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This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa. It encompasses pre-colonial wars, colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major ...
B. R. Ambedkar Uri Avnery. Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964–2011) – Kenyan peace activist, government consultant; David Adams (born 1939) – American author and peace activist, task force chair of the United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace, coordinator of the Culture of Peace News Network [1]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Minor wars (1,000–9,999) Conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world ...
South African Border War; South African Wars (1879–1915) U. Uganda–Tanzania War; Ugandan Bush War; W. Western Sahara War; X. Xhosa Wars
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
Tunisian War of Independence [6] Tunisia: 2,500 1955–1972 First Sudanese Civil War Sudan: 500,000 1954–1962 Algerian War of Independence [7] Algeria: 1,000,000–1,500,000 1957–1958 Ifni War Morocco, Spanish West Africa: 8,400 1958–1959 1958 Rif riots Morocco ~4000 1961 Bizerte crisis Tunisia: 654 1961–1964 First Tuareg rebellion Mali ...
Subsequent conflicts in the Congo were the First Congo War (1996–1997) to oust President Mobutu, Second Congo War (1998–2003) between various factions with the intervention of many other African countries, making this an African regional civil war, and the ongoing Ituri Conflict. Bodyguard of the Shehu of Bornu, c. 1820.
An askari or ascari (from Somali, Swahili, and Arabic عسكري, ʿaskarī, meaning 'soldier' or 'military', also 'police' in Somali) was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast Africa and Central Africa.