2003

Events

 * February 23 - Beginning of the Darfur Genocide.
 * March 20 - The United States invades Iraq to overthrow the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein, beginning the Iraq War.
 * July 18 - End of the Second Congo War.
 * August 11 - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia.

Deaths

 * July 22 - Uday & Qusay Hussein
 * August 16 - Idi Amin Dada