20th-century mass murders in Africa

1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in which 800,000 were killed

1940s rebellion in Madagascar

East African genocide in the 1980s

historical event of Guinea-Bissau

1970 uprising in the Spanish-ruled Western Sahara

massacre of French West African troops by French forces

1965 coup d'état attempt in Burundi

riot in Tunisia

The ' (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the (Killings'), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. Conservative estimates place the death toll of the event between 100,000 and 150,000 killed, while some estimates of the death toll go as high as 300,000.

1964 genocide of the Arab community in Zanzibar

1993 killings of mostly Tutsis in Burundi