| African Bush War | |||||||||
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| Part of the First Cold War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 United African Republics
Supported by: Former: |
 Rhodesian-African Front Afrikaner Bevrydingsleër Front Algérie Française Aliança Africana Portuguesa
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| Commanders | |||||||||
Kwame Nkrumah Patrice Lumumba Joshua Nkomo † Gamal Nasser (1949-1959) Eduardo Mondlane (1949-1953) Mourad Didouche † (1949-1954)
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Peter Walls † Ian Smith Raoul Salan António dos Santos †
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 13,240 dead 11,200+ wounded or captured Total: 24,440+ |
17,600+ dead 20,000+ wounded or captured Total:37,600+ | ||||||||
The African Bush War was a group of civil conflicts taking place between July 1949 and April 1961 throughout the newly-established United African Republic, and within lands that would become part of the country during the final months of the African Wars of Independence. It was fought between the government of the United African Republic and various White guerrilla groups, most notably the Rhodesian-African Front, the Afrikaner Liberation Army, the French Algeria Front, and the Portuguese African Coalition.
The conflict would lead to the temporary restriction of rights for White Europeans living in parts of the UAR (the Karohano system), as well as the start of the Great Transfer, the mass movement of Whites in the UAR moving to Europe or North America and of Africans or Arabs living in Europe moving to the UAR.