List of modern conflicts in North Africa
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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`.
- "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
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
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- ↑ [1] Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 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."[2]
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