African War Terms and Definitions Charlie
Across
- 4. An organization that has no governmental influence
- 5. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
- 8. Citizens in Southeastern Nigeria
- 9. When Somalia became involved in a conflict with Ethiopia over a border region
- 11. Failed United Nations peacekeeping forces, the war came to end in 2003 because of this
- 12. A Task Force provided by the US to aid humanitarian relief in Somalia which failed and instead resulted in 2 years where fighting occured
- 13. Anti Imperialist leader of Congo since 1960
- 15. An extremist group established after the Somalian civil War which exploited control and interpretation of islamic law
- 19. A Liberation Front seeking independence in their region
- 20. A recent Conflict from 2020-2022 in Northernmost Ethiopia involving Ethiopian and Eritrean governments
- 22. One-Three Million people of Nigeria died to severe food shortages and famine
- 23. The person who sparked the Somali Civil War
- 25. One of the most long and devastating conflicts in modern African history, which affected many areas and had many causalities across East Africa
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- 1. President of Uganda 1971
- 2. Rebel group established in July 2009
- 3. Tanzanians and Ugandan rebels defeated a combined Ugandan Libyan-Palestinian force
- 6. Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered by Rwanda's Hutu majority in 1994 as an effect of the Civil War
- 7. Lead the LRA an Christian extremist organization
- 10. The leader of a repressive dictatorship in the Ethiopian Civil War
- 14. Jewels mined during a war to fund conflict
- 16. Uganda National Liberation Army abbrv.
- 17. Ethiopian Red Terror
- 18. A concert organized in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in African Countries
- 21. Led rebel forces to exile Mobutu and became the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo
- 24. Ruled Uganda as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal dictators in modern world history