Major conflict1888 – 1890 · 2 years

Abushiri Revolt

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Bagamoyo · Pangani · Tanga · Sadani

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Swahili-Arab planter Abushiri ibn Salim led a coastal revolt against the German East Africa Company, suppressed by Hermann von Wissmann's mixed Sudanese-Zulu force.

Belligerents4

German Empire
Sultanate of Zanzibar
Swahili coast
Swahili coastal alliance

ON THE MAPGerman EmpireSultanate of Zanzibar

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Bagamoyo1889
Battle of Pangani1889

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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