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List of conflicts

Date Conflict Location Casualties
1919 Egyptian Revolution of 1919 Egypt 800[1]–3,000[2]
1920–1926 Rif War[3]  Republic of the Rif 40,000–46,400
1939–1945 Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II [a][verification needed] Algeria,  Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia 1,000,000
1945 1945 Tripoli pogrom British Tripolitania 140
1946 Egyptian Student Riots [4][verification needed][5]  Egypt 100–300
1952 Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Egypt 1,000
1952–1954 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,  Niger
1963–1964 Sand War  Morocco,  Algeria 339
1963–1965 Socialist Forces Front Kabyle rebellion  Algeria 400[8]
1965–1979 Civil war in Chad  Chad 500+
1970–present Western Sahara conflict[b]  Mauritania,  Morocco,  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic 14,000–21,000
1977 Libyan–Egyptian War[9]  Egypt,  Libya 500
1978–1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict  Libya,  Chad 8,500
1979–1982 Civil conflict in Chad[10][11]  Chad
1982–2002 Chadian Civil War[citation needed]  Chad 37,500
1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War[12][13]  Sudan 600,000–2,500,000
1983–1984 Tunisian bread riots[14]  Tunisia 150[15]
1986 Bombing of Libya (1986)  Libya 100
1986 1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot[16]  Egypt 107
1987 Executions by Abu Nidal's organization[17]  Libya 150–160
1990–1995 Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995)[c]  Mali,  Niger 650-1,500
1992–2000 Terrorism in Egypt[18][unreliable source?]  Egypt 1,300–2,000
1992–2002 Algerian Civil War[citation needed]  Algeria 100,000–200,000
2001–2002 Black Spring (Kabylie)[19]  Algeria 123
2002–present Insurgency in the Maghreb  Morocco,  Algeria,  Mauritania,  Niger,  Mali 6,000
2003–2020 War in Darfur  Sudan 100,000–330,000
2005–2010 Civil war in Chad (2005–2010)  Chad,  Sudan 1,140
2007–2009 Tuareg Rebellion (2007–2009)  Mali,  Niger 350–1,330
2009–present Sudanese nomadic conflicts  Sudan,  South Sudan 3,000–3,500
2010–2011 Tunisian Revolution  Tunisia 338
2011–2020 Sudan–SPLM-N conflict  Sudan 1,500
2011–2014 Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014)  Egypt 4,686–4,687[d]
2011–present Libyan Crisis (2011–present)  Libya 40,000+[e]
2011–2013 2011–2013 Sudanese protests  Sudan 200+
2012–present Northern Mali conflict  Mali 2,000+

Casualties breakdown

^ North African Campaign (WWII) – combined figure ~430,000 killed:

^ Western Sahara conflict (1970–present) combined casualty figure 14,000–21,000+:

^ Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995) combined casualties at least 650–1,500:

^ Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014) combined casualty figure 4,686–4,687:

^ Libyan Crisis (2011–present) combined casualty figure 40,000+:

See also

References

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  2. ^ Schulze, Reinhard (March 2002). A Modern History of the Islamic World. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9819-5.
  3. ^ Timeline for the Third Rif War (1920–25) Archived 20 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine Steven Thomas
  4. ^ "Egypt: Police Crack Down on Student Demonstration". Ikhwanweb. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  5. ^ Ahmed Abdalla, The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt 1923–1973. 2008: pp. 64–77 (1946: The Climax)
  6. ^ "French Tunisia (1881–1956)". University of Central Arkansas.
  7. ^ World Peace Foundation (August 2015). "Algeria: War of independence". Tufts University.
  8. ^ Le Saout, Didier; Rollinde, Marguerite (1999). Émeutes et Mouvements sociaux au Maghreb. Karthala. p. 46. ISBN 978-2-865-37998-9.
  9. ^ Pollack, Kenneth M. (21 January 2016). Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991. Bison Books. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-8032-8783-9.
  10. ^ Sy, A. D. (June 1993). "Conflict and the women of Chad". Focus on Gender. 1 (2): 10–2. doi:10.1080/09682869308519962. PMID 12345211.
  11. ^ Sesay, Amadu. "The Limits of Peace-Keeping by a Regional Organization: The OAU Peace-Keeping Force in Chad". Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals.
  12. ^ "South Sudan profile – Timeline". BBC. August 2018.
  13. ^ World Peace Foundation (August 2015). "Sudan: 1985 – 2005". Tufts University.
  14. ^ WOODSON, WYATT (March 2018). "Tunisian (In)dependence and (Re)volution". anth461spring2018.web.unc.edu/.
  15. ^ Entelis, John Pierre (1997). Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa. Indiana University Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-253-21131-X. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  16. ^ Europa Publications Limited, The Middle East & North Africa, Volume 50: p.303
  17. ^ The 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."[1]
  18. ^ "Armed Conflicts Report – Egypt". Ploughshares.ca. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  19. ^ "Algeria : Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia : 10 June 2013" (PDF). Crisisgroup.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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