Eritrean War of Independence
September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991 · Asmara
Result EPLF victory
Thirty-year war in which Eritrean independence fighters, led from the 1970s by the EPLF, fought Ethiopian rule until they took Asmara in 1991.
Eritrean independence movement
Ethiopia
Other
Strength and losses
- Killed
- 65,000–70,000
- Strength
- 120,000
- Killed
- c. 100,000
- Captured
- 33,895
- Civilian deaths
- 150,000–280,000
Battles 5
- Eritrean Civil Wars October 13, 1974 · 1st Civil War: ELF fails to suppress rivals 2nd Civil War: ELF decisively defeated
- First Battle of Massawa 1977 – 1978 · Ethiopian victory
- Siege of Barentu May 5, 1977 · Ethiopian victory
- Battle of Afabet March 17–20, 1988 · EPLF victory
- Second Battle of Massawa February 8–10, 1990 · EPLF victory