List of wars involving Ghana

This article is a list of military conflicts involving Ghana.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Congo Crisis[1]
(1960-1964)		 ONUC  Katanga

ANC

 Victory
Operation Cold Chop
(1966)		 Ghana (Nkrumah government) National Liberation Council
Alleged Support:
 United States
 United Kingdom		 NLC Victory
Operation Guitar Boy
(1967)		  Ghana (NLC) Coup plotters NLC Victory
  • Coup failure
Lebanese Civil War
and South Lebanon conflict
(1978–present)		 UNIFIL South Lebanon Army
 Israel

Hezbollah
Amal
PFLP-GC

 Ongoing
June 4th coup d'etat
(1979)		  Ghana (Supreme Military Council) Armed Forces Revolutionary Council AFRC Victory
Nobistor affair[6][7][8]
(1985)		  Ghana (Provisional National Defence Council) Supporters of Godfrey Osei
United States mercenaries		 PNDC Victory
  • Coup plot failed
  • Mercenaries detained in Brazil
First Liberian Civil War[9]
(1990-1997)		 ECOMOG NPFL Defeat
  • NPFL victory
Rwandan Civil War
(1993-1994)		 UNAMIR Rwanda Defeat
Sierra Leone Civil War[10]
(1997-2002)		 ECOMOG & UNAMSIL[lower-alpha 1]

Sierra Leone

 United Kingdom
 Guinea

 RUF

AFRC
West Side Boys
Liberia

 Victory
First Ivorian Civil War[11]
(2003-2007)		 ECOMOG

 France

  Ivory Coast
COJEP

FNCI
 Liberia

 Tentative peace agreement
  • Second Ivorian Civil War
Second Ivorian Civil War[12][13]
(2010-2011)		 UNOCI

FNCI
RDR
 France[14]
 Ukraine[15]

 Military of Ivory Coast
COJEP
FPI		 Victory
Mali War[16]
(2013-2017)		 MINUSMA

Government of Mali
 France

 MNLA

Al-Qaeda

Boko Haram

 Islamic State

 Withdrawal[17][18]
  • Ghana withdraws troops in 2017 due to security concerns
ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia
(2017)		 ECOMOG Pro-Jammeh forces Ongoing
Western Togoland Rebellion
(2020)		  Ghana Western Togoland Restoration Front Ongoing

See also

References
  1. Mohan, Jitendra (October 1969). "Ghana, The Congo, and the United Nations". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 7 (3): 369–406. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00018565. JSTOR 159059.
  2. "410/1 - Project Yellow Knife - Port Francqui Incident - UNARMS". search.archives.un.org.
  3. "486/11/ORD - Losses at Port Francqui - UNARMS". search.archives.un.org.
  4. Kusi, Brig-Gen. Benjamin (October 2017). "Ghana's experiences in peace operations and contingent weapons management" (PDF). Small Arms Survey. pp. 44-45.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. "Royal Leicestershire Regiment". royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk.
  6. Duvall, Pierre (April 1987). "Soldiers of Misfortune, Part One". Soldier of Fortune. Omega Group Ltd.
  7. Coleman, John (May 1987). "Soldiers of Misfortune, Part 2: American Mercs Board Slow Boat to Ghana". Soldier of Fortune. Omega Group Ltd.
  8. Coleman, John (June 1987). "Soldiers of Misfortune Part Three: Capture, Jail, and the Great Escape". Soldier of Fortune. Omega Group Ltd.
  9. Aning, Emmanuel Kwesi (1996). "Ghana, ECOWAS and the Liberian Crisis: An Analysis of Ghana's Role in Liberia". Liberian Studies Journal. 21 (2): 259–299.
  10. Cooper, Tom; Chick, Court (August 5, 2004). "Sierra Leone, 1990-2002". Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  11. Cooper, Tom; Mladenov, Alexander (August 5, 2004). "Cote d'Ivoire, since 2002". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  12. "Ghana's air force in a class of its own". africanaerospace.aero. A recent example was in neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire during the genocide, where A109 helicopters were used as gunships and Bell 412s for troop transport.
  13. "Legacy of Ghav's pioneers of peace". africanaerospace.aero.
  14. Nossiter, Adam (4 April 2011). "Strikes by U.N. and France Corner Leader of Ivory Coast". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  15. Рада направила в Кот-д’Ивуар 60 украинских миротворцев и три вертолёта. Комитет ВР и Томенко — против Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine // NEWSRU.UA от 4 февраля 2011 (in Russian)
  16. "Ghana's small unit making a huge impact". africanaerospace.aero.
  17. "Ghana withdraws troops from Mali for security concerns". graphic.com.
  18. "Ghana Air Force Climax Duty Tour In Mali". modernghana.com.
  1. Ghana "changed hats" from ECOMOG to UN after UNAMSIL entered the conflict.
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