List of conflicts in Africa

Continental map of the ongoing 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.

African Great Lakes

Burundi

• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
• 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
• April – August 1972 Ikiza
• 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
• 2004 – present Kivu conflict
• April 25, 2015 – 2018 Burundian unrest
  • May 13 – 15, 2015 2015 Burundian coup attempt

Rwanda

• 1896 Battle of Shangi
• 1912 Ndungutse's rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
• 1959 – 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
• 2004 – present Kivu conflict
  • 2022 – 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
• 2012 2012 Congolese–Rwandan border clash

Kenya

• 8550 BC – 7550 BC conflict at Nataruk
• 1500 – 1509 Portuguese conquest of the East African coast
  • August 15, 1505 Battle of Mombasa (1505)
• 1528 Battle of Mombasa (1528)
• 1586 – 1589 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589)
  • March 5, 1589 Battle of Mombasa (1589)
• 1696 – 1698 Siege of Mombasa (1696–1698)
• 1813 Battle of Shela
• June 1905 Sotik Massacre
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
      • February 12, 1916 Battle of Salaita Hill
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 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
• July 13, 1991 St. Kizito massacre
• 1998 – present Terrorism in Kenya
  • August 7, 1998 1998 United States embassy bombings
  • November 28, 2002 2002 Mombasa attacks
  • 2011 – 2014 2011–2014 terrorist attacks in Kenya
  • September 21 – 24, 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
  • June 15, 2014 2014 Mpeketoni attacks
  • April 2, 2015 2015 Garissa University College attack
  • January 15 – 16, 2019 Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack
• 2005 Turbi massacre
• 2005 – 2008 Mount Elgon insurgency
• 2007 – 2008 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis
• 2009 – present Somali Civil War (2009–present)
  • June 14, 2015 Battle of Baure
  • January 5, 2020 Camp Simba attack
• April 21, 2009 Mathira massacre
• August 22, 2012 2012–2013 Tana River District clashes
• 2012 Baragoi clashes

South Sudan

• 1881 – 1899 Mahdist War
  • February 17, 1897 Battle of Rejaf
• 1898 Fashoda Incident
• 1955 – 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
  • August 18 – 30, 1955 Torit mutiny
• 1960 – 1965 Congo Crisis
  • 1963 – 1965 Simba rebellion
• 1983 – 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
  • March 9 – April 1997 Operation Thunderbolt (1997)
  • June 2000 – August 2001 War of the Peters
• 1987 – present Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• 1996 – 1997 First Congo War
• 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
  • 2009 2009 Sobat River ambush
  • 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)
• 2025 2025 Nasir clashes

Tanzania

• 1500 – 1509 Portuguese conquest of the East African coast
  • July 24, 1505 Sack of Kilwa
• 1784 Oman–Zanzibar war
• 1888 – 1889 Abushiri revolt
• 1888 – 1889 Blockade of Zanzibar
• 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War
• 1905 – 1907 Maji Maji Rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
      • September 20, 1914 Battle of Zanzibar
      • October 1914 – July 11, 1915 Battle of Rufiji Delta
      • November 3, 1914 Battle of Kilimanjaro
      • November 3 – 5, 1914 Battle of Tanga
      • January 18 – 19, 1915 Battle of Jassin
      • June 21 – 23, 1915 Battle of Bukoba
      • December 26, 1915 – July 1916 Battle for Lake Tanganyika
      • March 11 – 12, 1916 Battle of Latema Nek
      • March 18, 1916 Battle of Kahe
      • April – September 1916 Tabora offensive
        • September 8 – 19, 1916 Battle of Tabora
      • May 7 – 10, 1916 Battle of Kondoa Irangi
      • August 24, 1916 Battle of Mlali
      • September 7 – 11, 1916 Battle of Kisaki
      • September 9 – 11, 1916 Battle of Dutumi
      • November 11, 1916 Battle of Matamondo
      • December 6 – 15, 1916 Battle of Kibata
      • January 3 – 4, 1917 Battle of Behobeho
      • March 13, 1917 Battle of Nambanje
      • April 18, 1917 Battle of Rumbo
      • July 19, 1917 Battle of Narungombe
      • October 15 – 18, 1917 Battle of Mahiwa
      • August 28 – October 9, 1917 Mahenge offensive
• 1964 Zanzibar Revolution
  • January 1964 Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution
• 1978 – 1979 Uganda–Tanzania War
  • October 10, 1978 – April 7, 1979 Air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War
  • October 25, 1978 – January 1979 Invasion of Kagera
• 2017 – present Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • October 15, 2020 Kitaya massacre

Uganda

• 1881 – 1899 Mahdist War
  • November 28, 1888 Battle of Dufile
• 1892 Battle of Kampala Hill
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African Campaign (World War I)
• 1960 – 1965 Congo Crisis
  • 1963 – 1965 Simba rebellion
• 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
  • October 10, 1978 – April 7, 1979 Air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War
  • January 21 – 22, 1979 Battle of Mutukula
  • February 1979 Battle of Simba Hills
  • March 2 – 4, 1979 Battle of Tororo
  • February 21 – 23, 1979 Battle of Simba Hills
  • February 23 – 24, 1979 Battle of Masaka
  • February – May 1979 Western Uganda campaign of 1979
  • March 10 – 11, 1979 Battle of Lukaya
  • March – April 6, 1979 Battle of Sembabule
  • March – April 1979 Operation Dada Idi
  • April 7, 1979 Battle of Entebbe
  • April 11, 1979 Fall of Kampala
  • April 15 – May 1979 Eastern Uganda campaign of 1979
    • April 22, 1979 Battle of Jinja
  • April 1979 Battle of Bombo
  • May 15, 1979 Battle of Lira
  • May 17, 1979 Battle of Karuma Falls
  • May 27, 1979 Battle of Bondo
• 1980 – 1986 Ugandan Bush War
  • October 1980 West Nile campaign (October 1980)
  • February 6, 1981 Battle of Kabamba
  • April 5, 1981 Battle of Kakiri
  • January 10, 1985 Battle of Birembo
  • June 21, 1985 Battle of Kembogo
  • July 27, 1985 1985 Ugandan coup d'état
  • September 24 – December 10, 1985 Siege of Masaka
  • January 26, 1986 Battle of Kampala
  • January – March 1986 Northern Uganda campaign (January–March 1986)
• 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 Jihad of Usman dan Fodio
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 6, 1914 – March 10, 1916 Kamerun campaign
      • August 24 – September 28, 1914 Naval operations of the Kamerun campaign
      • August 26, 1914 – February 18, 1916 Siege of Mora
      • August 29 – 31, 1914 First Battle of Garua
      • August – September 25, 1914 Battle of Kusseri
      • September 6, 1914 Battle of Nsanakong
      • October 7 – 14, 1914 Battle of Jabassi
      • October 20 – 26, 1914 First Battle of Edea
      • January 5, 1915 Second Battle of Edea
      • May 1 – June 1915 First Battle of Jaunde
      • May 31 – June 10, 1915 Second Battle of Garua
      • June 29, 1915 Battle of Ngaundere
      • November 4 – 6, 1915 Battle of Banjo
      • October 9, 1915 – January 1, 1916 Second Battle of Jaunde
• 1939 – 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
• April 6, 1984 1984 Cameroonian coup attempt
• 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
• 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
  • December 28 – 29, 2014 December 2014 Cameroon clashes
  • January 12, 2015 January 2015 raid on Kolofata
  • January 23 – December 23, 2015 2015 West African offensive
  • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
  • June 9 – 10, 2019 Battle of Darak
  • July 24, 2021 2021 Sagme attack
• 2017 – present Anglophone Crisis
  • July 3, 2018 Battle of Batibo
  • July 28, 2018 Ndop prison break
  • September 25, 2018 Wum prison break
  • April 26 – May 1, 2020 Operation Free Bafut
  • September 8 2020 – present Operation Bamenda Clean
  • May – June 2021 Operation Bui Clean
  • September 16, 2021 September 2021 Bamessing ambush
  • July 31, 2022 Battle of Bambui
  • April 10, 2024 Battle of Kumbo
  • October 24, 2024 Bombanda raid

Central African Republic

• 1900 Battle of Kousséri
• 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
• 1979 – 1981 Operation Barracuda
• 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)
  • April 13, 2013 – January 10, 2014 Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration
  • December 5, 2013 – October 30, 2016 Operation Sangaris
  • December 5, 2013 – January 4, 2020 Siege of PK5 district
    • August 12 – September 2016 2016 escape from Bangui
  • May 7 – 9, 2017 2017 Alindao massacre
  • May 13 – 15, 2017 Bangassou massacre
  • October 31 – November 17, 2018 2018 Batangafo clashes
  • November 15, 2018 2018 Alindao massacre
  • December 31, 2018 – January 16, 2019 Battle of Bakouma
  • January 10 – 19, 2019 January 2019 Bambari clashes
  • March 2 – May 19, 2020 2020 N'Délé clashes
  • December 22, 2020 – February 17, 2021 Battles of Bambari (2020–2021)
  • January 3, 2021 Battle of Bangassou
  • January 13, 2021 Battle of Bangui (2021)
  • March 5 – May 25, 2022 Battle of Nzacko
  • March 6 – 18, 2022 March 2022 attacks in the Central African Republic
  • March 27 – April 11, 2022 2022 Gadzi clashes
  • April 7, 2024 2024 Haute-Kotto raid

Chad

• 1898 – 1900 Voulet–Chanoine Mission
• 1899 Battle of Kouno
• 1899 Battle of Togbao
• 1909 – 1911 Ouaddai War
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1916 Kamerun campaign
• September 2, 1965 – October 1965 Mangalmé riots
• 1965 – 1979 Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)
• 1978 – 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict
  • February 20, 1978 – May 1980 Opération Tacaud
  • March 22 – December 15, 1980 Second Battle of N'Djamena
  • 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 – present Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – present Operation Juniper Shield
• May 16, 2004 2004 Chadian coup attempt
• 2005 – 2010 Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
  • December 18, 2005 Battle of Adré
  • January 6, 2006 Raid on Borota
  • March 6, 2006 Raid on Amdjereme
  • April 13, 2006 Battle of N'Djamena (2006)
  • May 1, 2006 Raid on Dalola
  • February 2 – 4, 2008 Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
  • June 18, 2008 Battle of Am Zoer
  • May 7, 2009 Battle of Am Dam
  • April 24 – 28, 2010 Battle of Tamassi
• May 16, 2004 2004 Chadian coup attempt
• March 14, 2006 2006 Chadian coup attempt
• 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
  • January 23 – December 24, 2015 2015 West African offensive
  • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
  • March 31 – April 9, 2020 Operation Boma's Wrath
  • August 5, 2021 Tchoukoutalia attack
• May 1, 2013 2013 Chadian coup attempt
• 2016 – present Insurgency in Chad (2016–present)
  • 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

• 1665 – 1709 Kongo Civil War
• 1891 − 1892 Stairs Expedition to Katanga
• 1892 – 1894 Congo–Arab war
• 1895 – 1908 Batetela rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African campaign (World War I)
• 1931 Pende revolt
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1944 Masisi-Lubutu revolt
• 1960 – 1965 Congo Crisis
  • July 5, 1960 1960 Force Publique mutinies
  • August 23 – September 23, 1960 Invasion of South Kasai
  • November 8, 1960 Niemba ambush
  • April 7 – 11, 1961 Battle of Kabalo
  • April 28, 1961 Port Francqui incident
  • August 28, 1961 Operation Rum Punch
  • September 13–17, 1961 Siege of Jadotville
  • December 5 – 21, 1961 Operation Unokat
    • December 16, 1961 Attack on Camp Massart
  • December 28, 1962 – January 15, 1963 Operation Grandslam
  • 1963 – 1965 Kwilu rebellion
  • 1963 – 1965 Simba Rebellion
    • November 24, 1964 Operation Dragon Rouge
  • 1963 – 1966 Kanyarwanda War
  • November 25, 1965 Second Mobutu coup d'état
• 1963 – ongoing Katanga insurgency
• 1966 - 1967 Stanleyville mutinies
• 1977 Shaba I
• 1978 Shaba II
  • May 18 – 22, 1978 Battle of Kolwezi
• 1987 — ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• September — October 1991 1991 Zaire unrest
• 1996 — ongoing Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • November 30, 2021 – present Operation Shujaa
• 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 Kisangani (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)
  • January 16, 2001 Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila
  • May 13 – 15, 2002 Kisangani massacre
  • October 2002 – January 2003 Effacer le tableau
  • February 24, 2003 Bogoro massacre
• 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 (2012–2013)
  • June 30 – August 10, 2014 2014 North Kivu offensive
  • June 1, 2017 – December 26, 2017 2017 CNPSC offensive
    • September 27 – 28, 2017 2017 Uvira clashes
  • March 27, 2022 – present M23 offensive (2022–present)
    • January 23 – 30, 2025 2025 Goma offensive
    • February 5 – 16, 2025 2025 Bukavu offensive
    • February 16 – 21, 2025 2025 Uvira offensive
    • March 6 – 19, 2025 2025 Walikale offensive
  • March 27, 2022 – June 27, 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
• 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
• 2012 2012 Congolese–Rwandan border clash
• 2013 – 2018 Batwa-Luba clashes
• December 30, 2013 December 2013 Kinshasa attacks
• June 6 – 7, 2014 2014 South Kivu attack
• 2016 – 2019 Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• December 16 – 18, 2018 2018 Yumbi massacre
• 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

• 1936 – 1939 Spanish Civil War
  • September 19 – October 1936 1936 uprising in Spanish Guinea
• August 3 – 18, 1979 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état
• March 7, 2004 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt
• December 24, 2017 2017 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt

Gabon

• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 6, 1914 – March 10, 1916 Kamerun campaign
      • September 21, 1914 Battle of Ukoko
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • October 27 – November 14, 1940 Battle of 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

• 1874 – 1885 Egyptian Invasion of Harar
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African campaign (World War II)
• 1991 – 1994 Djiboutian Civil War
• 1994 – present FRUD insurgency
• 2008 Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict

Eritrea

• 1529 – 1543 Ethiopian–Adal War
  • April 1541 Battle of Massawa (1541)
• 1557 – 1624 Ottoman conquest of Habesh
• 1874 – 1876 Egyptian–Ethiopian War
• 1881 – 1899 Mahdist War
  • September 22 – 23, 1885 Battle of Kufit
  • June 27, 1890 First Battle of Agordat
  • June 26, 1892 Battle of Serobeti
  • December 21, 1893 Second Battle of Agordat
• 1894 Battle of Halai
• 1895 – 1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War
  • January 13, 1895 Battle of Coatit
  • January 15 – 16, 1895 Battle of Senafe
• 1935 – 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War
  • October 3, 1935 – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African Campaign
      • October 20 – 21, 1940 Attack on Convoy BN 7
      • January 26 – 31, 1941 Battle of Agordat (1941)
      • February 5, 1941 – April 1, 1941 Battle of Keren
• 1961 – 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
  • September 1, 1961 Battle of Adal
  • September 17, 1976 - March 22, 1977 Siege of Nakfa
  • 1977 – 1978 Battle of Massawa (1977)
  • September 1977 - August 1978 Siege of Barentu
  • February 15 – July 5, 1982 Red Star Campaign
  • March 17 – 20, 1988 Battle of Afabet
  • February 8 – 17, 1990 Battle of Massawa (1990)
• 1972 – 1974 First Eritrean Civil War
• 1980 – 1981 Second Eritrean Civil War
• 1995 – 2018 Second Afar insurgency
• 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
• 1998 – 2018 Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
  • 1998 – 2000 Eritrean–Ethiopian War
    • May 6 – June 17, 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
• 2013 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny
• 2018 – present Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)
  • 2020 – 2022 Tigray War
    • 2020 – 2022 Spillover of the Tigray war

Ethiopia

Axumite Empire

• circa 300 C.E. Ezana of Axum anecdotally said to have launched several military campaigns, destroying the Kingdom of Kush
• 518 – 525 Aksumite invasion of Himyar
• 525 Conquest of the Himyarite Kingdom by Axum.
• 570 – 578 Aksumite-Persian wars
• c. 900 The King of Aksum Degna Djan, both led military expeditions as far south as Ennarea, and commanded missionary activities in the highlands of Angot and the modern region of Amhara. ^[1]
• c. 960 Axumite Empire said to have been destroyed and defeated by Gudit of the Kingdom of Simien

Makhzumi Dynasty

• 1270 Battle of Ansata
• c. 1285 the Conquest of Makhzumi by the Ifat Sultanate

Ethiopian Empire

• 1314 – 1344 Amda Seyon I's expansions
  • 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
    • July 3, 1332 Battle of Das
  • c. 1320 – 1415 Abyssinian wars against the Sultanate of Ifat
    • 1410 Battle of Zeila
• 1529 – 1525 Rise of the Adal Sultanate
  • 1413 Battle of Serjan
  • 1413 Battle of Zikr Amhara
  • 1422 Battle of Yedaya
  • 1423 Siege of Mukha
• 1445 Battle of Gomit
• 1520 – 1526 Adalite Civil War
• 1529 – 1543 Ethiopian–Adal War
  • March 1529 Battle of Shimbra Kure
  • 1531 Battle of Antukyah
  • October 28, 1531 Battle of Amba Sel
  • April 24, 1541 Battle of Sahart
  • February 2, 1542 Battle of Baçente
  • April 4 – 16, 1542 Battle of Jarte
  • August 1542 Battle of the Hill of the Jews
  • August 28, 1542 Battle of Wofla
  • February 21. 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
• 1538 – 1560 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)
• 1563 Battle of Endagabatan
• 1569 Battle of Hadiya (1569)
• 1576 Battle of Webi River
• 1769 – 1855 Zemene Mesafint
  • May 1771 Three battles of Sarbakusa
  • June 1788 Battle of Madab
  • February 14, 1831 Battle of Debre Abbay
  • October 4, 1839 Battle of Konzoula
  • February 7, 1842 Battle of Debre Tabor
  • November 27, 1852 Battle of Gur Amba
  • April 12, 1853 Battle of Takusa
  • June 29, 1853 Battle of Ayshal
  • March 1854 Battle of Amba Jebelli
  • February 9, 1855 Battle of Derasge
• 1782 Battle of Wuchale
• 1832 – 1848 Ethiopian–Ottoman border conflict
• 1867 – 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia
• 1871 Battle of the Assem
• 1874 – 1876 Egyptian–Ethiopian War
• 1874 – 1885 Egyptian Invasion of Harar
• 1878 – 1904 Menelik II's conquests
  • June 6, 1882 Battle of Embabo
  • December 1883 Battle of Dodota
  • September 6, 1886 Battle of Azule
  • October 1886 Battle of Hirna
  • January 9, 1887 Battle of Chelenqo
• 1881 – 1899 Mahdist War
  • October 14, 1888 Battle of Guté Dili
• 1895 – 1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War
  • October 9, 1895 Battle of Debra Ailà
  • December 7, 1895 Battle of Amba Alagi (1895)
  • January 7 – 21, 1896 Siege of Mekelle
  • March 1, 1896 Battle of Adwa
• 1896 – 1920 Somaliland campaign
  • March 5, 1900 Battle of Jigjiga (1900)
  • April 15 – 17, 1903 Battle of Agaarweyne
• 1916 Battle of Segale
• September 1928 1928 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt
• 1929 – 1930 Gugsa Wale's rebellion
• 1935 – 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War
  • October 3 – December 17, 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia
  • December 8, 1935 – January 20, 1936 Christmas Offensive
  • January 12 – 20, 1936 Battle of Ganale Doria
  • January 20 – 24, 1936 First Battle of Tembien
  • February 10 – 19, 1936 Battle of Amba Aradam
  • February 27 – 29, 1936 Second Battle of Tembien
  • February 29 – March 2, 1936 Battle of Shire (1936)
  • March 31, 1936 Battle of Maychew
  • April 3 – 5, 1936 Retreat to Lake Ashenge
  • April 14 – 25, 1936 Battle of the Ogaden
  • April 26 – May 5, 1936 March of the Iron Will
• 1939 Arbegnoch rebellion of 1939
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
    • June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African Campaign
      • March 25 – July 6, 1941 Siege of Saïo
      • May 4 – 19, 1941 Battle of Amba Alagi (1941)
      • August 6 – November 21, 1941 Battle of Culqualber
      • November 13 – 27, 1941 Battle of Gondar
    • November 27, 1941 – October 1943 Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia
• December 13 – 17, 1960 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt
• 1963 – 1970 Bale revolt
• 1963 – 1965 1963–1965 Ogaden rebellion
• 1964 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• 1973 – ongoing Oromo conflict
• January 12 – September 12, 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
• 1974 – 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
  • 12 September 1974 1974 Ethiopian coup d'état

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia

• 1973 – ongoing Oromo conflict
  • August 1974 Battle of Tiro
• 1974 – 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
  • November 23 1974 Massacre of the Sixty
  • September 23, 1976 – March 22, 1978 Red Terror (Ethiopia)
  • June 22, 1988 Hawzen massacre (1988)
  • February 8 – 19, 1989 Battle of Shire (1989)
  • May 16, 1989 1989 Ethiopian coup attempt
  • May 28, 1991 Fall of the Derg regime
• July 13, 1977 – March 15, 1978 Ogaden War
  • July 13 – October 1977 Somali invasion of Ogaden
  • July 1977 – August 1977 Battle of Dire Dawa
  • September 1977 – March 5, 1978 Battle of Jijiga
  • October 1977 – January 27, 1978 Battle of Harar
• 1981 – 1991 Somaliland War of Independence
  • October 17, 1984 Burco-Duuray offensive
• 1982 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

• 1973 – ongoing Oromo conflict
  • April 25, 2014 – December 2016 2014–2016 Oromo protests
• 1985 – 2023 Gambela conflict
• 1991 – present Somali Civil War
  • 2009 – present Somali Civil War (2009–present)
    • 2022 2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia
• 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
• 1995 – 2018 Gedeo-Guji clashes
• 1998 – 2018 Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
  • 1998 – 2000 Eritrean–Ethiopian War
    • May 6 – June 17, 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
• 2002 – present Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
• 2012 Moyale clashes
• 2016 – 2018 Oromo–Somali clashes
• 2018 – present Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)
  • 2018 – present OLA insurgency
    • March 18, 2021 – April 18, 2021 2021 Ataye clashes
    • March 29 – April 19, 2022 2022 North Shewa clashes
  • June 22, 2019 Amhara Region coup attempt
  • October 23 – 28, 2019 October 2019 Ethiopian clashes
  • 2019 – 2022 Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
  • 2020 – 2024 Afar–Somali clashes
  • June 30 – July 2, 2020 Hachalu Hundessa riots
  • 2020 – 2022 Tigray War
    • November 3 – 4, 2020 Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia)
    • November 9 – 11, 2020 Battle of Humera
    • November 17 – 28, 2020 Mekelle offensive
    • 2020 – 2022 Spillover of the Tigray War
    • June 11, 2021 – July 6, 2021 Operation Alula
    • October 31 – December 1, 2021 TDF–OLA joint offensive
    • November 26 – December 23 2021 ENDF National Unity Offensive
    • October 14 – 18, 2022 Battle of Shire (2022)
  • 2020 – 2022 Al-Fashaga conflict
  • February 2023 2023 Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church crisis
  • 2023 – present War in Amhara
    • August 13, 2023 Finote Selam drone strike
    • January 29 – 30, 2024 Merawi massacre
    • July 2024 – present Amhara offensive

Somalia

Sultanate of Mogadishu

• 766 – 837 Abbasid expeditions to East Africa

Adal Sultanate

• 1424 – 1429 Campaigns of Jamal ad-Din II
• 1500 – 1509 Portuguese conquest of the East African coast
• 1505 – 1543 Somali–Portuguese conflicts
  • April 1507 Battle of Barawa
  • July 1517 Battle of Zeila
  • 1542 Battle of Benadir
• 1520 – 1526 Adalite Civil War
• 1529 – 1543 Ethiopian–Adal War

Isaaq Sultanate

• 1825 – 1945 Anglo-Isaaq conflicts
  • January 10 – 11, 1827 British attack on Berbera (1827)
  • April 19, 1855 Attack on Burton's Camp
  • 1855 – 1856 Blockade of Berbera

Emirate of Harar

• 1874 – 1885 Egyptian invasion of Harar

British Somaliland

• 1896 – 1920 Somaliland campaign
  • October 6, 1902 Battle of Erego
  • March 3, 1913 Battle of Hiraan
  • August 14, 1913 Battle of Dul Madoba
  • January – 9 February 1920 Fifth Expedition (Somaliland)
• 1922 1922 Burao tax revolt
• 1945 1945 Sheikh Bashir rebellion

Italian East Africa

• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African campaign (World War II)
      • August 3 – 19, 1940 Italian invasion of British Somaliland
        • August 11 – 15, 1940 Battle of Tug Argan
      • March 16 – April 8, 1941 Operation Appearance

Somali Republic

• 1961 1961 revolt in Somalia
• 1954 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
• October 21, 1969 1969 Somali coup d'état

Somali Democratic Republic

• 1977 – 1978 Ogaden War
  • July 13 – 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
  • April 9, 1978 1978 Somali coup attempt
  • 1978 – 1982 Afraad Rebellion
  • 1981 – 1991 Somaliland War of Independence
    • November 25, 1984 Battle of the Mountains
    • 1987 – 1989 Isaaq genocide
    • May 27 – June 1, 1988 1988 Hargeisa-Burao offensive
      • May – July 1988 Bombardment of Burao and Hargeisa 1988
      • May 27, 1988 Battle of Burao
      • May 29, 1988 Battle of Cadaadley
      • May 31, 1988 – December 5, 1989 Battle of Hargeisa (1988)
    • February 9, 1991 1991 Zeila incursion
  • July 14, 1989 Mogadishu Riots of 1989
  • January 2 – 11, 1991 Operation Eastern Exit
• 1982 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War

Federal Republic of Somalia

• 1991 – ongoing Somali Civil War
  • December 5, 1992 – May 4, 1993 Unified Task Force
    • December 1992 – May 1993 Operation Deliverance
  • March 26, 1993 – March 28, 1995 United Nations Operation in Somalia II
    • June 5, 1993 June 1993 attack on Pakistani military in Somalia
    • June 13, 1993 June 1993 UN killings of Somali protestors
    • July 2, 1993 Battle of Checkpoint Pasta
    • July 12, 1993 Bloody Monday raid
    • August 22, 1993 – October 13, 1993 Operation Gothic Serpent
      • October 3 – 4, 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
    • January 9 – March 3, 1995 Operation United Shield
  • 1995 – 2006 Consolidation of states within Somalia (1995–2006)
  • 1998 – ongoing Puntland-Somaliland dispute
    • October 15, 2007 Battle of Las Anod (2007)
    • July 9, 2008 Battle of Las Qoray
    • November 2010 – February 2011 Battle of Kalshaale
    • January 8, 2018 Battle of Tukaraq
  • 2000 – ongoing Piracy off the coast of Somalia
    • March 18, 2006 Action of 18 March 2006
    • October 29, 2007 Dai Hong Dan incident
    • December 8, 2008 – ongoing Operation Atalanta
      • September 2 – 15, 2008 Carré d'As IV incident
      • March 3, 2009 Action of 3 March 2009
      • April 9, 2009 April 2009 raid off Somalia
    • April 8 – 12, 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking
    • August 17, 2009 – ongoing Operation Ocean Shield
      • March 30, 2010 Action of 30 March 2010
      • January 18 – 21, 2011 MV Beluga Nomination incident
    • March 16 – May 1, 2011 MV Sinar Kudus hijacking
    • May 6, 2010 MV Moscow University hijacking
    • January 12, 2012 Attack on Spanish oiler Patiño
  • 2002 – 2016 Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa
    • May 1, 2008 Dhusamareb airstrike
    • September 14, 2009 2009 Baraawe raid
    • January 25, 2012 Rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted
    • October 5, 2013 2013 raid on Barawe
  • June 4 – December 20, 2006 2006 Islamic Courts Union offensive
    • May 7, – July 11, 2006 Battle of Mogadishu (2006)
  • December 20, 2006 – January 30, 2009 Somalia War (2006–2009)
    • December 20 – 26, 2006 Battle of Baidoa
    • December 23 – 25, 2006 Battle of Bandiradley
    • December 24 – 25, 2006 Battle of Beledweyne (2006)
    • December 27, 2006 Battle of Jowhar
    • December 28, 2006 Fall of Mogadishu
    • December 31, 2006 – January 1, 2007 Battle of Jilib
    • January 1, 2007 Fall of Kismayo
    • January 5 – 12, 2007 Battle of Ras Kamboni
    • March 21 – April 26, 2007 Battle of Mogadishu (March–April 2007)
    • November 8 – 16, 2007 Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007)
    • April 19 – 20, 2008 Battle of Mogadishu (2008)
    • May 31 – June 3, 2007 Battle of Bargal (2007)
    • July 1 – 26, 2008 Battle of Beledweyne (2008)
    • July 8, 2008 – January 26, 2009 Siege of Baidoa
    • August 20–22, 2008 Battle of Kismayo (2008)
  • January 31, 2009 – ongoing Somali Civil War (2009–present)
    • February 24 – 25, 2009 Battle of South Mogadishu
    • May 7 – October 1, 2009 Battle of Mogadishu (2009)
    • May 11 – October 1, 2009 Battle for Central Somalia (2009)
    • June 5, 2009 Battle of Wabho
    • October 1 – 7, 2009 Battle of Kismayo (2009)
    • January 10 – 14, 2010 Battle of Beledweyne (2010)
    • May – July 2010 2010 Ayn clashes
    • July 20, 2010 2010 Kenya–Al-Shabaab border clash
    • August 23, 2010 – October 20, 2011 Battle of Mogadishu (2010–2011)
    • April 1 – October 16, 2011 Battle of Lower Juba
    • April 27, 2011 – November 10, 2012 Battle of Gedo
    • September 9 – 10, 2011 Battle of Elwaq
    • October 16, 2011 – May 31, 2012 Operation Linda Nchi
      • September 28 – October 1, 2012 Battle of Kismayo (2012)
    • October 20, 2011 Battle of Deynile
    • December 2011 Battle of Beledweyne (2011)
    • March 10, 2012 Battle of Yurkud (2012)
    • January 11, 2013 Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt
    • August 16, 2014 – May 23, 2015 Operation Indian Ocean
    • August 8 – October 1, 2014 Galgala campaign
    • June 26, 2015 Battle of Leego (2015)
    • September 1, 2015 Battle of Janale (2015)
    • January 15, 2016 Battle of El Adde
    • October 26 – December 18, 2016 Qandala campaign
    • January 27, 2017 Battle of Kulbiyow
    • May 5, 2017 2017 raid on Barii
    • June 8, 2017 Battle of Af Urur
    • July 30, 2017 2017 Golweyn ambush
    • November 21, 2017 November 2017 Somalia airstrike
    • April 1, 2018 2018 African Union base attack in Bulo Marer
    • December 15 – 16, 2018 December 2018 airstrikes in Gandarshe
    • September 3 – 5, 2020 Battle of Shabeelow
    • April 2, 2021 Awdheegle and Bariire attacks
    • April 25 – May 6, 2021 2021 Mogadishu mutiny
    • June 27, 2021 Battle of Wisil
    • August 10, 2021 2021 Golweyn ambush
    • August 24, 2021 Battle of Amara (2021)
    • September 30 – October 25, 2021 2021 Galmudug clashes
    • October 7, 2022 Battle of Bal'ad
    • December 12 – 22, 2022 Battle of Runirgod
    • January 6, 2023 Hilowle Gaab attack
    • January 17 – 19, 2023 Battle of Hawadley
    • May 26, 2023 Battle of Buulo Mareer
    • August 26, 2023 Battle of Osweyne
    • June 8, 2024 2024 El Dher attack
    • December 11, 2024 Battle of Ras Kamboni (2024)
    • February 20, 2025 – present 2025 Shabelle offensive
      • February 27 – 28, 2025 Battle of Bal'ad (2025)
  • 2023 – present Las Anod conflict (2023–present)
    • October 31 – November 1, 2024 2024 Buhodle clashes
    • December 14 – 15, 2024 Battle of Erigavo
    • January 11, 2025 Battle of Jiidali (2025)
  • 2024 – present Constitutional crisis in Somalia
    • December 11, 2024 – present Jubaland crisis

Indian Ocean islands

Comoros

• 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1809 – 1811 Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811
    • July 3, 1810 Action of 3 July 1810
• May 13, 1978 1978 Comorian coup d'état
• 1995 Operation Azalee
• April 30, 1999 1999 Comorian coup d'état
• 2008 Invasion of Anjouan
• April 2013 2013 Comorian coup attempt

Madagascar

• 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1809 – 1811 Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811
    • May 20, 1811 Battle of Tamatave
• 1883 – 1895 Franco-Hova Wars
  • 1883 – 1885 First Madagascar expedition
  • 1894 – 1895 Second Madagascar expedition
• 1895 – 1897 Menalamba rebellion
• 1904 – 1905 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
• 1915 – 1917 Sadiavahy Rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – August 15, 1945 Indian Ocean campaign
    • May 5 – November 6, 1942 Battle of Madagascar
• 1947 – 1949 Malagasy Uprising
• November 18, 2006 2006 Malagasy coup attempt
• 2009 2009 Malagasy political crisis
• 2009 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny
• November 17 – 18, 2010 2010 Madagascar coup attempt

Mauritius

• 1792 – 1797 War of the First Coalition
  • October 22, 1794 Battle of Île Ronde
• 1792 – 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1793 – 1801 East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars
    • December 11, 1799 Battle of Port Louis
• 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • • 1809 – 1811 Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811
    • August 20 – 27, 1810 Battle of Grand Port
    • November 29 – December 3, 1810 Invasion of Isle de France

Réunion

• 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1809 – 1811 Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811
    • September 21, 1809 Raid on Saint-Paul
    • July 7 – 9, 1810 Invasion of Isle Bonaparte
    • September 30, 1810 Action of 13 September 1810
    • September 18, 1810 Action of 18 September 1810
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – August 15, 1945 Indian Ocean campaign
    • November 28, 1942 Battle of Réunion

Seychelles

• 1798 – 1802 War of the Second Coalition
  • August 19, 1801 Battle of Mahé
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • May 8 1941 Action of 8 May 1941
• June 4 – 5, 1977 1977 Seychelles coup d'état
• November 25, 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
• 533 – 534 Vandalic War
• 533 – 548 Byzantine–Moorish wars
• 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
    • 647 – 709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 1492 – 1792 Spanish–Ottoman wars
  • 1526 – 1791 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
    • September – October 1516 Algiers expedition (1516)
    • January – May 1518 Fall of Tlemcen
    • August 1519 Algiers expedition (1519)
    • May 29, 1529 Capture of Peñón of Algiers
    • July 1531 Campaign of Cherchell (1531)
    • October – November 1541 Algiers expedition (1541)
  • 1537 – 1540 Third Ottoman–Venetian War
  • March 21 – April 1, 1543 Expedition to Mostaganem (1543)
  • August 21 – 28, 1547 Expedition to Mostaganem (1547)
  • August – September 1558 Expedition to Mostaganem (1558)
• 1550 – 1795 Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco
  • January 1551 Campaign of Tlemcen (1551)
  • 1557 Campaign of Tlemcen (1557)
  • July 20 –24, 1693 Siege of Oran (1693)
  • 1699 – 1702 Maghrebi war (1699–1702)
  • 1707 Oran expedition (1707)
• 1609 – 1628 Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628)
• 1628 Tunisian–Algerian War (1628)
• 1664 Djidjelli expedition
• 1681 – 1688 Franco–Algerian war (1681–1688)
• 1694 Tunisian–Algerian War (1694)
• 1707 – 1708 Siege of Oran (1707–1708)
• 1732 Spanish conquest of Oran (1732)
• 1769 – 1772 Danish–Algerian War
• 1775 – 1785 Spanish–Algerian War (1775–1785)
• 1785 – 1795 American–Algerian War (1785–1795)
• 1801 – 1815 Barbary Wars
  • 1815 Second Barbary War
• 1807 Tunisian–Algerian War (1807)
• 1811 Action of 22 May 1811
• 1813 Tunisian–Algerian War (1813)
• 1816 Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
• 1830 – 1903 French conquest of Algeria
  • June 14 – July 5, 1830 Invasion of Algiers
  • 1830 – 1875 Pacification of Algeria
  • 1871 – 1872 Mokrani Revolt
• 1939 – 1845 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – May 13, 1943 North African Campaign
      • November 8 – 16, 1942 Operation Torch
    • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Battle of the Mediterranean
      • July 3, 1940 Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
      • November 6, 1943 Action off Cape Bougaroun
• May 8 – June 26, 1945 Sétif and Guelma massacre
• 1954 – 1962 Algerian War
  • November 1, 1954 Toussaint Rouge
  • January 18, 1955 Battle of Douar Souadek
  • January 18 – February 24, 1955 Operation Véronique
  • September 20 – 28, 1955 First Battle of El Djorf
  • August 20, 1955 Battle of Philippeville
  • April 1956 — October 1, 1956 Operation Blue Bird
  • September 30, 1956 — September 24, 1957 Battle of Algiers (1956–1957)
  • May 23 — 25, 1957 Battle of Agounennda
  • August 4 – 12, 1957 Battle of Bouzegza
  • January 21, 1958 – 28 May 1958 Battle of the borders (Algerian war)
  • May 13 – 29, 1958 May 1958 crisis
  • May 28 – 31, 1958 Battle of Bab El Bekkouche
  • July 1959 — March 1960 Operation Jumelles
  • April 21 — 26, 1961 Algiers putsch
  • March 23 — April 6, 1962 Battle of Bab El Oued
• 1963 – 1964 Sand War
• 1963 – 1964 Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria
• June 19, 1965 1965 Algerian coup d'état
• December 14 – 16, 1967 1967 Algerian coup attempt
• 1970 – present Western Sahara conflict
• 1991 – 2002 Algerian Civil War
  • November 29, 1991 Guemmar attack
  • January 11, 1992 1992 Algerian coup d'état
  • June 29, 1992 Assassination of Mohamed Boudiaf
  • August 26, 1992 1992 Houari Boumédiène Airport bombings
  • December 14, 1993 Hidroelektra workers massacre
  • March 10, 1994 Tazoult prison escape
  • May 4, 1994 Tenes massacre
  • August 3, 1994 1994 Ain Allah attack
  • November 10, 1994 Berrouaghia prison massacre
  • December 24 – 26, 1994 Air France Flight 8969 hijacking
  • January 30, 1995 January 1995 Algiers bombing
  • March 26 – 31, 1995 Battle of Ain Defla
  • May 5, 1995 1995 Ghardaïa raid
  • February 11, 1996 Le Soir d'Algérie bombing
  • February 15 – 16, 1997 Tamesguida offensive
  • April 3 — 4, 1997 Thalit massacre
  • April 22, 1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre
  • April 23, 1997 Omaria massacre
  • April 27, 1997 Chouardia massacre
  • June 16, 1997 Daïat Labguer (M'sila) Massacre
  • July 27, 1997 Si Zerrouk massacre
  • August 3, 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre
  • August 20, 1997 — August 21, 1997 Souhane massacre
  • August 26, 1997 Beni Ali massacre
  • August 28, 1997 Rais massacre
  • September 5 — 6, 1997 Beni Messous massacre
  • September 19 — 20, 1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre
  • September 22 — 23, 1997 Bentalha massacre
  • December 23 — 24, 1997 Sid El-Antri massacre
  • December 30, 1997 Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997
  • January 4, 1998 Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998
  • January 11, 1998 Sidi-Hamed massacre
  • March 26, 1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre
  • December 8, 1998 Tadjena massacre
  • August 15, 1999 Beni Ounif massacre
  • February 8, 2002 Killing of Antar Zouabri
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • February 19 – August 17, 2003 2003 Sahara hostage crisis
  • September 2003 Sétif offensive
  • June 2004 Operation El-Kseur
  • July 29, 2005 2005 Tidjelabine bombing
  • June 19, 2006 2006 Tidjelabine bombing
  • August 8, 2006 2006 Boudouaou bombing
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
    • February 13, 2007 2007 Souk El Had bombing
    • April 11, 2007 2007 Algiers Government Palace bombings
    • September 6, 2007 2007 Batna bombing
    • September 8, 2007 2007 Dellys bombing
    • December 11, 2007 December 11, 2007, Algiers bombings
    • January 2, 2008 2008 Naciria bombing
    • January 29, 2008 2008 Thénia bombing
    • June 9, 2008 2008 Beni Amrane bombings
    • August 9, 2008 2008 Zemmouri bombing
    • August 19, 2008 2008 Issers bombing
    • June 17, 2009 2009 Algerian military ambush
    • April 7, 2010 2010 Tidjelabine bombing
    • August 18, 2010 August 2010 Baghlia bombing
    • September 21, 2010 2010 Bordj Menaïel bombing
    • January 11, 2012 2012 Thénia bombing
    • April 29, 2012 2012 Baghlia bombing
    • January 16 – 19, 2013 In Amenas hostage crisis

Egypt

Prehistoric Egypt

• c. 12th millennium BC War at Jebel Sahaba
• c. 3270 BC Siege of Naqada

Ancient Egypt

• c. 3100 BC Upper Egypt annexation of Lower Egypt
• c. 3100 BC Nubian campaign
• c. 3000 BC Djer's campaigns into Sinai
• c. 2970 BC Den's Eastern campaign
• c. 2900 BC Civil war between Horus Bird and Sneferka
• c. 2760 – 2740 BC Second Dynasty Civil War
• c. 2600 BC Campaigns of Sneferu
• c. 2000 BC War in Persenbet
• c. 1523 – 1517 BC Conquest of the Hyksos
• c. 1506 – 1502 BC Campaigns of Thutmose I
• c. 1493 – 1479 BC Campaigns of Thutmose II
• c. 1260 BC Ramesses II's Nubian Campaigns
• c. 1206 – 1150 BC Late Bronze Age collapse
  • c. 1203 – 1187 BC End of the 19th Dynasty
  • 1178 – 1175 BC Battle of the Nile Delta
  • 1179 – 1175 BC Battle of the Nile Delta
• 732 – 721 BC Nubian Conquest of Egypt
• 671 – 664 BC Esarhaddon's War against Egypt
• 525 BC First Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
• 499 – 449 BC Greco-Persian Wars
  • 477 – 449 BC Wars of the Delian League
• 340 – 339 BC Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
• 336 – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 133 BC – 44 BC Crisis of the Roman Republic
  • 49 – 45 BC Caesar's civil war
  • 32 – 30 BC War of Actium

Roman Egypt

• 115 – 117 Diaspora Revolt
• 235 – 284 Crisis of the Third Century
  • 270 Palmyrene invasion of Egypt
• 602 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
  • 618 – 621 Sasanian conquest of Egypt

Rashidun Caliphate

• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 639 – 642 Arab conquest of Egypt
    • May – December 640 Siege of Babylon Fortress
    • July 6, 640 Battle of Heliopolis
    • March – September 641 Siege of Alexandria (641)
    • May 646 Battle of Nikiou
• 656 – 661 First Fitna
  • 658 Umayyad invasions of Egypt
• June 17, 656 Assassination of Uthman

Umayyad Caliphate

• 720 – 832 Bashmurian revolts

Abbasid Caliphate

• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • May 22 – 24, 853 Sack of Damietta (853)
• 914 – 915 Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915)
• 919 – 921 Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921)
• 969 Fatimid conquest of Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate

• 971 First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt
• 973 – 974 Second Qarmatian invasion of Egypt
• 1163 – 1169 Crusader invasions of Egypt
  • March 18, 1167 Battle of al-Babein
  • Summer 1167 Siege of Alexandria (1167)
• 1169 Battle of the Blacks

Ayyubid Sultanate

• 1173 Turan-Shah's Nubian campaign
• 1217 – 1221 Fifth Crusade
  • August 26 – 28, 1221 Battle of Mansurah (1221)
• 1248 – 1254 Seventh Crusade
  • June 6, 1249 Siege of Damietta (1249)
  • February 8 – 11, 1250 Battle of Mansurah (1250)
  • April 6, 1250 Battle of Fariskur (1250)

Mamluk Sultanate

• 1251 Battle of al-Kura
• 1365 Alexandrian Crusade
• 1516 – 1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)

Ottoman Egypt

• 1492 – 1792 Spanish–Ottoman wars
• 1768 – 1774 Russo-Turkish war (1768–1774)
• 1792 – 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1798 – 1802 War of the Second Coalition
    • July 1, 1798 – September 2, 1801 French invasion of Egypt and Syria
      • May 16, 1801 Battle of Al Khankah
• 1803 – 1807 Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
• 1807 – 1809 Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809)
  • March 18 – September 25, 1807 Alexandria expedition of 1807

Khedivate of Egypt

• 1879 – 1882 Urabi revolt
• 1881 – 1899 Mahdist War
  • August 3, 1889 Battle of Toski

Sultanate of Egypt

• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • November 14, 1915 – May 1916 North African theatre of World War I
      • November 1915 – February 1917 Senussi campaign
        • February 26, 1916 Action of Agagia
• 1918 – 1919 1919 Egyptian revolution

Kingdom of Egypt

• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943 North African Campaign
      • June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943 Western Desert campaign
        • September 9 – 16, 1940 Italian invasion of Egypt
        • December 9, 1940 – February 9, 1941 Operation Compass
          • December 9, 1940 Attack on Nibeiwa
          • December 10 – 11, 1940 Battle of Sidi Barrani
        • May 15 – 16, 1941 Operation Brevity
        • May 26 – 27, 1941 Operation Skorpion
        • November 18 – December 30, 1941 Operation Crusader
        • June 26 – 29, 1942 Battle of Mersa Matruh
        • July 1 – 27, 1942 First Battle of El Alamein
          • July 26 – 27, 1942 Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield
        • August 30 – September 5, 1942 Battle of Alam el Halfa
        • September – October 1942 Operation Bertram
        • September 29, 1942 Operation Braganza
        • October 26 – 27, 1942 Defence of Outpost Snipe
        • October 23 – November 11, 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein
    • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Battle of the Mediterranean
      • December 19, 1941 Raid on Alexandria (1941)
  • February 4, 1942 1942 Abdeen Palace incident
• 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• 1952 Battle of Ismailia (1952)
• January 26, 1952 Cairo fire
• 1952 1952 Egyptian revolution

Arab Republic of Egypt

• 1956 Suez Crisis
• 1967 Six-Day War
  • June 5, 1967 Operation Focus
  • June 5 – 6, 1967 Battle of Abu-Ageila (1967)
  • June 8, 1967 Ras Sedr massacre
  • June 8, 1967 USS Liberty incident
• 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
  • July 11, 1967 Battle of Rumani Coast
  • October 31, 1968 Operation Shock
  • July 19, 1969 Operation Bulmus 6
  • July 20 – 28, 1969 Operation Boxer
  • September 9, 1969 Operation Raviv
  • December 26 – 27, 1969 Operation Rooster 53
  • January 22, 1970 Operation Rhodes
  • July 30, 1970 Operation Rimon 20
• 1973 Yom Kippur War
  • October 6 – 8, 1973 Operation Badr (1973)
  • October 6 – 15, 1973 Battles of Fort Budapest
  • October 6, 1973 Battle of Fort Lahtzanit
  • October 6, 1973 Ofira Air Battle
  • October 7, 1973 Romani ambush
  • October 7, 1973 Battle of Marsa Talamat
  • October 7, 1973 Operation Tagar
  • October 8 – 9, 1973 Battle of Baltim
  • October 14, 1973 Battle of the Sinai
  • October 14, 1973 Air battle of Mansoura
  • October 15 – 23, 1973 Operation Abirey-Halev
  • October 15 – 17, 1973 Battle of the Chinese Farm
  • October 16, 1973 16 October 1973 raid on Egyptian missile bases
  • October 17, 1973 Egyptian 25th Brigade ambush
  • October 18 – 22, 1973 Battle of Ismailia
  • October 22, 1973 October 22 Scud missile attack
  • October 24 – 25, 1973 Battle of Suez
• 1977 Libyan–Egyptian War
• 1981 – present Terrorism in Egypt
  • 2011 – 2023 Sinai insurgency
    • August 14, 2011 – September 2012 Operation Eagle
    • August 5, 2012 August 2012 Sinai attack
    • August 7, 2012 – January 25, 2023 Operation Sinai (2012)
    • February 16, 2014 2014 Taba bus bombing
    • October 24, 2014 October 2014 Sinai attacks
    • January 29, 2015 January 2015 Sinai Attacks
    • July 1 – 2, 2015 July 2015 Sinai clashes
    • September 7, 2015 – January 25, 2023 Operation Martyr's Right
    • November 24, 2015 Arish hotel bombing
    • October 14, 2016 October 2016 Sinai attacks
    • July 7, 2017 2017 Rafah terror attack
    • November 24, 2017 2017 Sinai mosque attack
    • July 21 – October 12, 2020 Battles of Iqtiya, Qatiya, Genayen, and Merih
    • May 8, 2022 2022 El Qantara checkpoint attack
  • 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 of 2011
  • February 12, 2011 – June 30, 2012 Timeline of the Egyptian Crisis under the SCAF
  • June 30, 2012 – November 22, 2012 Timeline of the Egyptian Crisis under Mohamed Morsi
  • 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
  • July 3, 2013 – June 8, 2014 Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
    • July 8, 2013 Republican Guard headquarters clashes
    • August 14, 2013 Rabaa massacre
    • August 14, 2013 Kerdasa massacre
    • September 19, 2013 Kerdasa raid
    • December 24, 2013 December 2013 Mansoura bombing
    • January 24 – 25, 2014 January 2014 Cairo bombings
    • July 19, 2014 2014 Farafra ambush
• April 4 – 14, 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
• 429 – 442 Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
• 461 - 468 Vandal War (461–468)
• 533 – 534 Vandalic War
• 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 647 – 709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 761 Abbasid conquest of Ifriqiya
• 1510 Spanish conquest of Tripoli
• 1526 – 1791 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
  • 1551 Siege of Tripoli (1551)
• 1681 – 1685 French–Tripolitania War
• 1699 – 1702 Maghrebi war (1699–1702)
• 1705 Siege of Tripoli (1705)
• 1711 1711 Karamanli coup
• 1728 Bombardment of Tripoli (1728)
• 1790 – 1795 Tripolitanian civil war
• 1797 Action of 16 May 1797
• 1801 – 1805 First Barbary War
• September 5, 1816 al-Jawazi massacre
• 1825 Battle of Tripoli (1825)
• 1828 Bombardment of Tripoli (1828)
• 1835 – 1858 1835-1858 revolt in Ottoman Tripolitania
• 1860 – 1890 Barasa–Ubaidat War
• 1911 – 1932 Libyan resistance movement
  • 1911 – 1912 Italo-Turkish War
    • 1911 Italian invasion of Libya
  • 1923 – 1932 Second Italo-Senussi War
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • November 14, 1915 – May 1916 North African theatre of World War I
      • November 1915 – February 1917 Senussi campaign
        • April 7, 1915 Battle of Wadi Marsit
        • April 28, 1915 Battle of Gasr Bu Hadi
        • May 13, 1915 First Battle of Sidi Abu Arqub (1915)
        • March 17, 1916 Bir Hakeim rescue
• 1920 – 1922 1920–1922 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – May 13, 1943 North African campaign
      • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Battle of the Mediterranean
        • December 17, 1941 First Battle of Sirte
        • March 22, 1942 Second Battle of Sirte
        • January 19 – 20, 1943 Battle off Zuwarah
      • June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943 Western Desert Campaign
        • December 9, 1940 – February 9, 1941 Operation Compass
          • December 25, 1940 – March 21, 1941 Siege of Giarabub
          • January 3 – 5, 1941 Battle of Bardia
          • January 6 – 22, 1941 British capture of Tobruk
          • January 24, 1941 Action at Mechili
          • January 31 – March 1, 1941 Capture of Kufra
          • February 6 – 7, 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm
        • February 6 – May 25, 1941 Operation Sonnenblume
        • April 10 – November 27, 1941 Siege of Tobruk
          • April 19 – 20, 1941 Raid on Bardia
          • April 27 – 28, 1941 Twin Pimples raid
        • May 15 – 16, 1941 Operation Brevity
        • June 15 – 17, 1941 Operation Battleaxe
        • November 10 – 18, 1941 Operation Flipper
        • November 18 – December 30, 1941 Operation Crusader
          • November 19, 1941 Action at Bir el Gubi (November 1941)
          • November 29 – December 1, 1941 Battle of Point 175
          • December 4 – 7, 1941 Action at Bir el Gubi (December 1941)
        • May 26 – June 21, 1942 Battle of Gazala
          • May 26 – June 11, 1942 Battle of Bir Hakeim
          • June 17 – 21, 1942 Axis capture of Tobruk
        • June 26 – 29, 1942 Battle of Mersa Matruh
        • September 13 – 14, 1942 Operation Agreement
          • September 1942 Operation Bigamy
          • September 1942 Operation Caravan
      • September 15 – 16, 1942 Operation Nicety
      • December 11 – 18, 1942 Battle of El Agheila
    • January 22 – 23, 1943 Battle of Tripoli (1943)
• 1954 – 1962 Algerian War
  • October 3 – 4, 1957 Battle of Essien (1957)
• September 1, 1969 1969 Libyan revolution
• December 7, 1969 1969 Libyan coup attempt
• 1970 Black Prince conspiracy
• 1977 Egyptian-Libyan War
• 1978 – 1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict
  • 1986 – 1987 Toyota War
• 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
• 1984 Bab al-Azizia siege
• 1986 Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986)
• 1986 1986 United States bombing of Libya
• 1987 – 1988 Abu Nidal Organization internal executions
• 1989 1989 air battle near Tobruk
• October 22, 1993 1993 Libyan coup attempt
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
• 2008 2008 Kufra conflict
• 2011 First Libyan Civil War
  • February 15 — 20, 2011 First Battle of Benghazi
  • February 16 – 17, 2011 Battle of Bayda
  • 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 – July 29, 2011 Battle of Wazzin
    • August 13 — 18, 2011 Battle of Gharyan
  • March 2, 2011 First Battle of Brega
  • March 4 – 12, 2011 Battle of Ras Lanuf
  • March 6, 2011 Battle of Bin Jawad
  • March 13 – 15, 2011 Second Battle of Brega
  • March 15 – 26, 2011 Battle of Ajdabiya
  • March 19 – 20, 2011 Second Battle of Benghazi
  • March 26 – 30, 2011 First Gulf of Sidra offensive
  • March 31 – April 7, 2011 Third Battle of Brega
  • April 8 – July 13, 2011 Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road
  • April 3 – June 12, 2011 Cyrenaican desert campaign
  • May 16 – August 23, 2011 Battle of the Misrata frontline
    • June 9 – June 16, 2011 Zliten uprising
    • July 21 – August 19, 2011 Battle of Zliten
    • August 11 – 13, 2011 Battle of Tawergha
  • June 8 – 13, 2011 2011 Sabha clashes
  • June 11 – 12, 2011 Zawiya skirmish
  • July 14 – August 22, 2011 Fourth Battle of Brega
  • July 17 – September 27, 2011 Fezzan campaign
    • September 19 – 22, 2011 Battle of Sabha
  • August 3 – 9, 2011 2011 Msallata clashes
  • August 13 – 28, 2011 2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive
    • August 13 – 20, 2011 Second Battle of Zawiya
    • August 13 – 26, 2011 2011 Ras Ajdir clashes
  • August 20 – 28, 2011 Battle of Tripoli (2011)
  • August 22 – October 20, 2011 Second Gulf of Sidra offensive
    • August 23 – 27, 2011 Second Battle of Bin Jawad
    • September 15 – October 20, 2011 Battle of Sirte (2011)
  • September 8 – October 17, 2011 Battle of Bani Walid
  • September 12, 2011 Raid on Ras Lanuf
  • September 24 – 26, 2011 Raid on Ghadames
  • October 14, 2011 Tripoli clashes (mid-October 2011)
• 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, 2013 – July 29, 2013 2013 Benghazi conflict
  • October 10, 2013 2013 Libyan coup attempt
  • February 14 — May 18, 2014 2014 Libyan coup attempts
• 2014 – 2020 Second Libyan Civil War
  • May 18 – July 29, 2014 Battle of Benghazi (2014)
  • August 1 – October 15, 2014 Battle of Benina Airport
  • July 13 — August 23, 2014 Battle of Tripoli Airport
  • September 2014 – February 2019 Ubari conflict
  • October 5, 2014 — April 21, 2016 Derna campaign (2014–2016)
  • October 15, 2014 – December 30, 2017 Battle of Benghazi (2014–2017)
  • November 24, 2014 Battle of Kikla (2014)
  • February 8 — 9, 2015 Fall of Nofaliya (2015)
  • February 16, 2015 February 2015 Egyptian airstrikes in Libya
  • March 14 – May 31, 2015 Battle of Sirte (2015)
  • January 4, 2016 Fall of Bin Jawad (2016)
  • April 27, 2016 Misrata ambush
  • May 12 – December 6, 2016 Battle of Sirte (2016)
  • August 2016 – February 12, 2019 Siege of Derna
  • October 14, 2016 – November 14, 2018 Western Libya clashes (2016–2018)
    • August 27 – September 25, 2018 Battle of Tripoli (2018)
  • March 3 – 14 2017 Gulf of Sidra Offensive (2017)
  • May 18, 2017 Brak al-Shati Airbase raid
  • May 7, 2018 – February 12, 2019 Battle of Derna (2018–2019)
  • June 11 – 21, 2018 Gulf of Sidra Offensive (2018)
  • December 27, 2018 Battle of Traghan
  • December 19, 2018 Battle of Saddada Castle
  • January – April 2019 Southern Libya offensive
    • January 15 – February 4, 2019 Battle of Sabha (2019)
    • August 5, 2019 2019 Murzuq airstrike
  • April 4, 2019 – June 5, 2020 Western Libya campaign
    • April 4, 2019 – June 26, 2019 Battle of Gharyan (2019)
    • April 7, 2019 – June 6, 2020 Operation Volcano of Rage
    • July 2, 2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike
    • August 6, 2019 2019 Misrata airstrike
    • August 16, 2019 2019 Zuwarah airstrike
    • January 4, 2020 Tripoli military school airstrike
    • January 6, 2020 Battle of Sirte (2020)
  • June 6 – 11, 2020 Central Libya offensive
    • April 8, 2019 – May 19, 2020 Battle of Al-Watiya Airbase
    • July 4, 2020 2020 Al-Watiya airstrike
• 2022 2022 Tripoli clashes
• 2023 2023 Tripoli clashes
• 2025 2025 Tripoli clashes

Morocco

Main article: List of conflicts in Morocco

• 264 BC – 146 BC Punic Wars
• 112 BC – 106 BC Jugurthine War
• 429 – 442 Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
• 533 – 534 Vandalic War
• 544 Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 647 – 709 Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
• 718 – 1492 Reconquista
  • 1399 Sack of Tétouan (1399)
• 739 – 743 Berber Revolt
• 1033 1033 Fez massacre
• 1130 – 1147 Almoravid-Almohad War
• 1215 – 1269 Almohad-Marinid War
• 1125 – 1269 Almohad-Marinid War
• 1260 Battle of Salé
• 1299 – 1370 Morocco-Tlemcen conflict
• 1415 – 1578 Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts
  • September 13, 1437 Battle of Tangier (1437)
  • August 24, 1471 Conquest of Asilah
  • August 28 – 29, 1513 Battle of Azemmour
  • July 1515 Battle of Mamora (1515)
  • March – September 1541 Fall of Agadir
  • February 18 – May 7, 1562 Siege of Mazagan (1562)
• 1465 1465 Moroccan revolt
• 1527 – 1554 Wattassid-Saadian War
• 1550 – 1795 Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco
  • January 7, 1554 Capture of Fez (1554)
  • September 1554 Battle of Tadla
  • March – April 1558 Battle of Wadi al-Laban
  • March 1576 Capture of Fez (1576)
  • August 4, 1578 Battle of Alcácer Quibir
  • May – June 1692 Battle of Moulouya
  • Early 1769 – March 11, 1769 Siege of Mazagan (1769)
  • 1792 Capture of the Rif (1792)
• 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 Succession War
• 1614 Capture of La Mámora
• 1680 Great Siege of Tangier
• 1681 Siege of Mamora (1681)
• 1689 Siege of Larache (1689)
• 1690 – 1691 Siege of Asilah (1690–1691)
• 1765 Larache expedition
• 1775 – 1777 Dutch–Moroccan War (1775–1777)
• 1784 Moroccan seizure of the Betsey
• 1844 First Franco-Moroccan War
• 1851 Bombardment of Salé (1851)
• 1856 Battle of Tres Forcas
• 1859 Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–60)
• 1893 Tafilalt expedition
• 1893 – 1894 First Melillan campaign
• 1905 – 1906 Tangier Crisis
• 1907 – 1934 French conquest of Morocco
• 1909 Second Melillan campaign
• 1911 Agadir Crisis
• 1914 – 1921 Zaian War
  • November 13, 1914 Battle of El Herri
• 1920 – 1926 Rif War
  • June 10, 1940 – May 23, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – May 13, 1943 North African Campaign
• April 7, 1947 1947 Casablanca massacre
• June 7 – 8, 1948 1948 anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada
• December 7 – 8, 1952 Casablanca Uprisings of 1952
• August 16, 1953 1953 Oujda revolt
• 1957 – 1958 Ifni War
• 1958 – 1959 Rif Revolt
• 1963 – 1964 Sand War
• 1970 – present Western Sahara conflict
  • 1975 – 1991 Western Sahara War
    • August 24, 1979 Attack on Lebouirate
• July 10, 1971 1971 Moroccan coup attempt
• August 16, 1972 1972 Moroccan coup attempt
• January 19, 1984 – 20, 1984 Moroccan Intifada of 1984
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
• 2002 Perejil Island crisis

Sudan

• c. 3050 BCE Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians
• 1575 – 1550 BC Egyptian Invasion 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.
• c. 1282 BCE Seti's military campaigns
• c. 1279 BCE – 1213 BCE Remesses II's campaigns in Nubia
• 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 Ezana of Axum launched several military campaigns, destroying the Kingdom of Kush
• 642 First battle of Dongola
• 1312 Mamluk Invasion
• 1722 – 1786 Civil War
• 1820 – 1824 Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1820–1824)
• 1873 – 1874 Conquest of Darfur (1873–1874)
• 1881 – 1899 The Mahdist War
  • November 3 – 5, 1883 Battle of Shaykan
  • February 4 – 29, 1884 First and Second Battles of El Teb
  • March 13 1884 Battle of Tamai
  • March 13, 1884 – January 26, 1885 Siege of Khartoum
  • January 17, 1885 Battle of Abu Klea
  • February 10, 1885 Battle of Kirbekan
  • March 22, 1885 Battle of Tofrek
  • December 30, 1885 Battle of Ginnis
  • December 20, 1888 Battle of Suakin
  • March 9– 10, 1889 Battle of Gallabat
  • July 17, 1894 Battle of Kassala
  • June 7, 1896 Battle of Ferkeh
  • April 8, 1898 Battle of Atbara
  • September 2, 1898 Battle of Omdurman
  • November 25, 1899 Battle of Umm Diwaykarat
• 1908 Wad Habuba Revolt
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • November 14, 1915 – May 1916 Military operations in North Africa during World War I
    • March 16 – November 6, 1916 Invasion of Darfur (1916)
• 1939 – 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
• 1955 – 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
  • November 17, 1958 1958 Sudanese coup d'état
  • May 25, 1969 1969 Sudanese coup d'état
• 1983 – 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
  • April 6, 1985 1985 Sudanese coup d'état
  • 1987 – 1989 War of the Tribes
  • June 30, 1989 1989 Sudanese coup d'état
• March 27 – 28, 1987 1987 Dhein massacre
• August 20, 1998 Operation Infinite Reach
• 2003 – 2020 War in Darfur
  • May 10 – 12, 2008 2008 Omdurman attack
• 2006 Battle of Malakal
• 2008 – ongoing Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • 2009 2009 Sobat River ambush
  • 2010 2010 South Darfur clash
• January – February 2009 2009 Sudan airstrikes
• 2011 – 2020 Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
• 2012 Heglig Crisis
• December 19, 2018 – October 10, 2019 Sudanese Revolution
  • April 11, 2019 2019 Sudanese coup d'état
• October 25 – November 21, 2021 2021 Sudanese coup d'état
• 2022 – 2023 Blue Nile clashes (2022–2023)
• 2023 2023 Foro Baranga clashes
• 2023 – present Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
  • April 15, 2023 – May 20, 2025 Battle of Khartoum (2023–2025)
    • April 15, 2023 – March 25, 2025 RSF occupation of the Khartoum International Airport
    • September 26, 2024 – February 17, 2025 2024–2025 Bahri offensive
  • April 15, 2023 – present Darfur campaign (2023–present)
    • April 15, 2023 – June 14, 2023 Battle of Geneina
    • April 15 – October 26, 2023 Battle of Nyala
    • April 15, 2023 – present Siege of El Fasher
    • May 30 – June 4, 2023 Battle of Kutum
  • April 15 – 21, 2023 Battle of Merowe Airport
  • April 15, 2023 – February 23, 2025 Siege of El Obeid
  • June 8, 2023 – present Battle of Kadugli
  • June 21, 2023 – February 24, 2025 Battle of Dilling
  • December 15, 2023 – January 11, 2025 Battle of Wad Madani
  • January 22, 2024 – present Siege of Babanusa
  • June 19 – 20, 2024 Battle of Al Funah
  • June 25, 2024 – March 5, 2025 Sennar offensive
    • June 25 – October 5, 2024 Battle of Jebel Moya
  • May 3 – 9, 2025 2025 East Sudan drone attacks

Tunisia

Carthaginian Empire

• 264 BC – 146 BC Punic Wars
  • 264 BC – 241 BC First Punic War
    • 255 BC Siege of Aspis
    • 256 BC Battle of Adys
    • 255 BC Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC)
  • 240 BC – 238 BC Mercenary War
    • January – February 240 BC Battle of Utica
    • 240 BC Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC)
    • 240 BC Hamilcar's victory with Naravas
    • 238 BC Battle of the Saw
    • October 238 BC Siege of Tunis
    • 238 BC Battle of Leptis Parva
  • 218 BC – 201 BC Second Punic War
    • 204 BC – 201 BC Roman invasion of Africa (204–201 BC)
      • 203 BC Battle of Utica (203 BC)
      • 203 BC Battle of the Great Plains
      • 202 BC Battle of Zama
  • 149 BC – 146 BC Third Punic War
    • 147 BC Battle of the Port of Carthage
    • 147 BC Battle of Nepheris (147 BC)
    • 149 BC – Spring 146 BC Battle of Carthage (149 BC)

Kingdom of Numidia

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

Roman Province of Africa

• 238 Battle of Carthage (238)
• 429 – 432 Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
• 439 Vandal War (439-442)
• 461 - 468 Vandal War (461–468)
  • 468 Battle of Cape Bon (468)

Vandal Kingdom

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

Byzantine Praetorian Prefecture of Africa

• 533 – 548 Byzantine–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 (698)

Aghlabids

• 824 – 836 Military mutiny
• 879 – 880 Invasion of al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
• 1087 Mahdia campaign of 1087

Fatimid Caliphate

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

Almohad Caliphate

• 1159 – 1160 Almohad conquest of Ifriqiya
• 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
• 1329 Capture of Tunis (1329)
• 1390 Barbary Crusade
• 1424 Aragonese expedition to Tunisia of 1424

Ottoman Tunisia

• 1492 – 1792 Spanish–Ottoman wars
  • 1526 – 1791 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
    • June 28 – September 8, 1550 Capture of Mahdia (1550)
    • August 16, 1534 Conquest of Tunis (1534)
    • June 1535 Conquest of Tunis (1535)
    • May 9 – 14, 1560 Battle of El Djerba
    • July 12 – September 13, 1574 Conquest of Tunis (1574)
    • July 30 – August 4, 1609 Raid on La Goulette (1609)
    • September 28 – October 2, 1611 Raid on the Kerkennah Islands
    • May 23, 1612 Raid on La Goulette (1612)
    • December 1615 Raid on La Goulette (1615)
    • October 1617 Raid on La Goulette (1617)
    • June 4, 1624 Battle of the Gulf of Tunis
• 1665 Action of March 1665
• 1699 – 1702 Maghrebi war (1699–1702)
  • 1699 – 1700 Constantine campaign (1699–1700)
• 1675 – 1705 Revolutions of Tunis

Beylik of Tunis

• 1705 Tunisian–Algerian War (1705)
• 1735 Capture of Tunis (1735)
• 1742 Tabarka expedition (1742)
• 1756 Capture of Tunis (1756)
• 1784 – 1786 Venetian bombardments of the Beylik of Tunis
• 1811 Action of 22 May 1811
• 1813 Tunisian–Algerian War (1813)
• 1864 – 1865 Mejba Revolt
• 1881 French conquest of Tunisia

French Protectorate of Tunisia

• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 – May 13, 1943 North African Campaign
      • November 17, 1942 – May 13, 1943 Tunisia Campaign
        • November 10 – December 25, 1942 Run for Tunis
        • February – May 1943 Battle of Sedjenane
        • February 14 – 17, 1943 Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
        • February 19 – 25, 1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass
        • March 6, 1943 Battle of Medenine
        • March 16 – 27, 1943 Battle of the Mareth Line
        • 23 March – 3 April 1943 Battle of El Guettar
        • 5–27 April 1943 Operation Flax
        • 6–7 April 1943 Battle of Wadi Akarit
        • April 22 – May 1, 1943 Operation Vulcan
        • May 6 – 12, 1943 Operation Strike
        • May 8 – 13, 1943 Operation Retribution
    • June 10, 1940 – May 2, 1945 Battle of the Mediterranean
      • December 13, 1941 Battle of Cape Bon (1941)
• 1952 – 1956 Tunisian Independence movement
  • 1952 – 1954 Tunisian Guerilla

Republic of Tunisia

• 1961 Bizerte crisis
• 1961 Battle of marker 233
• 1980 1980 Gafsa Uprising
• December 29, 1983 – January 5, 1984 Tunisian bread riots
• October 1, 1985 Operation Wooden Leg
• November 7, 1987 1987 Tunisian coup d'état
• 2002 – present Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • April 11, 2002 Ghriba synagogue bombing
  • December 23, 2006 – January 3, 2007 2006–2007 Tunisia clashes
    • January 3, 2007 Soliman Shooting
  • 2012 – 2019 Chaambi Operations
    • July 16, 2014 2014 Chaambi Mountains attack
  • February 3 – 4, 2014 Raoued Operation
• December 18, 2010 – January 14, 2011 Tunisian Revolution
• 2011 First Libyan Civil War
  • March 1 — August 18, 2011 2011 Nafusa Mountains campaign
    • April 21 – July 29, 2011 Battle of Wazzin
• 2013 Battle of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun
• 2015 – 2024 ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
  • March 18, 2015 Bardo National Museum attack
  • June 26, 2015 2015 Sousse attacks
  • November 24, 2015 2015 Tunis bombing
  • March 7 – 9, 2016 Battle of Ben Guerdane
  • June 27, 2019 2019 Tunis bombings
• July 25, 2021 2021 Tunisian self-coup

Western Sahara

• 1970 – present Western Sahara conflict
  • 1973 – 1976 Sahrawi insurgency
  • 1975 Green March
  • 1975 – 1991 Western Sahara War
    • December 10 – 22, 1975 Battles of La Güera and Tichla
    • January 27 – 29, 1976 First Battle of Amgala
    • February 14 – 15, 1976 Second Battle of Amgala
    • August 11, 1979 Battle of Bir Anzarane (1979)
    • October 5 – 8, 1979 Battle of Smara (1979)
    • July 12, 1979 Attack on Tichla
    • October 13 – 23, 1981 Battle of Guelta Zemmur (1981)
    • January 17, 1985 Battle of Al Mahbes (1985)
    • November 18, 1987 Battles of Farsia and Oum Dreyga
    • October 7, 1989 Battle of Guelta Zemmur (1989)
    • October 11, 1989 Battle of Hausa (1989)
    • November 18, 1989 Battle of Amgala (1989)
    • August 4 – September 6, 1991 1991 Tifariti offensive
  • 2020 – present Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)

Southern Africa

Angola

• 1580 – 1582 Cuanza River Campaign
• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
  • June – December 1, 1624 Filips van Zuylen's campaign against Luanda
  • October 29, 1647 Battle of Kombi
  • 1648 Recapture of Angola
• 1622 Battle of Mbumbi
• 1523 Battle of Mbanda Kasi
• 1665 – 1709 Kongo Civil War
  • October 29, 1665 Battle of Mbwila
  • June 1670 Battle of Mbidizi River
  • October 18, 1670 Battle of Kitombo
  • February 15, 1709 Battle of São Salvador
• 1671 Battle of Pungo Andongo
• 1681 Battle of Katole
• 1685 Battle of Talandongo
• 1691 – 1693 Mbwila Rebellion of 1691–1693
• 1723 Cabinda Expedition
• 1774 – 1778 Portuguese–Ovimbundu War
• 1902 – 1904 Bailundo revolt
• 1907 Battle of Mufilo
• 1914 – 1918 World War II
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • September 15, 1914 – July 9, 1915 South West Africa campaign
      • October 18, 1914 – July 9, 1915 German campaign in Angola
        • October 19, 1914 Naulila Incident
        • December 18, 1914 Battle of Naulila
      • December 18, 1914 – February 6, 1917 Ovambo Uprising
• 1961 – 1974 Portuguese Colonial War
  • 1961 – 1974 Angolan War of Independence
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
• February 25 – 26, 1979 Operation Vanity
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War
  • May 4 – 10, 1978 Operation Reindeer
    • May 4, 1978 Battle of Cassinga
  • November 1, 1976 – March 31, 1977 Operation Seiljag
  • March 6 – 13, 1979 Operation Rekstok
  • June 10 – July 1, 1980 Operation Sceptic
  • July 30, 1980 Operation Klipklop
  • December 19, 1980 Operation Wishbone
  • August 21 – 23, 1981 Operation Konyn
  • August 23 – September 2, 1981 Operation Protea
  • November 1 – 20, 1981 Operation Daisy
  • November 30, 1981 Operation Kerslig
  • March 9 – 14, 1982 Operation Super
  • July 31 – August 25, 1982 Operation Mebos
  • May – June 1983 Operation Dolfyn
  • December 29, 1983 Operation Klinker
  • December 8, 1983 – January 13, 1984 Operation Askari
  • July 15 – August 7, 1984 Operation Nobilis
  • June 29 – 30, 1985 Operation Boswilger
  • September 15 – 22, 1985 Operation Egret
  • May 13 – 21, 1985 Operation Argon
  • October 5 – November 3, 1985 Operation Cerebus (1985)
  • October 31, 1987 Operation Firewood
  • May – June 1988 Operation Excite/Hilti
  • April 30 – August 30, 1988 Operation Displace
• 1975 – present Cabinda War
• 1975 – 2002 Angolan Civil War
  • October 14, 1975 – January 1, 1976 Operation Savannah (Angola)
    • November 10, 1975 Battle of Quifangondo
  • May 27, 1977 1977 Angolan coup attempt
  • July – August 1983 Operation Karton
  • August 23 – September 10, 1985 Operation Magneto
  • September 7, – October 6, 1985 Operation Wallpaper
  • December 18, 1985 – February 1986 Operation Abrasion
  • July 1986 Operation Southern Cross
  • August 9 – 17, 1986 Operation Alpha Centauri
  • August 14, 1987 – March 23, 1988 Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
    • July 12 – October 7, 1987 Operation Saluting October
    • August 4 – November 30, 1987 Operation Moduler
    • 1987 – 1988 Operation Hooper
    • March 12 – April 30, 1988 Operation Packer
  • October 30 – November 1, 1992 Halloween Massacre (Angola)
  • January 9 – March 6, 1993 55 Day War
  • September – December 1999 Operation Restore

Botswana

• 1852 Battle of Dimawe
• 1899 – 1902 Second Boer War
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
  • September 18, 1976 Operation Ignition
• June 14, 1985 Raid on Gaborone

Eswatini

• 1899 – 1902 Second Boer War

Lesotho

• 1852 Battle of Berea
• 1858 − 1868 Free State–Basotho Wars
• 1880 – 1881 Basotho Gun War
• 1899 – 1902 Second Boer War
• January 30, 1970 1970 Lesotho coup d'état
• 1974 – 1990 BCP Insurgency
• January 20, 1986 1986 Lesotho coup d'état
• April 30, 1991 1991 Lesotho coup d'état
• August 17, 1994 1994 Lesotho coup d'état
• 1998 South African intervention in Lesotho
• August 30, 2014 2014 Lesotho political crisis

Malawi

• 1915 Chilembwe uprising
  • January 23, 1915 Livingstone Bruce Plantation Raid
  • January 24, 1915 Blantyre raid
  • January 25 – 26, 1915 Siege of Mbombwe
• March 3, 1959 – June 16, 1960 Nyasaland emergency of 1959
  • March 3 – 5, 1959 Operation Sunrise
• 1992 – 1993 Operation Bwezani

Mozambique

• 1847 – 1910 Angoche–Portuguese conflicts (1847–1910)
• 1895 Battle of Marracuene
• 1895 Battle of Coolela
• 1896 Battle of Mugenga
• 1897 Second Battle of Macontene
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 East African campaign (World War I)
      • August 24, 1914 Maziua raid
      • November 25, 1917 Battle of Ngomano
      • July 1 – 3, 1918 Battle of Namacurra
      • July 30 – 31, 1918 Battle of Lioma
• 1917 – 1918 Barue uprising
• 1964 – 1974 Mozambican War of Independence
  • July 2 – September 6, 1965 Operation Eagle (Portugal)
  • April 1 – 10, 1968 Operation Mars (Portugal)
  • June 6 – 11, 1969 Operation Zeta
  • July 1 – August 6, 1970 Operation Gordian Knot
  • July 20 – 30, 1970 Operation Abanadela
  • April 1972 Operation Penada
  • December 16, 1972 Wiriyamu Massacre
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
  • May 20 – July 13, 1968 Operation Flotilla
  • June 25 – 26, 1976 Operation Long John
  • August 9, 1976 Operation Eland
  • May 28 – June 2, 1977 Operation Aztec
  • November 23 – 25, 1977 Operation Dingo
  • September 20, 1978 Operation Snoopy
  • June 4, 1979 Operation Chamber
  • June 9, 1979 Operation Mineral
  • September 1 – 8, 1979 Operation Uric
  • September 27 – October 6, 1979 Operation Miracle
• 1977 – 1992 Mozambican Civil War
  • March 23, 1979 Beira fuel depot attack
  • January – February 1980 Gorogonsa Offensive
  • April – July 1980 Operation Leopard (1980)
  • January 30, 1981 Operation Beanbag
  • May 23, 1983 Operation Skerwe
  • October 28, 1987 Second Taninga massacre
  • November 28, 1987 Maluana massacre
• 2013 – 2021 RENAMO insurgency (2013–2021)
• 2017 – ongoing Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • April 7, 2020 Xitaxi massacre
  • June 27 – 29, 2020 Battle of Mocímboa da Praia
  • August 5 – 11, 2020 Mocímboa da Praia offensive
  • November 6 – 8, 2020 Muatide massacre
  • March 24 – April 5, 2021 Battle of Palma
  • July – November 2021 2021 Cabo Delgado offensives
    • August 12 – 22, 2021 Battle of Mbau
    • April 22 – October 29, 2021 Battle of Mucojo
    • February 9, 2024 2024 Mucojo attack

Namibia

• 1896 Khaua-Mbandjeru rebellion
• 1904 – 1908 Herero Wars
  • January 28, 1904 Battle of Namutoni
  • August 11, 1904 Battle of Waterberg
  • 1904 – 1908 Herero and Nama genocide
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • September 15, 1914 – July 9, 1915 South West Africa campaign
      • September 26, 1914 Battle of Sandfontein
      • April 26, 1915 Battle of Trekkopjes
      • July 1, 1915 Battle of Otavi
• 1922 Bondelswarts Rebellion
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War
  • August 26, 1966 Battle of Ongulumbashe
  • November 1, 1976 – March 31, 1977 Operation Seiljag
  • February 15 – April 15, 1983 Operation Phoenix (South Africa)
  • April 1 – 9, 1989 Operation Merlyn
• 1994 – 1999 Caprivi conflict

South Africa

See also: List of battles in South Africa

• 1510 Battle of Salt River
• 1659 – 1677 Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars
• 1779 – 1879 Xhosa Wars
• 1792 – 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1792 – 1797 War of the First Coalition
    • June 10 – September 15, 1795 Invasion of the Cape Colony
    • February 9, 1799 Action of 9 February 1799 (South Africa)
• 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1805 – 1806 War of the Third Coalition
    • January 8 – 18, 1806 Battle of Blaauwberg
• 1810s – 1840s Mfecane
• 1815 Slachter's Nek Rebellion
• 1817 – 1819 Ndwandwe–Zulu War
  • April 1818 Battle of Gqokli Hill
• 1820 Battle of Mhlatuze River
• 1830s – 1840s Great Trek
  • October 16, 1836 Battle of Vegkop
  • February 6, 1838 Piet Retief Delegation massacre
  • February 17, 1838 Weenen Massacre
  • April 9, 1838 Battle of Italeni
  • December 16, 1838 Battle of Blood River
  • January 29, 1840 Battle of Maqongqo
  • May 23, 1842 Battle of Congella
  • August 28, 1848 Battle of Boomplaats
• 1862 – 1864 Transvaal Civil War
• 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
  • January 12, 1879 Action at Sihayo's kraal
  • January 20 – 24, 1879 Zungwini Mountain skirmishes
  • January 22, 1879 Battle of Inyezane
  • January 22, 1879 Battle of Isandlwana
  • January 22 – 23, 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift
  • January 22 – April 3, 1879 Siege of Eshowe
  • March 12, 1879 Battle of Intombe
  • March 28, 1879 Battle of Hlobane
  • March 29, 1879 Battle of Kambula
  • April 2, 1879 Battle of Gingindlovu
  • June 5, 1879 Zungeni Mountain skirmish
  • July 4, 1879 Battle of Ulundi
• 1880 – 1881 First Boer War
  • December 16, 1880 – March 28, 1881 Siege of Pretoria
  • December 20, 1880 Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
  • December 27, 1880 – March 30, 1881 Siege of Rustenburg
  • January 11 – April 2, 1881 Siege of Marabastad
  • January 6 – March 30, 1881 Siege of Lydenburg
  • January 16, 1881 Battle of Elandsfontein
  • January 28, 1881 Battle of Laing's Nek
  • February 8, 1881 Battle of Schuinshoogte
  • February 12, 1881 Battle of Rooihuiskraal
  • February 27, 1881 Battle of Majuba Hill
• 1894 Malaboch War
• 1895 – 1896 Jameson Raid
• 1899 – 1902 Second Boer War
  • October 12 – 13, 1899 Battle of Kraaipan
  • October 13, 1899 – May 17, 1900 Siege of Mafeking
  • October 14, 1899 – February 15, 1900 Siege of Kimberley
  • October 20, 1899 Battle of Talana Hill
  • October 21, 1899 Battle of Elandslaagte
  • October 30, 1899 Battle of Ladysmith
  • November 2, 1899 – February 28, 1900 Siege of Ladysmith
  • November 3, 1899 First Battle of Colenso
  • November 15, 1899 Battle of Chieveley
  • November 23, 1899 Battle of Willow Grange
  • November 23, 1899 Battle of Belmont (1899)
  • November 25, 1899 Battle of Graspan
  • November 28, 1899 Battle of Modder River
  • December 10, 1899 Battle of Stormberg
  • December 11, 1899 Battle of Magersfontein
  • December 15, 1899 Second Battle of Colenso
  • December 15, 1899 – February 27, 1900 Relief of Ladysmith
  • January 23 – 24, 1900 Battle of Spion Kop
  • February 5 – 7, 1900 Battle of Vaal Krantz
  • February 14 – 27, 1900 Battle of the Tugela Heights
  • February 18 – 27, 1900 Battle of Paardeberg
    • February 18, 1900 Bloody Sunday (1900)
  • March 7, 1900 Battle of Poplar Grove
  • March 10, 1900 Battle of Driefontein
  • March 31, 1900 Battle of Sanna's Post
  • April 5, 1900 Battle of Boshof
  • May 3 – June 8, 1900 Advance on Pretoria
    • May 4 – 6, 1900 Battle of Veertien Strome
  • May 29 – 30, 1900 Battle of Faber's Put
  • June 11 – 12, 1900 Battle of Diamond Hill
  • July 16, 1900 Battle of Witpoort
  • August 4 – 16, 1900 Battle of Elands River (1900)
  • August 21 – 27, 1900 Battle of Bergendal
  • November 6, 1900 Battle of Bothaville
  • November 7, 1900 Battle of Leliefontein
  • November 19, 1900 Battle of Rhenosterkop
  • December 13, 1900 Battle of Nooitgedacht
  • December 29, 1900 Battle of Helvetia
  • January 22 – 25, 1901 Battle of Middelfontein
  • February 17, 1901 Battle of Hartbeesfontein
  • September 5, 1901 Battle of Groenkloof
  • September 17, 1901 Battle of Elands River (1901)
  • September 17, 1901 Battle of Blood River Poort
  • October 30, 1901 Battle of Bakenlaagte
  • December 25, 1901 Battle of Groenkop
  • March 7, 1902 Battle of Tweebosch
  • March 31, 1902 Battle of Hart's River
  • April 11, 1902 Battle of Rooiwal
• 1906 Bambatha Rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • September 15, 1914 – July 9, 1915 South West Africa campaign
      • 1914 – 1915 Maritz Rebellion
      • February 4, 1915 Battle of Kakamas
• 1921 – 1922 Rand Rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
• 1948 – 1994 Internal resistance to apartheid
  • 1950 Witzieshoek revolt
  • March 21, 1960 Sharpeville Massacre
  • June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising
  • May 20, 1983 Church street bombing
  • August 4, 1983 Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre
  • September 3, 1984 Vaal uprising
  • December 23, 1985 Amanzimtoti bombing
  • 1986 – 1987 Ciskei-Transkei conflict
  • June 14, 1986 Durban beach-front bombing
  • May 20, 1987 Johannesburg Magistrate's Court bombing
  • December 30, 1987 1987 Transkei coup d'état
  • November 15, 1988 Strijdom Square massacre
  • March 4, 1990 1990 Ciskei coup d'état
  • April 5, 1990 1990 Venda coup d'état
  • August 9, 1991 Battle of Ventersdorp
  • June 17, 1992 Boipatong massacre
  • September 7, 1992 Bisho massacre
  • June 25, 1993 Storming of the Kempton Park World Trade Centre
  • July 25, 1993 Saint James Church massacre
  • December 30, 1993 Heidelberg Tavern massacre
  • 1994 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis
  • March 28, 1994 Shell House massacre
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War

Zambia

• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
  • October 19 – 21, 1978 Operation Gatling
  • August 22, 1979 Operation Placid
  • August 23, 1979 Operation Motel
• 1966 – 1990 South African Border War
  • March 1979 Operation Saffraan
• July 1, 1990 1990 Zambian coup attempt
• October 28, 1997 1997 Zambian coup attempt

Zimbabwe

• 1890 Pioneer Column
• 1893 – 1894 First Matabele War
  • October 25, 1893 Battle of the Shangani
  • November 1, 1893 Battle of Bembezi
  • December 3 – 4, 1893 Shangani Patrol
• 1896 – 1897 Second Matabele War
• 1964 – 1979 Rhodesian Bush War
  • July 4, 1964 Oberholzer murder
  • April 28, 1966 Battle of Sinoia
  • May 16 – September 18, 1966 Operation Pagoda
  • September 13 – 25, 1966 Operation Yodel
  • August 1 – September 8, 1967 Operation Nickel
  • December 28, 1967 – May 31, 1968 Operation Cauldron
  • May 20 – July 13, 1968 Operation Flotilla
  • July 16 – 26, 1968 Operation Griffin
  • July 27 – August 12, 1968 Operation Excess
  • January 18 – March 23, 1970 Operation Birch
  • April 17, 1971 Operation Panga
  • December 21, 1972 Attack on Altena Farm
  • December 23, 1972 Attack on Whistlefield Farm
  • July 1973 Attack on St Alberts School
  • July 27, 1974 Operation Overload
  • November 15, 1976 Battle of Hill 31
  • August 6, 1977 Salisbury Woolworths bombing
  • August 20, 1977 Attack on Odzanu Junction Farm
  • May 9, 1978 Attack on the Montclair Hotel
  • June 23, 1978 Vumba massacre
  • September 3, 1978 Air Rhodesia Flight 825 shootdown
  • December 11, 1978 Salisbury fuel depot attack
  • February 12, 1979 Air Rhodesia Flight 827 shootdown
• 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
• 1851 First Dahomean-Abeokuta War
• 1864 Second Dahomean-Abeokuta War
• 1890 First Franco-Dahomean War
  • April 20, 1890 Battle of Atchoukpa
• 1892 – 1894 Second Franco-Dahomean War
• October 28, 1963 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état
• October 26, 1972 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état
• January 17, 1977 1977 Benin coup attempt
• 2011 – present War in the Sahel
  • 2012 – present Mali War
    • 2015 – present Islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso
      • 2018 – present Fulani-Mossi conflict
      • December 1 – 2, 2021 Porga attack
      • February 8, 2022 W National Park massacre
      • January 8, 2025 2025 Point Triple attack

Burkina Faso

• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • November 14, 1915 – May 1916 North African theatre of World War I
      • November 1915 – February 1917 Volta-Bani War
• January 3, 1966 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• February 8, 1974 1974 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• November 25, 1980 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• November 7, 1982 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• February 28, 1983 1983 Upper Voltan coup attempt
• August 4, 1983 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
• 1985 Agacher Strip War
• October 15, 1987 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• September 18, 1989 1989 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
    • 2012 – present Mali War
      • 2014 – 2022 Operation Barkhane
      • 2015 – present Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
        • October 9, 2015 Samorogouan attack
        • October 12, 2016 Intangom attack
        • December 16, 2016 Nassoumbou attack
        • November 9, 2017 Battle of Ariel
        • October 3 – 4, 2018 2018 Inata attack
        • December 27, 2018 Loroni ambush
        • 2018 – present Fulani-Mossi conflict
        • March 31 – April 2, 2019 April 2019 Arbinda clashes
        • May 9 – 10, 2019 Gorom-Gorom rescue operation
        • August 19, 2019 2019 Koutougou attack
        • November 1 – 17, 2019 Operation Bourgou IV
        • December 24, 2019 Arbinda attack
        • February 2021 – May 25, 2022 Siege of Madjoari
        • August 4, 2021 2021 Markoye Department attacks
        • August 8, 2021 Dounkoun ambush
        • August 18, 2021 Boukouma attack
        • November 12, 2021 2021 Inata attack
        • December 23, 2021 Titao ambush
        • January 16 – 23, 2022 Operation Laabingol
        • February 7 – 8, 2022 Ouahigouya ambush
        • February 16, 2022 – present Siege of Djibo
        • March 20, 2022 2022 Natiaboani ambush
        • April 8, 2022 April 2022 Namissiguima attack
        • May 21, 2022 Bourzanga attack
        • August 4, 2022 August 2022 Bam ambush
        • October 29, 2022 Kikideni ambush
        • December 7, 2022 2022 Boala attack
        • January 28, 2023 Battle of Falagountou
        • February 17, 2023 Tin-Ediar attack
        • February 20, 2023 Battle of Tin-Akoff
        • March 21, 2023 2023 Zorkoum attack
        • April 27, 2023 Battle of Ougarou
        • June 26, 2023 2023 Namsiguia ambush
        • June 26, 2023 Noaka attack
        • September 4, 2023 Battle of Koumbri
        • March 21, 2024 Tawori attack
        • June 11, 2024 Mansila attack
        • August 8, 2024 Nassougou attack
        • March 28, 2025 March 2025 Diapaga attack
    • 2019 – present JNIM-ISGS war
• September 16 – 23, 2015 2015 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• October 8, 2016 2016 Burkina Faso coup attempt
• January 23 – 24, 2022 January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• September 30, 2022 September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
• September 26, 2023 2023 Burkina Faso coup attempt

Côte d'Ivoire

• 1819 – 1861 African Slave Trade Patrol
  • 1842 Mary Carver Affair
  • 1842 Ivory Coast expedition
• 1883 – 1898 Mandingo Wars
• 1999 – 2003 Second Liberian Civil War
• 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
• 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • March 13, 2016 Grand-Bassam shootings
• June 12, 2012 2012 Ivorian coup attempt
• 2017 2017 Ivory Coast mutinies

Gambia

• 1830 – 1887 Soninke-Marabout Wars
  • 1850 – 1856 Soninke-Marabout War (Kombo)
• 1831 – 1832 Barra War
• July 30 – August 4, 1981 1981 Gambian coup attempt
• July 22, 1994 1994 Gambian coup d'état
• December 30, 2014 2014 Gambian coup attempt
• December 6, 2016 – January 21, 2017 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis
  • 2017 – present ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia
• December 20, 2022 2022 Gambian coup attempt

Ghana

Main article: List of conflicts in Ghana

• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
  • October 25, 1625 Battle of Elmina (1625)
  • August 24 – 29, 1637 Battle of Elmina (1637)
• 1652 – 1784 Anglo-Dutch Wars
  • 1661 – 1665 Dano-Dutch colonial conflict on the Gold Coast
  • October 1664 – February 1665 De Ruyter's expedition to West Africa
  • 1780 – 1784 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
    • January – November 1781 Shirley's Gold Coast expedition
• 1678 Assault on Osu
• 1694 – 1700 Komenda Wars
• 1701 Battle of Feyiase
• 1784 Sagbadre War
• 1811 Ga–Fante War
• 1814 – 1816 Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War
• 1823 – 1900 Anglo-Ashanti wars
  • 1826 Katamanso War
  • 1900 War of the Golden Stool
• 1837 – 1839 Dutch–Ahanta War
• 1869 – 1870 Dutch Gold Coast expedition of 1869–1870
• 1892 1892 Sack of Salaga
• 1896 Battle of Adibo
• 1897 Battle of Kanjaga
• 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

• 1963 – 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
  • November 22, 1970 Operation Green Sea
• April 3, 1984 1984 Guinean coup d'état
• February 2 – 3, 1996 1996 Guinean coup attempt
• 1999 – 2003 Second Liberian Civil War
  • 2000 – 2001 RFDG Insurgency
• 2008 2008 Guinean military unrest
• 2013 2013 Guinea clashes
• September 5, 2021 2021 Guinean coup d'état

Guinea-Bissau

• August 3, 1959 Pidjiguiti massacre
• 1961 – 1974 Portuguese Colonial War
  • 1963 – 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
    • January 15, 1963 – March 24, 1964 Operation Trident (1963)
  • April 1966 Operation Griffin (Portugal)
  • November 16 – 19, 1969 Operation Jove
  • May 19, 1973 Operation Royal Amethyst
• November 14, 1980 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 1998 – 1999 Guinea-Bissau Civil War
  • June 7, 1998 1998 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• September 14, 2003 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• December 26, 2011 2011 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• April 12, 2012 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• February 1, 2022 2022 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
• November 30 – December 1, 2023 2023 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt

Liberia

• 1822 Dei-British/Settler “Water Battle” ^[2]
• 1835 Bassa-Settler War ^[2]
• 1838 Kru-Settler “Fishmen” Conflict ^[2]
• 1839–1840 Vai-Settler Battles ^[2]
• 1851–1852 Bassa-Government War ^[2]
• 1855 Kru-Government War ^[2]
• 1856–1857 Grebo-Maryland War
• October 1871 1871 Liberian coup d'état
• 1875 – 1876 Liberian–Grebo War
• 1893 Grebo-Government War ^[2]
• 1909-10 Kru revolts ^[2]
• 1910 Grebo revolt ^[2]
• 1912 Kru revolt ^[2]
• 1915 Kru Confederacy war ^{[2] [3]}
• 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
  • July 29, 1990 Monrovia Church massacre
• 1998 1998 Monrovia clashes
• 1999 – 2003 Second Liberian Civil War
  • July 18, 2002 Maher Massacre
  • July 18 – August 14, 2003 Siege of Monrovia

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
• 1599 Battle of Jenné
• c. 1460s Songhai conquered Mema
• 1810 – 1818 Mopti Jihad
• 1848 – 1864 Initial conquests of El Hadj Umar Tall Jihad
• 1857 Siege of Medina Fort
• 1861 Battle of Segou
• 1862 Battle of Cayawal
• 1883 – 1886 Mandingo Wars
• 1891 First Battle of Jenné
• 1893 Second Battle of Jenné
• 1962 – 1964 Tuareg rebellion (1962–64)
• 1985 Agacher Strip War
• 1990 – 1995 Tuareg rebellion (1990–95)
• 2002 – present Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – present Operation Juniper Shield
  • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
    • 2012 – present Mali War
      • 2012 2012 Tuareg rebellion
        • January 17, 2012 First Battle of Ménaka
        • January 17 — 25, 2012 Battle of Aguelhok (2012)
        • January 18 — March 11, 2012 Battle of Tessalit
        • January 20, 2012 Battle of In Emsal
        • January 26, 2012 Fall of Andéramboukane
        • January 31, 2012 Battle of Niafunké
        • February 7 — 8, 2012 Battle of Tinzaouaten (2012)
        • February 11, 2012 Tinsalane ambush
        • February 24, 2012 Battle of Goumakoura
        • February 24, 2012 Battle of Tessit
        • March 15, 2012 Battle of Sudere
        • March 25, 2012 Tin-Hama ambush
        • March 26 – 30, 2012 Battle of Kidal (2012)
      • March 21 — April 8, 2012 2012 Malian coup d'état
      • April 30 – May 1, 2012 2012 Malian counter-coup attempt
      • June 13 — 29, 2012 Fall of Timbuktu
      • June 26 — 28, 2012 Battle of Gao
      • November 16, 2012 Battle of In-Delimane (2012)
      • November 16, 2012 Tagarangabotte ambush
      • November 19 — 20, 2012 Second Battle of Ménaka
      • January 11, 2013 — July 15, 2014 Operation Serval
      • January 18 – April 2013 Chadian intervention in northern Mali
      • January 10 – 18, 2013 Battle of Konna
      • January 13, 2013 Bombardment of Gao
      • January 14 – 21, 2013 Battle of Diabaly
      • January 25 – 27, 2013 Second Battle of Gao
      • February 8, 2013 Battle of Djicoroni
      • February 9 – 11, 2013 Third Battle of Gao
      • February 18 – March 31, 2013 Battle of Ifoghas
      • February 19 – March 25, 2013 Operation Panther (2013)
      • February 20 – 22, 2013 Fourth Battle of Gao
      • February 22 — 23, 2013 Battle of Khalil
      • February 24, 2013 Battle of Timetrine
      • February 27 – March 1, 2013 Battle of Imenas
      • March 6, 2013 Battle of Tin Keraten
      • March 12, 2013 Battle of Tigharghar
      • March 12 – 15, 2013 Battle of Djebok
      • March 20 – 21, 2013 Battle of Timbuktu
      • March 23 – 24, 2013 Fifth Battle of Gao
      • March 29 — 30, 2013 Battle of In Arab
      • March 30 – April 1, 2013 Second Battle of Timbuktu
      • April 21, 2013 Battle of Ber (2013)
      • May 4, 2013 Battle of Hamakouladji
      • May 17 – 18, 2013 Battle of Anefis (May 2013)
      • June 5, 2013 Battle of Anefis (June 2013)
      • September 11, 2013 Fooïta skirmish
      • October 1, 2013 Douaya clashes
      • October 23, 2013 2013 Tessalit attack
      • November 8, 2013 Amazragane skirmish
      • December 10, 2013 Battle of Araouane (2013)
      • January 22 – 23, 2014 Battle of Kondaoui
      • March 4 – 5, 2014 Bombardment of Ametettai
      • April 16 – 17, 2014 Battle of Dayet en Maharat
      • April 29 – 30, 2014 Battles of Inabohane and Ebahlal
      • May 16 – 21, 2014 Second Battle of Kidal
      • July 11, 2014 Battle of Anéfis (2014)
      • July 19 – 22, 2014 Battle of Tabankort (2014)
      • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
      • October 3, 2014 2014 Indelimane ambush
      • October 16, 2014 N'Tillit clashes
      • October 28 – November 6, 2014 Ametettai offensive
      • December 10 – 11, 2014 2014 Tabankort raid
      • January 5, 2025 2015 Nampala raid
      • January 16, 2015 Ténenkou raid
      • January 16 – 20, 2015 Battle of Tabankort (2015)
      • January 28 – February 4, 2015 Battle of Tabrichat
      • April 29, 2015 Battle of Léré (2015)
      • May 11, 2015 Tin Telout ambush
      • June 27, 2015 Battle of Nara (2015)
      • July 2, 2015 Takoumbaout ambush
      • July 16, 2015 Battle of the Sama Forest
      • August 3, 2015 2015 Gourma-Rharous attack
      • August 7, 2015 Sévaré hotel attack
      • August 15 – 29, 2015 2015 Anefis dispute
      • October 28, 2015 Tiébanda skirmish
      • December 24 – 25, 2015 Battle of Talahandak (2015)
      • January 15, 2016 Wanna ambush
      • May 18, 2016 2016 Aguelhok ambush
      • May 29, 2016 Sévaré ambush
      • July 19, 2016 2016 Nampala attack
      • July 21 – 22, 2016 Battle of Kidal (2016)
      • July 30, 2016 Touzik clashes
      • August 9 – 10, 2016 Mali War
      • October 13, 2016 Goumakoura ambush
      • November 20, 2016 Kazay-Kazay ambush
      • March 5, 2017 2017 Boulikessi attack
      • April 18, 2017 Battle of Gourma-Rharous (2017)
      • April 29 – 30, 2017 Battle of the Foulsaré Forest
      • May 2, 2017 2017 Dogofry ambush
      • May 30 – June 1, 2017 Battle of the Serma Forest (2017)
      • June 17, 2017 Bintagoungou attack
      • July 9, 2017 Inkadogotane ambush
      • July 10, 2017 Djebok ambush
      • July 26, 2017 Battle of Takellote
      • August 14, 2017 2017 Timbuktu attack
      • October 23 – 24, 2017 Tin Biden raid
      • November 24, 2017 2017 Indelimane ambush
      • January 12 – March 6, 2018 Battle of In-Delimane (2018)
      • January 25, 2018 Youwarou attack
      • January 27, 2018 Soumpi attack
      • February 14, 2018 Inaghalawass skirmish
      • March 29 – April 6, 2018 Araouane clashes
      • April 1, 2018 Battle of Akabar
      • April 14, 2018 2018 Timbuktu attack
      • May 26, 2018 2018 Talataye attack
      • June 3 – 5, 2018 Battle of Tabarde
      • June 9, 2018 2018 Boni attack
      • June 22, 2018 Inabelbel clashes
      • July 22, 2018 Soumouni skirmish
      • July 31, 2018 2018 Dogofry ambush
      • October 16 – 17, 2018 Battle of Ndaki
      • October 27, 2018 Battle of Ber (2018)
      • November 22 – 23, 2018 Battle of Ber (2018)
      • December 19, 2018 Battle of Abanguilou
      • January 4 – 9, 2019 Battle of the Serma Forest (2019)
      • January 20, 2019 2019 Aguelhok attack
      • February 21, 2019 Battle of Elakla
      • February 23, 2019 Dialloubé raid
      • March 17, 2019 Raid on Dioura (2019)
      • March 25 – April 11, 2019 Operation Tiésaba-Bourgou
      • April 21, 2019 Guiré attack
      • 2019 – present JNIM-ISGS war
      • July 17, 2019 Fafa skirmish
      • September 29 – October 1, 2019 Battle of Boulikessi (2019)
      • November 1, 2019 2019 Indelimane attack
      • November 18, 2019 Battle of Tabankort (2019)
      • December 20 – 21, 2019 Battle of the Wagadou Forest (2019)
      • January 22, 2020 Dioungani ambush
      • January 26, 2020 Sokolo attack
      • March 19, 2020 2020 Tarkint attack
      • April 6, 2020 Battle of Bamba
      • June 3, 2020 Battle of Talahandak (2020)
      • June 14, 2020 Bouka Weré ambush
      • August 18, 2020 2020 Malian coup d'état
      • October 6 – 22, 2020 Siege of Farabougou
      • October 13, 2020 Sokoura attack
      • October 30 – 31, 2020 Battle of Boulikessi (2020)
      • January 24, 2021 Boulikessi and Mondoro attacks
      • February 3, 2021 2021 Boni attack
      • March 15 – 16, 2021 Battle of Tessit (2021)
      • April 2, 2021 2021 Aguelhok attack
      • May 24, 2021 2021 Malian coup d'état
      • August 19 – 21, 2021 Killing of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi
      • August 19, 2021 Nokara ambush
      • October 6, 2021 Bodio ambush
      • February 18 – 19, 2022 Archam clashes
      • March 4, 2022 2022 Mondoro attack
      • March 8, 2022 – May 2023 Ménaka offensive
        • June 4 – 5, 2022 Battle of Andéramboukane (2022)
        • August 7, 2022 2022 Tessit attack
        • September 6 – 7, 2022 Battle of Talataye
        • December 3 – 10, 2022 December 2022 Ménaka region clashes
      • March 27 – 31, 2022 Moura massacre
      • April 21, 2022 April 2022 Mopti region attacks
      • January 10, 2023 Diafarabé and Koumara attacks
      • August 8, 2023 – present Siege of Timbuktu
      • August 11 – 12, 2023 Battle of Ber (2023)
      • September 7, 2023 Tombouctou and Bamba attacks
      • September 12, 2023 Battle of Bourem
      • September 17, 2023 Battle of Léré (2023)
      • September 28, 2023 Raid on Dioura (2023)
      • October 1, 2023 2023 Bamba attack
      • October 2 – December 20, 2023 Kidal offensive
        • November 10 – 14, 2023 Battle of Kidal (2023)
      • November 24, 2023 Niafunké attack
      • December 3, 2023 Labbezanga attack
      • December 12, 2023 2023 Farabougou attack
      • February 28, 2024 Kwala attack
      • April 5, 2024 Battle of the Wagadou Forest (2024)
      • May 26, 2024 Mourdiah attack
      • July 25 – 27, 2024 Battle of Tinzaouaten (2024)
      • September 17, 2024 2024 Bamako attacks
      • February 7, 2025 Kobé attack
      • May 23, 2025 2025 Dioura attack
      • June 1, 2025 Battle of Boulikessi (2025)
      • June 2, 2025 2025 Timbuktu attack
      • June 4, 2025 2025 Tessit attack
      • June 13, 2025 Battle of Anoumalane
• 2006 2006 Tuareg rebellion
  • May 23, 2006 2006 Kidal and Ménaka mutinies
• 2007 – 2009 Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009)
  • May 21, 2008 Battle of Abeïbara
  • December 20, 2008 2008 Nampala attack
  • January 22, 2009 Toulousimine ambush

Mauritania

Main article: List of conflicts in Mauritania

• 1056 Battle of Tabfarilla
• 1970 – present Western Sahara conflict
  • 1975 – 1991 Western Sahara War
    • January 19 – 24, 1976 Battle of Ain Ben Tili (January 1976)
    • June 8, 1976 Nouakchott raid (1976)
    • December 1977 – July 1978 Opération Lamantin
• July 10, 1978 1978 Mauritanian coup d'état
• April 6, 1979 1979 Mauritanian coup d'état
• January 4, 1980 1980 Mauritanian coup d'état
• March 16, 1981 1981 Mauritanian coup attempt
• December 12, 1984 1984 Mauritanian coup d'état
• 1989 – 1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War
• 2002 – present Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • June 4, 2005 Lemgheity attack
  • 2007 – present Operation Juniper Shield
  • September 14 – 15, 2008 Tourine ambush
  • 2011 – present War in the Sahel
    • July 5, 2011 Battle of Bassikounou
    • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
• June 8 – 9, 2003 2003 Mauritanian coup attempt
• August 3, 2005 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état
• August 6, 2008 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état

Niger

• 1516 – 1517 Songhai Civil War
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1916 – 1917 Kaocen Revolt
• April 15, 1974 1974 Nigerien coup d'état
• 1990 – 1995 Tuareg rebellion (1990–95)
• January 27, 1996 1996 Nigerien coup d'état
• April 9, 1999 1999 Nigerien coup d'état
• 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
  • 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
    • 2007 – 2009 Tuareg rebellion (2007–09)
      • June 22, 2007 2007 Tezerzaït attack
  • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
    • January 23 – December 24, 2015 2015 West African offensive
    • December 6, 2017 December 2017 Diffa Region clash
    • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
    • March 31 – April 9, 2020 Operation Boma's Wrath
    • May 29, 2021 2021 Diffa raid
    • August 24, 2021 Battle of Baroua
  • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
    • • 2012 – present Mali War
        • August 1, 2014 — November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
        • 2015 – present Jihadist insurgency in Niger
          • December 31, 2009 – January 1, 2010 Battle of Tlemsess
          • March 8, 2010 2010 Tilwa attack
          • January 8, 2011 2011 Tabankort raid
          • June 12, 2011 Battle of Ouraren (2011)
          • September 15, 2011 Battle of Adrar Bouss
          • October 9 – 10, 2014 Tchibarakaten ambush
          • October 30, 2014 Mangaïzé attack
          • October 6, 2016 Tazalit attack
          • November 8, 2016 2016 Bani Bangou attack
          • February 22, 2017 2017 Tilwa attack
          • March 6, 2017 Wanzarbé attack
          • May 31 – June 1, 2017 Battle of Abala
          • July 5, 2017 Midal attack
          • October 4, 2017 Tongo Tongo ambush
          • October 21, 2017 2017 Ayorou attack
          • December 27 – 28, 2018 Second Battle of Tongo-Tongo
          • May 14, 2019 Baley Beri ambush
          • July 1, 2019 July 2019 Inates attack
          • December 10, 2019 Battle of Inates
          • December 25, 2019 Sanam ambush
          • January 9, 2020 Battle of Chinagodrar
          • March 12, 2020 2020 Ayorou attack
          • December 21, 2020 Battle of Taroun (2020)
          • May 1, 2021 Intoussan ambush
          • July 31, 2021 Torodi ambush
          • February 10, 2023 Intagamey attack
          • August 25, 2023 2023 Koutougou attack
          • October 2, 2023 Tabatol attack
          • March 21, 2024 Teguey attack
          • December 10, 2024 Chetoumane attack
      • 2015 – present Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
        • • 2018 – present Fulani-Mossi conflict
    • 2019 – present JNIM-ISGS war
• February 18, 2010 2010 Nigerien coup d'état
• July 12 – 13, 2011 2011 Nigerien coup attempt
• March 31, 2021 2021 Nigerien coup attempt
• July 26 – 28, 2023 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
• 2023 – 2024 Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)

Nigeria

• 1578 – 1608 Oyo-Benin War
• 1789 – 1893 Yoruba Wars
  • 1800s Mugbamugba War
  • 1825 Battle of Ogele
  • 1830s Battle of Pamo
  • 1835 Battle of Ilorin
  • 1835 – 1849 Ife-Modakeke conflict
  • 1840 Battle of Òsogbo
  • 1877 – 1893 Kiriji War
    • November 1, 1878 Jalumi War
• 1804 – 1808 Fulani War
• 1835 – 1836 Fula jihads
• 1873 Rafin Jaki Jihad
• 1897 Benin Expedition of 1897
• January 15 – 16, 1966 1966 Nigerian coup d'état
• July 28 – August 1, 1966 1966 Nigerian counter-coup
• 1967 – 1970 Nigerian Civil War
  • July 2 – 12, 1967 Operation UNICORD
  • August 9 – September 20, 1967 Midwest Invasion of 1967
  • September 12, – October 4, 1967 Fall of Enugu
  • October 4 – 12, 1967 First Invasion of Onitsha
  • October 5 – 7, 1967 Asaba massacre
  • October 17 – 19, 1967 Operation Tiger Claw
  • January 2 - March 20, 1968 Second Invasion of Onitsha
  • March 31, 1968 Abagana Ambush
  • March 8 – May 24, 1968 Invasion of Port Harcourt
  • September 2 – October 15, 1968 Operation OAU
  • November 15 – 29, 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
  • 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
• December 31, 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
      • April 18, 2020 April 2020 Katsina attacks
      • May 26, 2020 Sabon Birni massacres
      • December 11, 2020 Kankara kidnapping
      • December 2020 Mahuta kidnapping
      • February 17, 2021 Kagara kidnapping
      • February 26, 2021 Zamfara kidnapping
      • February 24 – 28, 2021 February 2021 Kaduna and Katsina attacks
      • March 11, 2021 Afaka kidnapping
      • April 20, 2021 Greenfield University kidnapping
      • May 2021 May 2021 Niger State kidnapping
      • June 3, 2021 2021 Kebbi massacre
      • June 11 – 12, 2021 Zurmi massacre
      • June 24, 2021 Kebbi kidnapping
      • July 5, 2021 Chikun kidnapping
      • January 4 – 6, 2022 2022 Zamfara massacres
      • January 14, 2022 Dankade massacre
      • March 8, 2022 March 2022 Kebbi massacres
      • March 20, 2022 Ganar Kiyawa massacre
      • March 28, 2022 Abuja–Kaduna train attack
      • March 28 – 30, 2022 Bakura and Talata Mafara attacks
      • April 5, 2022 Birnin Gwari military base attack
      • April 10, 2022 2022 Plateau State massacres
      • June 5, 2022 2022 Kajuru killings
      • June 29, 2022 Shiroro ambush
      • January 7, 2023 Edo train station kidnapping
      • March 11, 2023 Ungwan Wakili massacre
      • December 3, 2023 Tudun Biri drone strike
      • December 24, 2023 2023 Plateau State massacres
      • March 7, 2024 Kuriga kidnapping
      • July 1, 2025 2025 Kwallajiya attack
• November 20, 1999 Odi massacre
• October 20 – 24, 2001 Zaki Biam massacre
• 2003 – present Conflict in the Niger Delta
  • 2016 – present 2016 Niger Delta conflict
  • 2021 – present Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
    • April 5, 2021 Owerri prison break
    • May 15 – 22, 2022 May 2022 Anambra State killings
    • May 16, 2023 2023 Anambra ambush
    • May 30, 2024 2024 Aba killings
• 2007 – ongoing Operation Juniper Shield
  • 2009 – present Boko Haram insurgency
    • July 26 – 29, 2009 2009 Boko Haram uprising
    • December 22 – 23, 2011 December 2011 Nigeria clashes
    • March 8, 2012 Sokoto hostage rescue attempt
    • August 31, 2013 Monguno ambush
    • October 6, 2013 Battle of Damboa
    • May 13 – 14, 2014 Chibok ambush
    • September 12, 2014 Battle of Konduga (2014)
    • March 2, 2015 Battle of Konduga (2015)
    • March 18, 2015 Battle of Damasak
    • January 17, 2017 Rann bombing
    • January 23 – December 24, 2015 2015 West African offensive
    • November 2018 – February 2020 Chad Basin campaign (2018–2020)
    • March 31 – April 9, 2020 Operation Boma's Wrath
    • September 2, 2020 Garin Giwa ambush
    • April 23, 2021 Battle of Geidam
    • May 14 – 19, 2021 Battle of Sambisa Forest (2021)
    • September 26, 2021 Kwatar Daban Masara airstrike
    • December 30, 2022 – January 7, 2023 Battles of Toumbun Allura Kurnawa and Toumbun Gini
  • 2011 – present Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
• March 8, 2014 2014 Enugu Government House attack
• June 15, 2014 2014 Enugu State Broadcasting Service attack
• December 12 – 14, 2015 2015 Zaria massacre
• April 13, 2024 Oyo State coup attempt

Senegal

• 1549 Battle of Danki
• 1619 Ambush at Portudal
• 1659 – late 1800s French conquest of Senegal
  • 1825 Franco-Trarzan War of 1825
  • May 18, 1859 Battle of Logandème
• 1756 – 1763 Seven Years' War
  • April – May 1758 British capture of Senegal
  • December 1758 Capture of Gorée
• 1644 – 1677 Char Bouba war
• 1830 – 1887 Soninke-Marabout Wars
  • July 18, 1867 Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune
• 1860 – 1886 Franco-Cayor Wars
• 1880 – 1899 Franco-Wolof Wars
• 1886 – 1887 Uprising of Mahmadu Lamine
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • September 23 – 25, 1940 Battle of Dakar
  • December 1, 1944 Thiaroye massacre
• 1982 – present Casamance conflict
• 1989 – 1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War
• 2007 – present Operation Juniper Shield

Sierra Leone

• February 7, 1813 Action of 7 February 1813
• 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 – May 1992 Operation Silver Anvil
  • April 29, 1992 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état
  • May 1997 Operation Noble Obelisk
  • May 25, 1997 – February 6, 1998 Siege of Freetown
  • May 17, 2000 Lungi Lol confrontation
  • July 13 – 16, 2000 Operation Khukri
  • September 10, 2000 Operation Barras
• November 26 – 28, 2023 2023 Sierra Leone coup attempt

Togo

• 1764 Battle of Atakpamé
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • August 3, 1914 – November 25, 1918 African theatre of World War I
    • August 6 – 26, 1914 Togoland campaign
      • August 15, 1914 Affair of Agbeluvoe
      • August 22, 1914 Affair of Khra
• 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
• 1806–1807 Ashanti–Fante War
  • 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
• 1823–1900 Anglo-Ashanti wars
• 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 ^[4]
• 1902–1904 Kuanhama Rebellion ^[5]
• 1901–1902 Anglo-Aro War
• 1901–1903 Mapondera Rebellion
• 1902–1904 Bailundo revolt of 1902
• 1903–1904 British conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate ^[6]
• 1904–1908 Herero Wars
• 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
• 1905–1907 Maji Maji Rebellion
• 1906 Bambatha Rebellion
• 1906 Sokoto Uprising of 1906 ^[7]
• 1907–1910 Dembos War of 1907-1910 ^[7]
• 1908 Battle of Marrakech
• 1909 Second Melillan campaign
• 1909–1911 Ouaddai War
• 1910–1912 Portuguese conquest of the Kasanje Kingdom ^[8]
• 1911–1912 French conquest of Morocco
• 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912 Sirte revolt ^[9]
• 1914 Kolongongo War ^[10]
• 1914–1917 Kongo revolt ^{[11] [12]}
• 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 ^[13]
• 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–present 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

References

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Further reading

• 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).