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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 ...
Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present) Ethiopian civil war (2018–present) Part of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa. Territorial control as of December 2023 [a] (For a more detailed, up-to-date, interactive map, see here ). Pro-federal government troops. Ethiopian federal government and regional allies.
The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. [47] [48] The war was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.
Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589) Gobroon – Bardera War (late 18th century) British expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868) Egyptian–Ethiopian War (1874–1876) Egyptian invasion of the Eastern Horn of Africa (1874–1885) Menelik's Invasions (1878–1904) Mahdist War (1881–1899) Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889 between the ...
The famine of 1983–1985 is officially ascribed to drought. In recent years, the favoured explanation for the famine of 1983–1985 is " war and drought". [11] According to the organizations Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, the famines that struck Ethiopia between 1961 and 1985, and in particular the one of 1983–1985, were in part created by ...
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. [4] [5] During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias.
t. e. The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities. [7] Dominated by Kikuyu, Meru and Embu fighters, the KLFA also comprised ...