Sahel conflicts

Target entity: Sahel conflicts
Context triple: [Trans-Saharan Africa, associatedWith, Sahel conflicts]

• A. Horn of Africa conflicts
  Horn of Africa conflicts refers to the overlapping civil wars, insurgencies, and interstate tensions in countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea that have made the region one of the most unstable and militarized in the world.
• B. Darfur conflict
  The Darfur conflict is a protracted armed struggle in western Sudan marked by mass atrocities, displacement, and accusations of genocide against government-backed militias targeting non-Arab populations.
• C. Casamance conflict
  The Casamance conflict is a long-running low-intensity separatist insurgency in southern Senegal, where rebels have sought independence from the central government since the early 1980s.
• D. Chadian–Libyan conflict
  The Chadian–Libyan conflict was a series of armed confrontations from the 1970s to the late 1980s in which Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi, intervened militarily in Chad over territorial disputes and regional influence, culminating in Libya’s defeat and withdrawal.
• E. South Sudanese Civil War
  The South Sudanese Civil War was a brutal internal conflict that erupted in 2013 between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and those aligned with former Vice President Riek Machar, causing massive displacement, ethnic violence, and humanitarian crisis in the world’s newest country.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Sahel conflicts
Target entity description: Sahel conflicts are a series of overlapping armed struggles in the Sahel region of Africa involving jihadist insurgencies, communal violence, and state fragility that have created one of the world’s most severe humanitarian and security crises.

• A. Horn of Africa conflicts
  Horn of Africa conflicts refers to the overlapping civil wars, insurgencies, and interstate tensions in countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea that have made the region one of the most unstable and militarized in the world.
• B. Darfur conflict
  The Darfur conflict is a protracted armed struggle in western Sudan marked by mass atrocities, displacement, and accusations of genocide against government-backed militias targeting non-Arab populations.
• C. Casamance conflict
  The Casamance conflict is a long-running low-intensity separatist insurgency in southern Senegal, where rebels have sought independence from the central government since the early 1980s.
• D. Chadian–Libyan conflict
  The Chadian–Libyan conflict was a series of armed confrontations from the 1970s to the late 1980s in which Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi, intervened militarily in Chad over territorial disputes and regional influence, culminating in Libya’s defeat and withdrawal.
• E. South Sudanese Civil War
  The South Sudanese Civil War was a brutal internal conflict that erupted in 2013 between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and those aligned with former Vice President Riek Machar, causing massive displacement, ethnic violence, and humanitarian crisis in the world’s newest country.
• F. None of above. chosen