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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict= Gulf of Guinea Crisis
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|image=GG Crisis Panorama.png
|image_size=300
|caption=Clockwise from top: The tanker SS ''Atlantik Oba'' after being struck by Formosan bombers; a Formosan missile boat photographed off Sanyan; a Formosan Tu-22A bomber on an attack run.
|date= 4 November – 21 November 1976
|place= {{W|Gulf of Guinea}}
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|territory=
|result=[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] mediation; {{W|Status quo ante bellum}}; [[Bissau Agreement]]
|combatant1={{flag|Formosa|FRELIFO}}<br>'''Support:'''<br>{{flag|Argentina}} (alleged)
|combatant2= {{flag|Sanyan}}<br>'''Support:'''<br>{{flag|Balisca}}
*[[Internationalist Brigades]]
{{flag|Philippines}}
|commander1= {{flagicon|Formosa|FRELIFO}} [[Rodrigo Nkumu Saiz]]
|commander2={{flagicon|Sanyan}} [[Fumnanya Yobachukwu]]<br>{{flagicon|Balisca}} [[Mário Sá Justino]]
|strength1= Unknown
|strength2= Unknown
|units1=
|units2=
|casualties1={{flagicon|Formosa|FRELIFO}} Approx. 100 killed<br>1 missile boat<br>5 motor launches<br>2 landing ships<br>7 aircraft
|casualties2={{flagicon|Sanyan}} 23 killed <br>2 oil tankers<br>{{flagicon|Balisca}} 18 killed<br>3 aircraft (2 on ground, 1 in air)
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The '''Gulf of Guinea Crisis''', sometimes called the '''Formosan-Sanyanian War''', was a short-lived conflict between [[Formosa]] and [[Sanyan]] in the [[w:Gulf of Guinea|Gulf of Guinea]]. The war, which took place in November 1976, saw Formosa unsuccessfully attempt to curtail Sanyanian oil-drilling and shipping interests in the Gulf. Most of the fighting took place in small-scale sea and air engagements until the conflict was halted through mediation by the [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]]. The subsequent [[Bissau Agreement]] delineated clear economic boundaries in the Guinean oil-drilling regions.

The Crisis occurred against the backdrop of the [[South Atlantic War]] and was timed by Formosan war planners to coincide with Sanyanian ally [[Balisca]] being engaged against [[Argentina]] and unable to enter the war in Africa.

[[Category:Conflicts involving Formosa]][[Category:Sanyan]]
[[Category:Balisca]]