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| 1951 |
| | | Libya wins independence from Italy, as a kingdom with Idris I as head of state | |
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| 1952 |
| | | A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Ahmed Ben Bella forms the Front de Libération National (FLN) to fight for Algerian independence | |
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| 1954 |
| | | A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Gamal Abd al-Nasser mounts another coup, this time against his colleague Mohammed Neguib, to make himself president of Egypt | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| 1955 |
| | | An armed uprising in Morocco persuades France to accept the principle of independence for the colony | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister | |
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