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Conflict Africa

Somali Civil War

1991 CE – 2026 CE · 35 years

The collapse of Siad Barre's regime plunged Somalia into decades of clan warfare, warlordism, and Islamist insurgency. The country became the world's most prominent 'failed state', with famine, piracy, and the rise of Al-Shabaab keeping it in perpetual crisis.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Various clan militias, Al-Shabaab, ISIS-Somalia
  • Somali Federal Government, AMISOM/ATMIS

Key moments

Defining events in the Somali Civil War.

  1. 1993 Battle of Mogadishu / 'Black Hawk Down'
  2. 2006 Ethiopian intervention
  3. 2007-present AMISOM operations

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Zaire (Belgium)

1920 CE – 1997 CE

Conflict · Africa

Angolan Civil War

1975 CE – 2002 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Rwandan Civil War & Genocide

1990 CE – 1994 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1991 CE and 2026 CE.

1991 CE Sierra Leone Civil War 1992 CE US Intervention in Somalia (UNOSOM) 1993 CE Burundi Civil War 1993 CE Battle of Mogadishu 1996 CE First Congo War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Cristo Rei of Dili Landmark · Oceania 1996 CE – still standing Yugoslavia Polity · Europe 1918 CE – 1992 CE Deng Xiaoping Figure · Sichuan, China 1904 CE – 1997 CE Eritrean–Ethiopian War Conflict · Middle East 1998 CE – 2000 CE China–Europe Railway (Belt and Road) Trade route · East Asia 2011 CE Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Landmark · Middle East 2001 CE – still standing
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