4 Horrific African Wars You've Probably Never Heard Of
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- Explore four forgotten African conflicts and the profound tragedies they brought. From the Second Congo War to Liberia's civil strife, we delve into the overlooked horrors of war and its lasting scars.
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I just started the video but I already know I’m about to see a Toyota Hilux with a machine gun mounted in the bed.
'Technical-ly' yes! Lol 😂
It's funny because it's true.
And that makes it sad.
Sadly it is the Spirit Animal of modern African conflicts.
tanks are obsolete and 3 of these with rpgs can swarm and destroy a tank... and the tank won't be able to run faster... or how about drone warfare? you need a vehicle that can outrun the drone long enough to jam it... that's not a tank either... many countries deply weaponized Toyota over armor... Mexico for example in its fight against the cartel... really be stupid to use heavy armor... it seems silly, but I guarantee when someone shouts "technical" it gets immediate attention an respect... trust me 🙏🏻 and anyone who lies and says they don't get anxious, is just lying... light infantry usually doesn't have much to deal with them, and a single one will alter your whole strategy and will keep coming up in discussion... you know Toyota is loving this 😅
@@phyrhfbr1819"Tanks are obsolete" a sure-fire sign someone has no idea what they're talking about
Odd in an age of information, how much information we dont get.
Sometimes you have to put in a little effort and go and find it.
Sometimes it’s obscurantism by overload. Where there is so much information *and* misinformation you don’t even know what to search for.
Because who cares lol
Because who cares?
@@fathertimegaming17 oh I agree. Even these videos have bias and require further research. It's on oneself to figure out the truth.
Its wild, I live in South Africa and even we don't hear anything about the horrors happening just up north.
And yet we have soldiers stationed in CAR as part of a AU and UN peacekeeping force.
It depends if you are white or black living in South Africa
@@yanina.korolko No it does not, it depends on wether you read the news or look at history. Idiotic statement.
@@yanina.korolko Why is it dependant on skin colour?
@@AyandaKula because white people in South Africa do not care about what happens to Black people in Africa… 🥹🫣🫢. Because there is still racism in Africa.
Unfortunately the African way is regularly needing a liberator to liberate you from your liberator.
I'm pretty sure that's the European way..
It’s cultural
I have read that "Anti-Balaka" is a reference to the way the French refer to the AK round, "Balle, Ah Kah." The Muslim fighters are heavily associated with AK rifles, thus the mostly Christian groups opposed to them are "Anti-Balaka"
Should make one of these for every continent. There’s so much that hasn’t reached the popular conscious
"Embers", as you mentioned, along with the smoke rising from them are rarely noticed. But this represents something for many who can't comprehend. But this reference was hyperbolic, but understood! Truly appreciate your capturing and reporting on this evil sequel of events here. I am lost on the worldwide media focus on hype for the moment.
*Hmm* This feels like a topic for "Warfronts"...but whatever 😅
Works for me 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe warographics is not getting enough attention I.e why he decided to bring it here
Sadly, this has been going on for a long time. I've seen a little about these wars but not much
I was in Chad 1985-6. Pretty lively, but managed not to get eaten.
😂🤣
How are these not talked about more?
Because there's no Jews to blame.
It’s Africa
Equilamentable. That's a ten dollar word and suitable for the subject matter.
Just got to the end and it's a George script. Well written and respectfully told about sensitive subjects, classic George.
I'd like to see a video on the war going on in Cameron. No one really mentions it and I can't find much information about it online.
@@Phil_X splitting hairs Numbnuts
People are overflooded with news and information about conflicts. Even someone would like to keep track of everything... hardly possible.
Sometimes I wonder how Simon can deal with all that he reports on. It never gets any easier to more you see
Thanks for all the info! Great job! Keep it up! Seems like life has no real value in most places on earth. The League of Nations would have taken care of this.
The League of Nations was toothless which is why it wasn't able to do anything to stop WW2 from erupting.
Biafra, I'm very surprised you don't mention it. Informed people know but most people choose not to be informed.
I think he’s done a video on it
@@ITBECMANreally?? Little did I know
Bro this continent can’t catch a break I swear
Beasts of No Nation was really good movie that showed the things child soldiers endured
Watching your channel is always an exciting and educational journey. Keep inspiring and teaching us with your videos!🐈🐆🎱
Another true tragedy of Africa is that these four conflicts, while brutal, only are scratches in the surface. Since the decolonization period in the 1960’s the list of conflicts is so long, and the number of people killed so high that is beggars belief.
Yet most counties have exploding populations, resulting in abysmally low median ages (15 years in some cases) that the future is bound to hold even more of this.😢
Africans, at the bottom of every demographic scale. Every scale. Every time. Worldwide.
And no one on earth is in disbelief over this
Coming soon to Minnesota.
Also Africa is really really big, lots of countries lots of possibilities for war.
The equivalent of “4 Asian wars you’ve never heard of” 😂
@@realdreamerschangetheworld7470 exactly
the walking dead could have been based upon the realities of African daily life / wars
I've heard about all these wars and few more in Africa
Angolan civil war, loss of life mindboggling😢
Wonderful introduction video about African states tragedy situations which shadowing global superpowers competitiveness for natural resources captures...
Shadow wars by global super powers. I can never get over the fact that my government I pay taxes to has no problem giving weapons away then being SHOCKED when our weapons get used against us
Hmmm…Lotta guns here…I wonder where they got them?
Russia
Exactly 💯.... not forgetting that ammunition is very expensive so where do they get the money and the guns etc
Russia 😊
I've never understood why wars in Africa don't ever make the local news like other wars do where I'm from, Canada
Cause it doesnt affect Canada
"So many you can't keep track of."
Yup, but it doesn't help that the media refuses to cover any of them in the news because that would be bigotted or something.
So all of the media is racist? Or maybe, just maybe, the western media just got tired of repeating the same story over and over and over, with no end in sight. Even when some nation tries to help they are immediately labeled colonizers. So yeah let Africa take care of Africa.
I don’t think it’s the reason you think it is. Western media companies have never had issue with displaying poverty and conflict in African nations. Instead you must think, why isn’t the Myanmar civil war getting as much attention as say, Ukraine or Israel? Is it because the Burmese are some special “marginalized” group whose misdeeds need covering up? No. The world isn’t America. It’s simply that African (especially sub-saharan African) conflict isn’t as relevant to the general western public or their interests. As simple as that.
I mean the media doesn't give a shit about Africa . That's why these wars are uncovered.
Too many acronyms in these conflicts to understand what’s actually happening. If we named each faction after an NFL team, I’d have an easier time digesting these stories of African wars.
Angola? Somalia?
Do you remember the marches and protests held during these horrific conflicts?
No? Me neither because there weren't any. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Most western nations aren’t directly *sponsoring* or impacted by these conflicts. Also a factor.
What good would they do? The US government is directly financing Israel, so marches and protests against the war make logical sense. It's an attempt to apply political pressure to culpable parties. But what the hell would a protest in New York matter to an African dictator who's already an international parish?
@@Talisguy You have both answered my question perfectly - we don't care about international atrocity if it doesn't affect us directly. As I said, makes you think, doesn't it?
@@Talisguy Also, you have absolutely no idea whether it would have worked or not because it never happened.
Our 'humanity,' it seems, is selective.
The world seems to be getting more and more violent. I hope this trend does not spiral into WWIII. 🙏🏻🙏🏻☮️🌎🕊
You might want to check the dates on a couple of those
0:55 - Chapter 1 - The 2nd congo war
5:05 - Chapter 2 - The darfur conflict
9:00 - Chapter 3 - The central africa republic civil war
13:00 - Chapter 4 - The 1st liberian civil war
TIA this is Africa
It’s AFRICA
Why call out the US for doing nothing? Why is it the USA's responsibility to take care of the world?
They made it that Way stupid. Its been American policy since Nixon 😂
Because US is acting like they want it to be their responsibility?
It's called the Wilson doctrine and while I agree with you that we should stay out of other countries business we can not allow the weak to be killed we are the strongest in the world it would be like me seeing a child get beat I couldn't just walk away without trying to help
@@tobiastofthansen7104Nixon? You mean Wilson.
Because we in the US throw ourselves into situations with ease with deeply problematic Intentions if not out right maliciousness
Why should the US get involved, there are enough African countries who can do something
Don’t think anyone is inviting you to get involved
US gets involved in everything else no one asked them to yet here we are. Self elected world police are racist it would seem.
@@Sparkypark Uh, Simon dinged the US for not doing anything about the darfur genocide.
Wonder why some groups are incapable of fighting a war without rampant sexual violence. Wild.
It is both universal, and universally complexing
It happens in pretty much all wars. Look it up.
If you think that in any war there is no sexual assault on a mass scale you are greatly mistaken the Russian are raping Ukranians as we speak
@@__T.O.G. Happens, yes. Systematically, no
The reason we just don't hear about wars in Africa is because there's just been SO MANY. Africa has been ripping itself apart since "decolonization."
From my reading it seems there is ZERO forward planning on African governments. There is less infrastructure is Africa today than 60 years ago. There are objectively FAR more genocides and wars.
Also it is NOT America's responsibility to fix everyone else's problems. None of you b in the global community are entitled to access to the American taxpayer. We as a population are tired of constant overseas wars. We're tired of being taken advantage of by the global community and especially Europe. You guys need to pull your own weight. This is just one reason Europeans are looked at with scorn in America. You criticize when we help, then cry when we don't.
Thats the eurpean far left, same as yours.
Don't know what's wrong with these people, doing this to there own people
Worldwide
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War in Africa? I’m shocked, said no one.🙄
African conflicts get overlooked as they have no natural resources or wealth the we (the western rich countries) benefit from
The Congo one, that thing where there is a lot of aid at the borders but not getting to the people. Remind you of anything that's going on right now?
What happened to the happier light hearted OG Side Projects... oh right.... savagery and horror get more clicks. To be clear I'm not blaming Simon. He's running a business, has employees to pay and a family to support. Society is the problem.
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you want to kill commandant?
The information we get, and don’t get, is strictly controlled 🤨
Not true, I knew about them. Not a lot, but I did know. Of course, my grandma used to watch hours of news.
I have watched Most of Simon's work across all channels. Hundreds ,maybe thousands of vids. I know about Vessi's,Squarespace,and Sheath.TH-cams adblocker warMakes this format unbearable.They have my phone by the pubes but my laptop is off limits.I will miss the Fact Boi.Yes I have been unemployed for a bit admitedlly.Fah Q TH-cam
Could you please do an episode about colonial countries pulling out of Africa after pillaging, plundering and leaving them with no clue about governing their new countries??
Plenty of the colonies outside Africa managed OK despite the "pillaging and plundering."
@@taffwobbecause those countries were mostly one culture that shared the same values in Africa 1000s of tribes just got put together some of them hated each other so yeah it was bound to end up bad
Because that's not true,white South Africans built the most modern country in Africa and handed it over to black South Africans intact,in 30 years they have utterly ruined it...wake up my misguided white loather
This is a clickbait title mainly for the US audience right? Even in the UK where news on african conflicts is slim we knew/know about all of these. Granted some got very little coverage compared to other conflicts but Darfur was on the news daily for years.
Yep, these African wars were common knowledge in Europe and the worst thing about it was that European nations sat back and fuelled the wars by shipping weapons into the region and then begged the public for cash to help the kids.
Yawn 🥱
Disgusting.
Simon, you're British, you know full well that "buglarised" (or whatever the fuck Americans say instead of burgled) isn't a word.
Ized. And yes it is Mr wizard
Dear Simon, if you are already having Africa as a Topic, i might have a Question for another video about Africa. And my question is without any form of discrimination ment truly.
Question: I ask myself, why was there never a real technological or industrial development in Africa on it's own?
What i mean with that is, for example in Europe you have a chronological advancement over the centuries and millena in all aspect, like Military, Technology, Industrialisation, Art, philosophy, Agriculture and all the aspects of a modern civilisation. But in Africa it seems there were no or only little developments on it's own in this regards, and it's people kept beeing Tribesmen, hunters and collectors. It's feels for me like that all the changes that made Africa more or less, what it is today was brought by all the nations that colonised it.
And while the colonisation definitly put a halt to most of Africas indepentend developments, there was a long time before that until roundabout the middel Age.
So why wasn't there a simultaneous development to a for example African Medieval Age?
Again, this is ment in no discrimatory way, but in the purest way of curiosity about human history and the many different pathes it took depending on the continent we are looking at.
Although I would love a video on the technological history of Africa - I think you need to address some of your lack of knowledge more broadly first.
Africa has had a wealth of development and most of its people have not been tribesmen hunters and collectors. You've identified a symptom of the vaguaries of record-keeping and history being rewritten or unwritten by the victors. Ancient Egypt and Kush had a varied history of technology and development, as did Carthage. Mali was home to many institutions dedicated to education and enlightenment.
There is a credible case to be made that mathematics originated in Africa. The continent was a a hotbed for the development of metallurgy and glass production and you have them to thank for ironwork.
There was plenty of development.
Same thing in north America. Natives were literally living in the stone age when the colonials first arrived. They didn't even know what the wheel was !
@@Talisguyname some.
@@shioramenrabbityou need to differentiate between Sub-Saharan and North Africa before you start assigning advanced development so broadly.
Shit is so funny
As painful as it may be, Africans are going to do terrible things to one another because of tribalism and ignorance. Maybe the Rhodesians had it right.
Rhodesians were simply a different flavor of the same problem
I think Russia is calling you
The Rhodesians had absolutely nothing right.
@@kreiner1 you forgot to say RAAAAAAYYYYYYYYCCCCCCISSSSSTTTTT , little fella. 😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@kreiner1 What's Russia got to do with this
For all those poor starfishes, hope the future gets better
My, that was cheerful. Not...
1st like and comment! Last time I was this early African wars were in the news
Oh wait they never were
Nope, I'm first! 😊
wish the map had a correct spelling of Burundi
I've long asked myself, humanity has had longer to build a thriving civilization in Africa than anywhere else on the planet, yet Africa is almost universally a sh1thole, full of waring tribes, famine, ethnic tensions, violence, hatred, etc. You don't see this on ANY other continent on such a scale. I also ask myself why gehettos and majority black areas in the US and Europe quickly revert to looking like slums, full of violence. I then answer my question as there is always one single common factor...the color of the skin.
Every single part of this comment is somehow wrong, but I appreciate that you don't bother hiding behind dog whistles and just openly admit you're a racist. I wish more of you had the courage of their convictions, instead of hiding behind the tiniest veneer of plausible deniability while loudly thinking the hard r.
@@Talisguywhat exactly that he stated is untrue, little fella? Take your time, I'll wait.
Rhodesia and South Africa used to be alright, wonder what happened there?
Oh look kids, a nazi!
is that how you say “colonialism fucked africa up” in White Man
what a rich civilisation -lol
Your brain must be incredibly smooth. Almost glossy I would say, by the level of your comment.
Apologies if you are 12 years old.
lol…:
@@Sparkyparkwhy so butt hurt little fella? Did you get misgendered again? 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Beyond Savagery? It's no coincidence you use this to describe only wars in Africa. I'll be very interested to see you do a peace on the savages that provided the Africans with the weapons in the first place....
Yeah cause before that there was peace and nobody fought or used spears, axes and bows to kill...
And the fact that u are trying to make something racist is infuriating.
Go find your dad and let the adults talk
And they are AFRICANS. get it?
Maybe you should drop your tender snowflake, subjective feelings and check out some objective facts
They can be found on the FBI, CDC, ATF website statistics (where they break down crime by demographic)
There you will see the American African is 13% of our population but responsible for nearly 80% of violent crime
There you see the American African has a bastardization rate of nearly 80% as well
There you will see that there are far and away the leaders of child abortion, child, abuse, and child neglect
Bottom of every demographic scale , every time, worldwide😊
I guess it’s just a coincidence or racism
Piece. Not peace
You sound like mush mouth from fat Albert
Have you done a piece on Wagner Group? As I understand it, they’re involved with things all over the planet.
We are told colonisation is a bad thing, but you ask most African people what they would rather and you would be surprised.
After seeing so much war, corruption and hardship after regaining control of their power, they would rather go back to peace and prosperity when times were good and the place looked nice.
Rhodesia was such a lovely country where everybody pretty much lived in harmony and had a good life. Now look at it. Sad that we now think it is a bad thing, but looking back….was it?
Colonialism had its merits but let's not kid ourselves
Out of the 4 wars mentioned here 3 of them were an indirect result of western interference without understanding or caring about the consequences of their actions
Drawing arbitrary lines on a map with no interest in the tribes that were being split up or whether the people living in this new made up country actually like each other
Stoking distrust and resentment amongst enemies who were forced to share a country purely to maintain control
Putting a psychotic dictator in charge to ravage a nation for 3 decades only to leave a power vacuum after his death in a country sitting on about $24 trillion in untapped natural resources which everyone is interested in exploiting and are still exploiting to this day
Countries in Africa have their self inflicted problems like everywhere else but to imply that colonialism was an all positive is wholefully inaccurate
Why should we care about any of this?
For the same reason people care about any other wars anywhere else?
You don't have to, and I don't think anyone said you should, but there's no reason not to expand your knowledge of what's happened/is happening on your planet no?
Edit: Ah, nevermind. I gave you the benefit of the doubt of asking honestly but I saw a reply of yours that's pretty damn racist so nevermind.
@@__T.O.G. That's right, just call someone a racist and run away without a critical thought. Actual NPC.
@@DautFromX revision:
I didn't- I just said you said something racist. I just think you're a troll using rage-bait. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌
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Even then, "there was never an industrial revolution in Africa because Africans are incapable of building things" is a racist statement, and it's not illogical to infer you were racist from that right?
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The thing is, I didn't even do that...
@@DautFromX revision:
Uhh- no-
I just said you said something racist, I think you're a troll using rage-bait M8.
Even then, if I did if you say a racist statement ("there was never an industrial revolution in Africa because Africans are incapable of building things") without any reason for me to think you're not serious, inferring you're racist (a person with racist beliefs) isn't a big jump... And that's not what I did 😭
What if your country went to war and some one said that to you
Here in America, we’re not above this.
America is only a couple generations away from the horrors detailed in this video, if we don’t put a stop to the siege of our political system.
Remeber Lord of War with Nicolas Cage? Victor But is out again. Dealing weapons in Jemen.
What do you expect? lol!
Why lol? What do you expect?
Beyond the savagery of the the Caucasoid, rich.
for a guy who has spent years informing us on what clickbait and gaming the system, this is low. after 8 years... see ya