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Northern Africa (UN subregion)
geographic, including above
Note:
- "Modern" is defined as post-WWI period, from 1918 until today.
- "North Africa" definition is approximately overlapping the Arab term `Maghreb`.
- "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[]
| Date | Conflict | Location | Casualties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | Anglo Egyptian Darfur Expedition | Darfur | |
| 1919 | Egyptian Revolution of 1919 [1][2] |  Egypt
|
800-3,000 |
| 1920-1926 | Rif War[citation needed] |  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 [3][verification needed][4] | Egypt
|
100–300 |
| 1952 | Egyptian Revolution of 1952 |  Egypt
|
1,000 |
| 1952-1954 | Tunisian War of Independence[citation needed] | Tunisia
|
2,500 |
| 1953-1956 | Moroccan War of Independence[citation needed] | Morocco
|
3,000 |
| 1955-1972 | First Sudanese Civil War |  Sudan
|
500,000 |
| 1954-1962 | Algerian War of Independence[citation needed] |  Algeria
|
179,000-1,500,000 |
| 1957-1958 | Ifni War | Morocco
|
8,400 |
| 1961 | Bizerte crisis | Tunisia
|
654 |
| 1961-1964 | First Tuareg rebellion |  Mali  Niger
|
|
| 1963-1964 | 1963 Algerian civil war | Algeria
|
1,500 |
| 1963-1964 | Sand War | Morocco, Algeria
|
339 |
| 1965-1979 | Civil war in Chad |  Chad
|
500+ |
| 1975- | Western Sahara conflict [b][verification needed] |  Mauritania, Morocco,  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
|
14,000-21,000 |
| 1977 | Libyan–Egyptian War[citation needed] |  Egypt,  Libya
|
500 |
| 1977 | 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots [5][verification needed][6] | Egypt
|
70–800 |
| 1978-1987 | Chadian–Libyan conflict | Libya, Chad
|
8,500 |
| 1979-1982 | Civil conflict in Chad[citation needed] | Chad
|
|
| 1982-2002 | Chadian Civil War[citation needed] | Chad
|
37,500 |
| 1983-2005 | Second Sudanese Civil War[citation needed] | Sudan
|
600,000-2,500,000 |
| 1986 | Bombing of Libya (1986) | Libya
|
100 |
| 1986 | 1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot [7] | Egypt
|
107 |
| 1987 | Executions by Abu Nidal's organization[8] | Libya
|
150-160 |
| 1990-1995 | Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995)[c] | Mali Niger
|
650-1,500 |
| 1992–2000 | Terrorism in Egypt [9][unreliable source?] | Egypt
|
1,300–2,000 |
| 1992-2002 | Algerian Civil War[citation needed] | Algeria
|
100,000-200,000 |
| 2001-2002 | Black Spring (Kabylie) [10] | Algeria
|
123 |
| 2002- | Insurgency in the Maghreb | Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Mali
|
6,000 |
| 2003-2009 | War in Darfur[citation needed] | 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- | Sudanese nomadic conflicts | Sudan  South Sudan
|
3,000-3,500 |
| 2010– | Arab Spring[d] | Tunisia, Egypt,  Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, SADR
|
26,400-31,400 |
| 2011- | Sudan–SPLM-N conflict | Sudan
|
1,500 |
| 2012-2013 | 2012 insurgency in northern Mali | Mali
|
105-117 |
Casualties breakdown[]
[a].^ North African Campaign (WWII) - combined figure ~430,000 killed:
- Western Desert Campaign - 50,000 casualties.
- Battle of Cape Bon - 900+ casualties.
- Raid on Alexandria (1941) - 8 casualties.
- Action off Cape Bougaroun - 27 killed.
- Mers al-Kbir - 1,299 killed.
- Operation Torch - 1,825 killed.
- Tunisia campaign - ~376,000 killed.
[b].^ Polisario Front dispute for independence (combined casualty figure 14,020-14,038):
- Western Sahara War - 7,000 Moroccan, Mauritianian and French soldiers killed; 4,000 Polisario killed; 3,000 civilians killed.
- Independence Intifada (Western Sahara) - 1 killed.
- Gdeim Izik protest camp - 18-36 killed.
- 2011 Sahrawi protests - 1 killed.
[c].^ Tuareg rebellion (1990-1995) combined casualties at least 650-1,500:
- Tchin-Tabaradene massacre - 650-1,500 civilians killed.
[d].^ Arab Spring combined casualty figure 26,363-31,370:
- Crisis in Egypt
- 2011 Egyptian Revolution - 846 killed
- Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution - 179 killed.
- Tunisian Revolution - 224 killed.
- Libyan crisis
- 2011 Libyan civil war - 25,000-30,000 killed.
- Post-civil war violence in Libya - Over 1000 killed.
- 2011 Western Saharan protests - 1 killed.
- 2010–2011 Algerian protests - 8 killed.
- 2011 Moroccan protests - 1 killed.
- 2011 Sudanese protests - 1 killed.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "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". Select.nytimes.com. 2012-06-10. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B17F83D5C147A93C7AB178CD85F4D8185F9. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ↑ "A Modern History of the Islamic World - Reinhard Schulze - Google Books". Google.com. 2002-05-28. http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ODfRbCkr9TAC&oi=fnd&pg=PR10&dq=hauran+rebellion+1909&ots=UnED07aNAU&sig=Lvms9i2BXXPzFwn7OhsN7i9WXp0#v=onepage&q=killed&f=false. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
- ↑ "Egypt: Police Crack Down on Student Demonstration". Ikhwanweb. http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=19417. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ↑ Ahmed Abdalla, The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt 1923–1973. 2008: pp. 64–77 (1946: The Climax)
- ↑ "1977: Egypt's bread intifada". libcom.org. http://libcom.org/history/1977-egypts-bread-intifada. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ↑ http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5112
- ↑ Europa Publications Limited, The Middle East & North Africa, Volume 50: p.303
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ "Armed Conflicts Report – Egypt". Ploughshares.ca. http://www.ploughshares.ca/libraries/ACRText/ACR-Egypt.html. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ↑ "Algeria : Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia : 10 June 2013". Crisisgroup.org. http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Algeria/Algeria%20Unrest%20and%20Impasse%20in%20Kabylia.pdf. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
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