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List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
German South West Africa (now Namibia) 1904 1908 34,000 [270] 110,000 [271] [272] The Genocide in German South West Africa was the campaign to exterminate the Herero and Nama people that the German Empire undertook in German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia). It is considered one of the first genocides of the 20th century.
In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [ 1 ] and later in Nubia 's Kush, the Horn of Africa 's Dʿmt, and Ifrikiya 's Carthage. [ 2 ] Between around 3000 BC and 1000 AD, the Bantu expansion swept from north-western Central Africa (modern day Cameroon) across much of sub-Saharan Africa, laying the foundations for states ...
5 June 2009 Battle of Wabho. 18 June 2009 2009 Beledweyne bombing. 1–7 October 2009 Battle of Kismayo (2009) 10–14 January 2010 Battle of Beledweyne (2010) May–July 2010 Ayn clashes. 1 May 2010 Mogadishu bombings. 20 July 2010 2010 Kenya–Al-Shabaab border clash. 8 August – 17 October 2010 Galgala campaign.
2019–2022 locust infestation. Between June 2019 and February 2022, a major outbreak of desert locusts began developing, threatening food supplies in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. The outbreak was the worst to hit Kenya in 70 years, and the worst in 25 years for Ethiopia, Somalia, and India. [3][4] The locust ...
Historical events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (9 C) Categories: Historical events by continent. History of Africa.
Mandela during his 1994 visit to the US Recorded on 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [ 1 ]Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to ...
Turkana, as Africa's largest saline lake, is an important area for the study of fauna and flora. It is a breeding ground for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, and several venomous snakes. [113] The site was placed the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2018, primarily due to the potential impact of Ethiopia's Gilgel Gibe III Dam. [114] Lamu ...