Congo Civil War may refer to:
- In the Kingdom of Kongo:
- Kongo Civil War (1665–1709)
- In the Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville):
- Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)
- In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire):
- Congo Crisis (1960–1966), dating from independence to the unlikely rise of Joseph Mobutu
- First Congo War (1996–1997), which led to the overthrow of Mobutu by Laurent Kabila and his rebels
- Second Congo War (1998–2003), involved nine nations and led to ongoing low-level warfare despite an official peace and the first democratic elections in 2006
- Ituri conflict (1999–2007), a subconflict of the Second Congo War
- Kivu conflict (2004–present), a subconflict of the Second Congo War
- Dongo conflict (2009–present), a subconflict of the Second Congo War
Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil and/or war:
“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)