  • 1940 Battle of Dakar
  • 1940 Battle of Gabon
  • 1942 Battle of Madagascar
• 1943 Woyane rebellion
• 1952–1960 Mau Mau Uprising
• 1954–1962 Algerian War
• 1955–1964 Bamileke War
• 1955–1972 First Sudanese Civil War
• 1957–1958 Ifni War
• 1960–1965 Congo Crisis
  • 1966–1967 Stanleyville mutinies
• 1960–present Katanga insurgency
• 1961 Bizerte crisis
• 1961–1991 Eritrean War of Independence
• 1961–1974 Portuguese Colonial War
  • 1961–1974 Angolan War of Independence
  • 1963–1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
  • 1964–1974 Mozambican War of Independence
• 1962–1964 Tuareg rebellion
• 1963 Sand War
• 1963–1967 Shifta War
• 1963–1970 Bale revolt
• 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• 1964–1965 Simba rebellion
• 1964–1979 Rhodesian Bush War
• 1964 Zanzibar Revolution
• 1965–1979 First Chadian Civil War
• 1966–1989 South African Border War
• 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War
• 1970–present Western Sahara conflict
  • 1975–1991 Western Sahara War
• 1972–1974 First Eritrean Civil War
• 1973–2018 Oromo conflict
• 1974–1991 Ethiopian Civil War
• 1975–2002 Angolan Civil War
• 1975–present Cabinda War
• 1977–1992 Mozambican Civil War
• 1977 Libyan–Egyptian War
• 1977–1978 Ogaden War
• 1977 Shaba I
• 1978 Shaba II
• 1978–1979 Uganda–Tanzania War
• 1978–1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict
• 1980–1981 Second Eritrean Civil War
• 1980–1986 Ugandan Bush War
• 1981 Entumbane uprising
• 1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt
• 1982–present Casamance conflict
• 1982 Ndogboyosoi War
• 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• 1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
• 1985 Agacher Strip War
• 1986 United States bombing of Libya
• 1987–present Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• 1989–1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War
• 1989–1997 First Liberian Civil War
• 1990–1994 Rwandan Civil War
• 1990–1995 Tuareg rebellion
• 1991–1994 Djiboutian Civil War
• 1991–2002 Sierra Leone Civil War
• 1991–2002 Algerian Civil War
• 1991–present Somali Civil War
• 1993–2005 Burundian Civil War
• 1993–1994 Republic of the Congo Civil War
• 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis
• 1994–1999 Caprivi conflict
• 1994–2018 Insurgency in Ogaden
• 1995–2018 Second Afar insurgency
• 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
• 1996–present Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
• 1996–1997 First Congo War
• 1997–1999 Republic of the Congo Civil War
• 1998–2000 Eritrean–Ethiopian War
• 1998–2003 Second Congo War
  • 2000 Six-Day War
• 1998–1999 Guinea-Bissau Civil War
• 1999–2003 Second Liberian Civil War
• 1999–present Ituri conflict

21st century

• 2001–2021 War on Terrorism
  • 1981–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 Nigerian sectarian violence
  • 2009–present Boko Haram insurgency
  • 2015–2022 ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
  • 2015–present Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • 2016–present Jihadist insurgency in Niger
  • 2017–present Islamist insurgency in Mozambique
• 2002–2003 Conflict in the Pool Department
• 2002–2004 First Ivorian Civil War
• 2003–2020 War in Darfur
• 2004 French–Ivorian clashes
• 2004–present Conflict in the Niger Delta
  • 2016–present Niger Delta conflict
• 2004–2007 Central African Republic Bush War
• 2004–present Kivu conflict
• 2005–2010 Chadian Civil War
• 2005–2008 Mount Elgon insurgency
• 2006–2013 Bakassi conflict
• 2007–2009 Second Tuareg Rebellion
• 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis
• 2008 Invasion of Anjouan
• 2008 Kufra conflict
• 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict
• 2009–present Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 2011–present Ethnic violence in South Sudan
    • 2013–2020 South Sudanese Civil War
• 2009 Sudan airstrikes
• 2009 Dongo conflict
• 2010–2011 Second Ivorian Civil War
• 2011–2023 Sinai Insurgency
• 2011 First Libyan Civil War
• 2011–2020 Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
• 2011–2014 Factional violence in Libya
• 2012–present Mali War
• 2012 Heglig Crisis
• 2012–2013 M23 rebellion
• 2012 Baragoi clashes
• 2012–present Central African Republic Civil War
• 2013–2018 Batwa–Luba clashes
• 2013–2019 RENAMO insurgency
• 2014 Aswan tribal clashes
• 2014–2020 Second Libyan Civil War
• 2016–2017 Pool War
• 2016 Kasese clashes
• 2016–2019 Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• 2017–present Anglophone Crisis
• 2020–2022 Tigray War
• 2023–present 2023 Sudan conflict
• 2023–present 2023 Las Anod conflict

See also

• List of active separatist movements in Africa
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• Military history of Africa

General:

• List of conflicts in North America
• List of conflicts in Central America
• List of conflicts in South America
• List of conflicts in Europe
• List of conflicts in Asia
• List of conflicts in the Near East
• List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
• List of wars