title: List of wars involving Ghana
text: # List of wars involving Ghana
  
  This article is a list of military conflicts involving Ghana and includes conflicts such as coups.
  
  ## Wars
  
  | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Congo Crisis (1960-1964) | ONUC  Ghana Others | Katanga ANC Port Francqui incident | Victory Debellation of the State of Katanga |
  | Lebanese Civil War and South Lebanon conflict (1978–present) | UNIFIL Ghana Others | South Lebanon Army Israel Hezbollah Amal PFLP-GC | Ongoing |
  | First Liberian Civil War (1990-1997) Master Sergeant Thomas A. Nelson (right) of the 3rd US Army Special Forces Group inspects Ghanaian troops of ECOMOG at Roberts International Airport located outside of Monrovia, Liberia | ECOMOG  Ghana Others | NPFL | Defeat NPFL victory |
  | Rwandan Civil War (1993-1994) | UNAMIR  Ghana Others | Rwanda | Defeat Rwanda Genocide Great Lakes refugee crisis |
  | Sierra Leone Civil War (1997-2002) | ECOMOG & UNAMSIL  Ghana Others Sierra Leone Kamajors CDF  United Kingdom Guinea | RUF AFRC West Side Boys Liberia NPFL | Victory |
  | First Ivorian Civil War (2003-2007) | ECOMOG  Ghana Others  France | Ivory Coast COJEP FNCI Liberia | Tentative peace agreement Second Ivorian Civil War |
  | Second Ivorian Civil War (2010-2011) | UNOCI  Ghana Others FNCI RDR France Ukraine | Military of Ivory Coast COJEP FPI | Victory Gbagbo captured |
  | Mali War (2013-2017) | MINUSMA  Ghana Others Government of Mali France | MNLA Al-Qaeda Boko Haram  Islamic State | Withdrawal Ghana withdraws troops in 2017 due to security concerns |
  | ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia (2017) | ECOMOG  Ghana Others | Pro-Jammeh forces | Ongoing |
  | Western Togoland Rebellion (2020) | Ghana | Western Togoland Restoration Front | Ongoing |
  
  ## Violent coups and coup attempts
  
  | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Operation Cold Chop (1966) | Ghana (Nkrumah government) | National Liberation Council Alleged Support: United States United Kingdom | NLC Victory Kwame Nkrumah deposed |
  | Operation Guitar Boy (1967) | Ghana (NLC) | Coup plotters | NLC Victory Coup failure |
  | June 4th coup d'état (1979) | Ghana (Supreme Military Council) | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council | AFRC Victory Colonel I.K. Acheampong deposed and executed |
  | Nobistor affair (1985) | Ghana (Provisional National Defence Council) | Supporters of Godfrey Osei United States mercenaries | PNDC Victory Coup plot failed Mercenaries detained in Brazil |
  