Conflicts in the Horn of Africa
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The Horn of Africa.
The conflicts in the Horn of Africa have continuously ravaged that region recently.
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[edit] History
The Horn of Africa is a region continuously in crisis. Ethiopia occupies a predominant position in the Horn because of its demographic importance: about 85% of the area's population live in this country. Yet Ethiopia's history is largely marked by conflicts between ethnic groups for resources and living space, as well as between nationalism and Marxism-Leninism in the modern times. The rest of the region also faces continuous wars: a civil war erupted in Somalia in 1986, resulting in the country having had no functioning national government since 1991.
[edit] Colonial conflicts
- First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-1896
- Dervish resistance against Italy, UK, Ethiopian and other somalis 1899-1920
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-1936
[edit] World War I
- East African Campaign (World War I) 1914-1918
[edit] World War II
- East African Campaign (World War II) 1940-1941
[edit] Recent conflicts
| Recent conflicts in the Horn of Africa |
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| Eritrean War of Independence – Eritrean Civil War – Ethiopian Civil War – Ogaden War – Somali Civil War – Djiboutian Civil War – Hanish islands crisis – Eritrean-Ethiopian War – OEF-Horn of Afirca - Ethiopian war in Somalia - Ogaden conflict |
- Eritrean War of Independence 1961 - 1991, between Eritrean liberation fronts (primarily the EPLF and early on also the ELF) and Marxist Derg-ruled Ethiopia
- Shifta War 1963-1967, separatist insurgency by ethnic Somalis in Kenya
- Ethiopian Civil War 1974-1991, between the Derg (ruling government of Ethiopia) and various rebel groups, as well as amongst the rebel groups, including the Marxist Ethiopian EPRP, MEISON, and TPLF, the Eritrean EPLF, ELF, the monarchist EDU (in the first stage of the war), and the Somali WSLF; included Red Terror
- Ogaden War 1977 - 1978 between Ethiopia and Somalia (also an element in the Ethiopian Civil War)
- Djiboutian Civil War 1991 - 1994
- Ethiopian-Eritrean War 1998 - 2000, between Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Somali Civil War 1986 - present
- Operation Restore Hope - 1992 - 1993, UN intervention
- War in Somalia - 2006 - present, Ethiopian intervention
- Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa October 2002-present,between NATO and al-Qaeda
- 2007 Ogaden conflict between Ethiopia and the ONLF
[edit] See also
- Political history of Eastern Africa (for ancient, medieval, and early modern conflicts)
- History of Djibouti
- History of Eritrea
- History of Ethiopia
- History of Somalia
