Afabet, Battle of
African Armed Forces
Afwerki, Isaias
Air power in postcolonial African wars
Al-Bashir, Omar (Umar) Hassan Ahmad
Algerian Civil War
Algerian War of Independence
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Al-Shabaab
Amin, Idi
Angolan Armed Forces (FAPLA and FAA)
Angolan conflicts
Ansar al-Sharia in Libya
Anyanya
Arab Spring
Arab-Israeli wars
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Army of Islamic Salvation (AIS)
Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA)
Barre, Mohamed Siad
Belgian Military Intervention in Africa
Bokassa, Jean-Bďel
Boko Haram
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz
Bozizé, François
British military involvement in postcolonial Africa
Burundi, Civil War and genocide
Buyoya, Pierre
Cabindan Insurgency
Cabral, Aml̕car
Cameroon conflicts
Canadian military involvement in Africa
Casamance Separatism
Central African Republic (CAR), Conflict in
Chad, Conflict in
Child soldiers in Africa
Christmas war
Cold War in Africa
Congo crisis
Congo wars
Côte d'Ivoire Civil War
Coups and military regimes in Africa
Cuba and Africa
Cuito Cuanavale, Battle of
Darfur genocide
Déby, Idriss
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Continuing violence in
Diamonds and conflict in postcolonial Africa
Doe, Samuel
Dos Santos, Jose Eduardo
East African mutiny
ECOWAS military interventions
Eritrea-Ethiopia War
Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)
Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF)
Eritrean War of Independence
Ethiopia : insurgency and interstate war
Famine in postcolonial African conflicts
"Five Majors" Coup, Nigeria French military involvement in postcolonial Africa
Gaddafi, Muammar
Garang, John de Mabior
Gbagbo, Laurent
Genocide in Africa
Gowon, Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma
Habré, Hissène
Habyarimana, Juvènal
Haftar, Khalifa Belqasim
Hutu Power Movements
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)
Janjaweed
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)
Kabila, Joseph
Kabila, Laurent
Kagame, Paul
Kagera War
Kenya, Mau Mau emergency
Kiir, Salva Mayardit
Lagu, Joseph Yanga
Liberian Civil wars
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
Libya, Conflicts with Egypt and the United States
Libyan Civil War, First
Libyan Civil War, Second
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
Machar, Riek Teny Dhurgon
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mercenaries in African conflicts
Micombero, Michel
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mogadishu, Battle of
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Mondlane, Eduardo
Mozambique Civil War
Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO)
Mugabe, Robert
Museveni, Yoweri
Namibia Independence War
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA)
National Liberation Front (FLN) Algeria
National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL)
National Resistance Army (NRA)
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
Navies in postcolonial Africa
Neto, Antn̤io Agostinho
Nigerian Civil War
Nkomo, Joshua
Nkurunziza, Pierre
Nujoma, Sam
Nyerere, Julius
Ogaden War
Ojukwu, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Operation Boleas : the SADC's Military intervention into Lesotho Operation Restore Hope
Peacekeeping in Africa
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
Portuguese Africa, Independence Wars (Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau)
Quifangondo, Battle of
Refugees in postcolonial Africa
Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
Roberto, Holden Álverto
Rwanda, Civil War and genocide
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
Sankara, Thomas
Sankoh, Foday Saybana
Savimbi, Jonas
Shaba, Zaire : rebel incursions and foreign intervention
Sierra Leone Civil War
Sirte, Battle of
Somalia Civil War
South Africa, Armed struggle against apartheid
South Africa's border war
South Sudan Civil War
South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO)
Soviet military involvement in Africa
Sudan Civil War, First
Sudan Civil War, Second
Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)
Sudan People's Liberation Movement/ Army (SPLM/A)
Suez Crisis
Taylor, Charles McArthur Ghankay
Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)
Tuareg Rebellions since 1960 (Mali and Niger)
Uganda, Insurgency in the North
Uganda's Civil War : the Bush war
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
U.S. Africa Command
U.S. Military involvement in Africa
Western Sahara, Conflict in
Women and War in Africa
Zenawi, Meles
Zimbabwe, Massacres (Gukurahundi)
Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)
Zimbabwe Independence War.