The deadliest African conflicts during the 20th century.

[Keep it a boqol]

Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998 - 2000), 250,000 fatalities

The Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), 500,000 fatalities

The First Liberian Civil War (1989-1997), 600,000 fatalities.

The Rwandan Genocide (April-August 1994), 1,000,000 fatalities

The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), 1,100,000 fatalities.

Ethiopian Civil War (1974 - 1991), 1,700,00 fatalities

The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), 2,000,000 fatalities

The Second Congo War (1998-2004), 5,400,000 fatalities

As of 2024 we are seeing war and genocide in Ethiopia, Congo and Sudan.

 

[Zak12]

Sometimes you gotta wonder if Somalia really is worst country in Africa. Yes, its been in a nonstop civil war but so has Myanmar. Warfare and the death toll has mostly plateaued and has been stable at this point with little escalations. More Somalis have been dying from famines than direct conflict.

Meanwhile you got niggas in Ethiopia and Sudan butchering each other by the millions within a much shorter timespan. That is scary wallahi, utter insanity. Yeah they have bigger populations but what is happening in those countries to cause such massive death tolls?

 

[Nilotic]

It's messed up that the 1st Sudanese civil war wasn't mentioned when it actually took at least half a million lives

 

[The alchemist]

Sometimes you gotta wonder if Somalia really is worst country in Africa. Yes, its been in a nonstop civil war but so has Myanmar. Warfare and the death toll has mostly plateaued and has been stable at this point with little escalations. More Somalis have been dying from famines than direct conflict.

Meanwhile you got niggas in Ethiopia and Sudan butchering each other by the millions within a much shorter timespan. That is scary wallahi, utter insanity. Yeah they have bigger populations but what is happening in those countries to cause such massive death tolls?

One can technically say that death from famine is the consequence of conflicts because they break down the systems that could have helped those people in need who died. In these times, food insecurity that leads to deaths is a system issue because the concept of countries should provide the bare necessities for their citizens. If people die of hunger, then something severely wrong is going on with the system itself that is human-caused. I understand when people died of famine centuries ago because they might have been isolated and afflicted with situations they struggled to deal with. These days, such excuses do not exist.

Access to basic sustenance is a right in Islam:

Uthman ibn Affan reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “There is no right for the son of Adam other than these things: a house in which he lives, a garment to cover his nakedness, a piece of bread, and water.”

Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2341

Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Tirmidhi

 

[Nilotic]

what year was it sxb?

1960 to 1973

 

[Keep it a boqol]

1960 to 1973

i found this on /africavoice they must have left it i was wondering when and why the first sudanese war wasn’t listed

 

[The alchemist]

1960 to 1973

There is a troubling idea that people outside and inside Africa downplay the suffering of Africans. Famines are normalized, which is crazy. I think it exposes a big problem.

Similar to how humans have less regard for animal suffering, African suffering is seen as less of a concern because we're viewed as less than in more than one way. Can it be caused by the fact that such issues occur often on the continent? That might be correct. But I think there is a sense of apathy with humans where the more someone suffers on a large scale, the more people tune down their empathy to cope with their lack of involvement. I struggle to internalize this myself. A famine in Tigray does not feel immediate, but if we traveled down there and saw what took place, then we would be horrified.

An individual's story might move us. But when a statistic of thousands of such people is registered, something happens in the mind that you cannot penetrate. And the question is, would that be a healthy thing to do? To truly gauge the suffering of hundreds of thousands? I don't know. There are people who decline in their lives because they only see the suffering and not the good things. That seems to be the opposite. Had everyone felt that way, however, we would see way more action.

 

[Xeda]

Sometimes you gotta wonder if Somalia really is worst country in Africa. Yes, its been in a nonstop civil war but so has Myanmar. Warfare and the death toll has mostly plateaued and has been stable at this point with little escalations. More Somalis have been dying from famines than direct conflict.

Meanwhile you got niggas in Ethiopia and Sudan butchering each other by the millions within a much shorter timespan. That is scary wallahi, utter insanity. Yeah they have bigger populations but what is happening in those countries to cause such massive death tolls?

We’re not that far behind other African countries despite being in a civil war for 30 years and having no functioning government it’s honestly quite surprising.

 

[chronic]

This will probably intensify in the next few decades