List of modern conflicts in North Africa

{{Short description|Incidents since 1918 with more than 100 casualties}}

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Note:

"Modern" is defined as post-WWI period, from 1918 until today.
"North Africa" has a definition approximately that of the Arab term Maghreb, in addition to Egypt
"Conflict" is defined as a separate 100+ casualty incident.
In all cases conflicts are listed by total deaths, including subconflicts (specified below).

List of conflicts

class="wikitable sortable"
Date ! Conflict ! Location ! Casualties
align=center \| 1919 \| Egyptian Revolution of 1919 \| {{flagdeco\|Egypt\|1882}} Egypt \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|800}} 800{{cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/07/25/archives/800-natives-dead-in-egypts-rising-1600-wounded-harmsworth-tells-the.html \|title=800 NATIVES DEAD IN EGYPT'S RISING - 1,600 WOUNDED - Harmsworth Tells the Commons of Casualties in the Recent Outbreak. DEATH SENTENCES FOR 39 More Than 2,000 Imprisoned- British, Army Sustained Loss of 143. ALLENBY'S CONTROL FIRM Disorders Ended in April-Mahomed Said Pasha Co-operating as Premier. - Front Page - NYTimes.com \|publisher=Select.nytimes.com \|date=2012-06-10 \|access-date=2013-10-14}}–3,000{{cite book\|last=Schulze\|first=Reinhard\|title=A Modern History of the Islamic World\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kldfdxw0gRwC\|date=March 2002\|publisher=NYU Press\|isbn=978-0-8147-9819-5}}
align=center \| 1920–1926 \| Rif War[http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/rif-wars/timeline_third.htm Timeline for the Third Rif War (1920–25)] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220013128/http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/rif-wars/timeline_third.htm \|date=20 December 2011 }} Steven Thomas \| {{flag\|Republic of the Rif}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|40000}} 40,000–46,400
align=center \| 1939–1945 \| Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II {{ref\|a\|[a]}}{{Verify source\|date=October 2011}} \| {{flagdeco\|France}} Algeria, {{flagcountry\|Kingdom of Egypt}}, {{flagdeco\|Italy\|1861}} Libya, {{flagdeco\|Morocco}} Morocco, {{flagdeco\|Tunisia}} Tunisia \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|1000000}} 1,000,000
align=center \| 1945 \| 1945 Tripoli pogrom \| British Tripolitania \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|140}} 140
align=center \| 1946 \| Egyptian Student Riots {{cite web\|url=http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=19417 \|title=Egypt: Police Crack Down on Student Demonstration \|publisher=Ikhwanweb \|access-date=2013-10-14}}{{Verify source\|date=February 2011}}Ahmed Abdalla, The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt 1923–1973. 2008: pp. 64–77 (1946: The Climax) \| {{flagcountry\|Kingdom of Egypt}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|100}} 100–300
align=center \| 1952 \| Egyptian Revolution of 1952 \| {{flagdeco\|Egypt\|1922}} {{flagdeco\|Egypt\|1952}} Egypt \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|1,000}} 1,000
align=center \| 1952–1954 \| Tunisian War of Independence{{Cite web\|url=http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/middle-eastnorth-africapersian-gulf-region/french-tunisia-1881-1956/\|title=French Tunisia (1881–1956)\|website=University of Central Arkansas}} \| {{flag\|Tunisia}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|2500}} 2,500
align=center \| 1955–1972 \| First Sudanese Civil War \| {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|500000}} 500,000
align=center \| 1954–1962 \| Algerian War of Independence {{Cite web\|url=https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/algeria-war-of-independence/\|title=Algeria: War of independence\|last=World Peace Foundation\|date=August 2015\|website=Tufts University}} \| {{flag\|Algeria}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|179000}} 1,000,000–1,500,000
align=center \| 1957–1958 \| Ifni War \| {{flag\|Morocco}}, {{Flagdeco\|Spain\|1945}} Spanish West Africa \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|8400}} 8,400
align=center \| 1958–1959 \| 1958 Rif riots \| {{flag\|Morocco}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|4000}} ~4000
align=center \| 1961 \| Bizerte crisis \| {{flag\|Tunisia}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|654}} 654
align=center \| 1961–1964 \| First Tuareg rebellion \| {{flag\|Mali}}, {{flag\|Niger}} \| align=right \|
align=center \| 1963–1964 \| Sand War \| {{flag\|Morocco}}, {{flag\|Algeria}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|339}} 339
align=center \| 1963–1965 \| Socialist Forces Front Kabyle rebellion \| {{flag\|Algeria}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|400}} 400{{Cite book\|title=Émeutes et Mouvements sociaux au Maghreb\|last=Le Saout\|first=Didier\|last2=Rollinde\|first2=Marguerite\|publisher=Karthala\|year=1999\|isbn=978-2-865-37998-9\|pages=46}}
align=center \| 1965–1979 \| Civil war in Chad \| {{flag\|Chad}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|500}} 500+
align=center \| 1970–present \| Western Sahara conflict{{ref\|b\|[b]}} \| {{flag\|Mauritania}}, {{flag\|Morocco}}, {{flag\|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|14000}} 14,000–21,000
align=center \| 1977 \| Libyan–Egyptian War{{Cite book\| publisher = Bison Books\| isbn = 978-0-8032-8783-9\| page = 365\| last = Pollack\| first = Kenneth M.\| title = Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991\| date = 2016-01-21}} \| {{flag\|Egypt\|1977}}, {{flag\|Libya\|1977}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|500}} 500
align=center \| 1978–1987 \| Chadian–Libyan conflict \| {{flag\|Libya\|1977}}, {{flag\|Chad}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|8500}} 8,500
align=center \| 1979–1982 \| Civil conflict in Chad{{Cite journal\|title=Conflict and the women of Chad.\|journal=Focus on Gender\|volume=1\|issue=2\|pages=10–2\|date=June 1993\|pmid = 12345211\|last1 = Sy\|first1 = A. D.\|doi=10.1080/09682869308519962}}{{Cite web\|url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/article/viewFile/14931/16000\|title=The Limits of Peace-Keeping by a Regional Organization: The OAU Peace-Keeping Force in Chad\|last=Sesay\|first=Amadu\|website=Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals}} \| {{flag\|Chad}} \| align=right \|
align=center \| 1982–2002 \| Chadian Civil War {{Citation needed\|date=January 2012}} \| {{flag\|Chad}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|37500}} 37,500
align=center \| 1983–2005 \| Second Sudanese Civil War{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14019202\|title=South Sudan profile – Timeline\|date=August 2018\|website=BBC}}{{Cite web\|url=https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/sudan-2nd-civil-war-darfur/\|title=Sudan: 1985 – 2005\|last=World Peace Foundation\|date=August 2015\|website=Tufts University}} \| {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|600000}} 600,000–2,500,000
align=center \| 1983–1984 \| Tunisian bread riots{{Cite web\|url=http://anth461spring2018.web.unc.edu/2018/03/tunisian-independence-and-revolution/\|title=Tunisian (In)dependence and (Re)volution\|last=WOODSON\|first=WYATT\|date=March 2018\|website=anth461spring2018.web.unc.edu/}} \| {{flag\|Tunisia}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|150}} 150{{cite book\|last=Entelis\|first=John Pierre\|title=Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa \|url=https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyst00john \|url-access=registration \|page=[https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyst00john/page/98 98] \|access-date=2015-05-13 \|year=1997 \|publisher=Indiana University Press \|isbn=0-253-21131-X }}
align=center \| 1986 \| Bombing of Libya (1986) \| {{flag\|Libya\|1977}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|100}} 100
align=center \| 1986 \| 1986 Egyptian Conscription RiotEuropa Publications Limited, The Middle East & North Africa, Volume 50: p.303 \| {{flag\|Egypt}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|107}} 107
align=center \| 1987 \| Executions by Abu Nidal's organizationThe New York Times. 1990. "Last October, the Fatah Revolutionary Council split after Abu Nidal's top aide, Atef Abu Baker, defected to P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis and set up his own faction, which he called the Fatah Revolutionary Council Emergency Leadership. Abu Baker said he had acted after Abu Nidal killed 150 of his men at his head office in the Libyan capital, Tripoli."[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/18/world/arafat-s-allies-rout-abu-nidal-group-in-lebanon.html] \| {{flag\|Libya\|1977}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|150}} 150–160
align=center \| 1990–1995 \| Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995){{ref\|c\|[c]}} \| {{flag\|Mali}}, {{flag\|Niger}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|650}} 650-1,500
align=center \| 1992–2000 \| Terrorism in Egypt{{cite web\|url=http://www.ploughshares.ca/libraries/ACRText/ACR-Egypt.html \|title=Armed Conflicts Report – Egypt \|publisher=Ploughshares.ca \|access-date=2011-02-01}}{{unreliable source?\|date=October 2011}} \| {{flag\|Egypt}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|1300}} 1,300–2,000
align=center \| 1992–2002 \| Algerian Civil War {{Citation needed\|date=January 2012}} \| {{flag\|Algeria}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|100000}} 100,000–200,000
align=center \| 2001–2002 \| Black Spring (Kabylie){{cite web \|url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Algeria/Algeria%20Unrest%20and%20Impasse%20in%20Kabylia.pdf \|title=Algeria : Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia : 10 June 2013 \|publisher=Crisisgroup.org \|access-date=2013-10-14 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730164632/http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Algeria/Algeria%20Unrest%20and%20Impasse%20in%20Kabylia.pdf \|archive-date=30 July 2013}} \| {{flag\|Algeria}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|123}} 123
align=center \| 2002–present \| Insurgency in the Maghreb \| {{flag\|Morocco}}, {{flag\|Algeria}}, {{flag\|Mauritania}}, {{flag\|Niger}}, {{flag\|Mali}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|6,000}} 6,000
align=center \| 2003–2020 \| War in Darfur \| {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|100000}} 100,000–330,000
align=center \| 2005–2010 \| Civil war in Chad (2005–2010) \| {{flag\|Chad}}, {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|1140}} 1,140
align=center \| 2007–2009 \| Tuareg Rebellion (2007–2009) \| {{flag\|Mali}}, {{flag\|Niger}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|350}} 350–1,330
align=center \| 2009–present \| Sudanese nomadic conflicts \| {{flag\|Sudan}}, {{flag\|South Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|3000}} 3,000–3,500
align=center \| 2010–2011 \| Tunisian Revolution \| {{flag\|Tunisia}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|338}} 338
align=center \| 2011–2020 \| Sudan–SPLM-N conflict \| {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|1500}} 1,500
align=center \| 2011–2014 \| Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014) \| {{flag\|Egypt}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|4686}} 4,686–4,687{{ref\|d\|[d]}}
align=center \| 2011–present \| Libyan Crisis (2011–present) \| {{flag\|Libya}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|40000}} 40,000+{{ref\|e\|[e]}}
align=center \| 2011–2013 \| 2011–2013 Sudanese protests \| {{flag\|Sudan}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|200}} 200+
align=center \| 2012–present \| Northern Mali conflict \| {{flag\|Mali}} \| align=right \| {{ntsh\|2000}} 2,000+

class="wikitable sortable"

Date

! Conflict

! Location

! Casualties

align=center | 1919

| Egyptian Revolution of 1919

| {{flagdeco|Egypt|1882}} Egypt

| align=right | {{ntsh|800}} 800{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/07/25/archives/800-natives-dead-in-egypts-rising-1600-wounded-harmsworth-tells-the.html |title=800 NATIVES DEAD IN EGYPT'S RISING - 1,600 WOUNDED - Harmsworth Tells the Commons of Casualties in the Recent Outbreak. DEATH SENTENCES FOR 39 More Than 2,000 Imprisoned- British, Army Sustained Loss of 143. ALLENBY'S CONTROL FIRM Disorders Ended in April-Mahomed Said Pasha Co-operating as Premier. - Front Page - NYTimes.com |publisher=Select.nytimes.com |date=2012-06-10 |access-date=2013-10-14}}–3,000{{cite book|last=Schulze|first=Reinhard|title=A Modern History of the Islamic World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kldfdxw0gRwC|date=March 2002|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-9819-5}}

align=center | 1920–1926

| Rif War[http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/rif-wars/timeline_third.htm Timeline for the Third Rif War (1920–25)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220013128/http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/rif-wars/timeline_third.htm |date=20 December 2011 }} Steven Thomas

| {{flag|Republic of the Rif}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|40000}} 40,000–46,400

align=center | 1939–1945

| Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II {{ref|a|[a]}}{{Verify source|date=October 2011}}

| {{flagdeco|France}} Algeria, {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Egypt}}, {{flagdeco|Italy|1861}} Libya, {{flagdeco|Morocco}} Morocco, {{flagdeco|Tunisia}} Tunisia

| align=right | {{ntsh|1000000}} 1,000,000

align=center | 1945

| 1945 Tripoli pogrom

| British Tripolitania

| align=right | {{ntsh|140}} 140

align=center | 1946

| Egyptian Student Riots {{cite web|url=http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=19417 |title=Egypt: Police Crack Down on Student Demonstration |publisher=Ikhwanweb |access-date=2013-10-14}}{{Verify source|date=February 2011}}Ahmed Abdalla, The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt 1923–1973. 2008: pp. 64–77 (1946: The Climax)

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Egypt}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|100}} 100–300

align=center | 1952

| Egyptian Revolution of 1952

| {{flagdeco|Egypt|1922}} {{flagdeco|Egypt|1952}} Egypt

| align=right | {{ntsh|1,000}} 1,000

align=center | 1952–1954

| Tunisian War of Independence{{Cite web|url=http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/middle-eastnorth-africapersian-gulf-region/french-tunisia-1881-1956/|title=French Tunisia (1881–1956)|website=University of Central Arkansas}}

| {{flag|Tunisia}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|2500}} 2,500

align=center | 1955–1972

| First Sudanese Civil War

| {{flag|Sudan}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|500000}} 500,000

align=center | 1954–1962

| Algerian War of Independence {{Cite web|url=https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/algeria-war-of-independence/|title=Algeria: War of independence|last=World Peace Foundation|date=August 2015|website=Tufts University}}

| {{flag|Algeria}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|179000}} 1,000,000–1,500,000

align=center | 1957–1958

| Ifni War

| {{flag|Morocco}}, {{Flagdeco|Spain|1945}} Spanish West Africa

| align=right | {{ntsh|8400}} 8,400

align=center | 1958–1959

| 1958 Rif riots

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|4000}} ~4000

align=center | 1961

| Bizerte crisis

| {{flag|Tunisia}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|654}} 654

align=center | 1961–1964

| First Tuareg rebellion

| {{flag|Mali}}, {{flag|Niger}}

| align=right |

align=center | 1963–1964

| Sand War

| {{flag|Morocco}}, {{flag|Algeria}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|339}} 339

align=center | 1963–1965

| Socialist Forces Front Kabyle rebellion

| {{flag|Algeria}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|400}} 400{{Cite book|title=Émeutes et Mouvements sociaux au Maghreb|last=Le Saout|first=Didier|last2=Rollinde|first2=Marguerite|publisher=Karthala|year=1999|isbn=978-2-865-37998-9|pages=46}}

align=center | 1965–1979

| Civil war in Chad

| {{flag|Chad}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|500}} 500+

align=center | 1970–present

| Western Sahara conflict{{ref|b|[b]}}

| {{flag|Mauritania}}, {{flag|Morocco}}, {{flag|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|14000}} 14,000–21,000

align=center | 1977

| Libyan–Egyptian War{{Cite book| publisher = Bison Books| isbn = 978-0-8032-8783-9| page = 365| last = Pollack| first = Kenneth M.| title = Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991| date = 2016-01-21}}

| {{flag|Egypt|1977}}, {{flag|Libya|1977}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|500}} 500

align=center | 1978–1987

| Chadian–Libyan conflict

| {{flag|Libya|1977}}, {{flag|Chad}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|8500}} 8,500

align=center | 1979–1982

| Civil conflict in Chad{{Cite journal|title=Conflict and the women of Chad.|journal=Focus on Gender|volume=1|issue=2|pages=10–2|date=June 1993|pmid = 12345211|last1 = Sy|first1 = A. D.|doi=10.1080/09682869308519962}}{{Cite web|url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/article/viewFile/14931/16000|title=The Limits of Peace-Keeping by a Regional Organization: The OAU Peace-Keeping Force in Chad|last=Sesay|first=Amadu|website=Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals}}

| {{flag|Chad}}

| align=right |

align=center | 1982–2002

| Chadian Civil War {{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}

| {{flag|Chad}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|37500}} 37,500

align=center | 1983–2005

| Second Sudanese Civil War{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14019202|title=South Sudan profile – Timeline|date=August 2018|website=BBC}}{{Cite web|url=https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/sudan-2nd-civil-war-darfur/|title=Sudan: 1985 – 2005|last=World Peace Foundation|date=August 2015|website=Tufts University}}

| {{flag|Sudan}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|600000}} 600,000–2,500,000

align=center | 1983–1984

| Tunisian bread riots{{Cite web|url=http://anth461spring2018.web.unc.edu/2018/03/tunisian-independence-and-revolution/|title=Tunisian (In)dependence and (Re)volution|last=WOODSON|first=WYATT|date=March 2018|website=anth461spring2018.web.unc.edu/}}

| {{flag|Tunisia}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|150}} 150{{cite book|last=Entelis|first=John Pierre|title=Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa

|url=https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyst00john |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/islamdemocracyst00john/page/98 98] |access-date=2015-05-13 |year=1997 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-21131-X }}

align=center | 1986

| Bombing of Libya (1986)

| {{flag|Libya|1977}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|100}} 100

align=center | 1986

| 1986 Egyptian Conscription RiotEuropa Publications Limited, The Middle East & North Africa, Volume 50: p.303

| {{flag|Egypt}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|107}} 107

align=center | 1987

| Executions by Abu Nidal's organizationThe New York Times. 1990. "Last October, the Fatah Revolutionary Council split after Abu Nidal's top aide, Atef Abu Baker, defected to P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis and set up his own faction, which he called the Fatah Revolutionary Council Emergency Leadership. Abu Baker said he had acted after Abu Nidal killed 150 of his men at his head office in the Libyan capital, Tripoli."[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/18/world/arafat-s-allies-rout-abu-nidal-group-in-lebanon.html]

| {{flag|Libya|1977}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|150}} 150–160

align=center | 1990–1995

| Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995){{ref|c|[c]}}

| {{flag|Mali}}, {{flag|Niger}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|650}} 650-1,500

align=center | 1992–2000

| Terrorism in Egypt{{cite web|url=http://www.ploughshares.ca/libraries/ACRText/ACR-Egypt.html |title=Armed Conflicts Report – Egypt |publisher=Ploughshares.ca |access-date=2011-02-01}}{{unreliable source?|date=October 2011}}

| {{flag|Egypt}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|1300}} 1,300–2,000

align=center | 1992–2002

| Algerian Civil War {{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}

| {{flag|Algeria}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|100000}} 100,000–200,000

align=center | 2001–2002

| Black Spring (Kabylie){{cite web |url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Algeria/Algeria%20Unrest%20and%20Impasse%20in%20Kabylia.pdf |title=Algeria : Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia : 10 June 2013 |publisher=Crisisgroup.org |access-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730164632/http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Algeria/Algeria%20Unrest%20and%20Impasse%20in%20Kabylia.pdf |archive-date=30 July 2013}}

| {{flag|Algeria}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|123}} 123

align=center | 2002–present

| Insurgency in the Maghreb

| {{flag|Morocco}}, {{flag|Algeria}}, {{flag|Mauritania}}, {{flag|Niger}}, {{flag|Mali}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|6,000}} 6,000

align=center | 2003–2020

| War in Darfur

| {{flag|Sudan}}

| align=right | {{ntsh|100000}} 100,000–330,000

align=center | 2005–2010

| Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)