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Modern African conflicts : an encyclopedia of civil wars, revolutions, and terrorism / Timothy J. Stapleton, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil war--Africa--History--Encyclopedias.
- Civil war.
- Revolutions--Africa--History--Encyclopedias.
- Revolutions.
- Terrorism--Africa--History--Encyclopedias.
- Terrorism.
- Africa--History, Military--Encyclopedias.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Modern African conflicts
- ISBN:
- 9781440869709
- 1440869707
- Publisher Number:
- 99991358926
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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