Cold War in Africa - Mapped (1945 - 1991)

The Egyptian Government seized control of the _____ Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it.

This war is well known after Libya invaded its southern neighbor, and with help from France, the southern country defeated Libya, a country with powerful Soviet-era weaponry, with an iconic 400 Toyota pick-up trucks.

This conflict was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea, leaded by the organization of PAIGC.

This was a war which was chiefly fought in southeastern Nigeria, where the secessionist state of Biafra launched a revolutionary war against Nigeria. Ultimately, Nigeria won the war and reincorporated Biafra into the country.

This was an armed independence movement where insurgents engaged in guerrilla warfare to liberate their nation from the control of the Ethiopian Empire under Haile Selassie and later the Derg under Mengistu.

This civil war was a military conflict fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government rebels.

This was a major war in the Ogaden region where the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) waged a guerrilla war against the Ethiopian government. After the war, an estimated 800,000 people crossed the border into Somalia where they would be displaced as refugees for the next 15 years.

This conflict is an insurgency in the northern exclave of Angola to gain independence.

This war a protracted armed conflict between the MPLA, a communist armed organization supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and other armed groups, most prominently the anti-communist groups UNITA and FNLA, supported by the United States and its allies.

This was a crisis which began almost immediately after the country became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.

This conflict was a civil war fought in Uganda by the official Ugandan government and its armed wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), against a number of rebel groups, most importantly the National Resistance Army (NRA)

This conflict pitted the white minority-led government of Ian Smith against guerilla forces such as ZANLA, ZANU and ZAPU in modern day Zimbabwe.

This civil war was fought between the FRELIMO government and the RENAMO it resulted in over 1 million deaths and ended with a peace agreement in 1992, leading to multiparty elections in 1994.

This conflict was fought between Uganda and Tanzania and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin. The war was preceded by a deterioration of relations between Uganda and Tanzania following Amin's 1971 overthrow of President Milton Obote, who was close to the President of Tanzania,

This large scale war was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO).