List of wars involving Eritrea explained

This is a list of wars involving the State of Eritrea.

Colonial period

• Mahdist War (1881–1899), spilled into Eritrea in 1893–94
• Italo-Ethiopian War (1887–1889)
• First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–96)
• Italo-Turkish War (1911–12)
• Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–36)
• World War II

• East African campaign (1940–41)

Since 1950

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President of Eritrea	Eritrean losses
Eritrean War of Independence (1961 - 1991)	ELF EPLF		Victory Eritrean independence following referendum
First Eritrean Civil War (1972 - 1974)	ELF	EPLF	Truce ELF and EPLF form an alliance^[1]
Second Eritrean Civil War (1980 - 1981)	ELF	EPLF TPLF	EPLF victory ELF decisively defeated
Hanish Islands Crisis (1995)			Victory Eritrean occupation of Greater Hanish
Second Sudanese Civil War (1996 - 1998)^[2]	SPLA	Janjaweed	Stalemate Eritrean withdrawal in 1998
First Congo War (1996–1997)^[3]	AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola	ALiR Interahamwe UNITA	Victory Overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko Start of the Second Congo War
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998 - 2000)			Defeat Algiers Agreement
Djiboutian–Eritrean conflict (2008)			Indecisive Fighting subsided after three days
Tigray War (2020 - 2022)		Tigray	Victory Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement

See also

• Second Afar insurgency
• 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny

External links

• Country profile: Eritrea BBC 4 November 2005
• Ethiopia Eritrea Independence War 1961–1993
• Eritrean War for Independence
• Comparative Study Between Yemeni-Eritrean Ways of Documentation in Arbitration Over Red Sea South Islands 52 - Yemen Times December 27 through January 2, 2000, Vol IX
• Connell, Dan Eritrea-Ethiopia War Looms, Foreign Policy in Focus 21 January 2004
• Gilkes, Patrick and Plaut, Martin. The War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Foreign Policy in Focus Volume 5, Number 25 August 2000

Notes and References

1. Book: Waal, Alexander De. Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia. wolki.. 1991. Human Rights Watch. 9781564320384. en. 49.
2. https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/sudan/Sudarm988-07.htm "Military Support for Sudanese Opposition Forces."
3. Book: Plaut , Martin . Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State. en. 2016. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 9780190669591.
   • Rebel Movements and Proxy Warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986-99). Prunier. Gérard. July 2004. African Affairs. 10.1093/afraf/adh050. 412. 103. 359–383. 3518562.