List of wars involving Malawi

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This is a list of wars involving Malawi. Along with these wars, Malawi participated in World War II on the Allied side (it was considered a British colony at the time, and the British were on the Allied side).

Conflict | Malawi
and allies | Opponents | Results | President
of Malawi | Losses

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Chilembwe uprising
(1915)  | Chilembwe Rebels  |  British Empire

* Nyasaland

| Defeat |  |
Nyasaland Emergency

(1959-1960)

| NAC |  British Empire

* Nyasaland

| Defeat

* Leading Nyasaland African Congress members arrested
* Nyasaland African Congress suppressed

|  | 51 killed, 79 injured, 3,300 arrested
Mozambican Civil War
(1987–1992)  |  FRELIMO
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Malawi |  RENAMO
MYP | Stalemate

* Malawi backs both sides from 1987 to 1992

Hastings Banda

100+ killed[1]

Operation Bwezani
(1993)  |  Malawi |  MYP | Victory to the Defence Force

* MYP violently dismantled

Unknown

M23 Rebellion
(2012-2013)  |  Democratic Republic of the Congo

MONUSCO

* Force Intervention Brigade
* South Africa[2]
* Tanzania[3]
* Malawi[4]

|  March 23 Movement
Alleged support:

* Uganda[5]
* Rwanda[5]

| Victory

* M23 disarms and demobilises[6]

Joyce Banda

None

ADF Insurgency
(2014–)  |  DR Congo
Uganda
South Africa
Tanzania
Malawi |  ADF | Ongoing

* UNF Intervention Brigade intervention from 2014

Peter Mutharika

1 dead

## References

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1. ^ "Afrikka" (PDF).
2. ^ South Africa deploys troops to DR Congo: News Archived 24 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Africareview.com (2 June 2012). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
3. ^ "Last batch of Tanzanian troops now in Goma for the Force Intervention Brigade". MONUSCO. 12 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
4. ^ "UN troops clash with rebels in DR Congo – Africa". Al Jazeera English. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
5. ^ a b According to a leaked U.N. report. "Rwanda defence chief leads DR Congo rebels, UN report says". BBC. 17 October 2012. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
6. ^ Andrew Harding (5 November 2013). "BBC News – DR Congo M23 rebels 'end insurgency'". BBC. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-06.

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Lists of wars involving African countries

Sovereign states|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Republic of the Congo
* Djibouti
* Egypt
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Eswatini
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* The Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Africa
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

States with limited
recognition

* Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
* Somaliland

Dependencies and
other territories

* Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
* Madeira (Portugal)
* Mayotte / Réunion (France)
* Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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