African Wars Crossword Cindy

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Across
  1. 2. Somali Civil War One of the most long and devastating conflicts in modern African history, which affected many areas of politics, economics and the social aspect of Africa with extreme casualties across Samalia and East Africa.
  2. 3. Lead the LRA an Christian extremist organization
  3. 4. to refer to diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fun conflict
  4. 8. Second Congo War of 1998-2003 Kabila's unstable government subsequently came into conflict with his allie paving the way for the Great War of Africa, was characterized by a complex web of alliances involving various Congolese factions, neighboring countries, and rebel groups vying for control over territory and resources.
  5. 11. Eritrean People's Liberation Front seeking independence for their respective region
  6. 13. people of southeastern Nigeria
  7. 16. President of Uganda
  8. 18. Tigray People's Liberation Front seeking independence for their respective region
  9. 19. Julius Nyerere declared war and ordered his troops to invade Uganda in response. Nyerere also armed and directed Ugandan rebels loyal to Obote and other anti-Amin leaders including Yoweri Museveni
  10. 20. President Julius Nyerer
  11. 21. non-governmental organizations
  12. 22. Barre The original spark of the Somali civil war, an authoritarian leader who abused human rights, oppressed the regions and came to power in 1969 with totalitarian control.
  13. 25. Led rebel forces to exile Mobutu and became the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo
  14. 26. One of the most infamous perpetrators of violence in Uganda and the African Great Lakes region
  15. 27. deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces, failed to bring lasting stability to the region.
Down
  1. 1. The overthrow of Patrice Lumumba shortly after independence and the rise to power of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as a dictator following a series of civil wars and Cold War proxy conflicts
  2. 5. a leader in the Eastern Region of Biafra
  3. 6. Gaddafi the leader of Libya and an ally of Amin
  4. 7. led a repressive dictatorship as a colonel.
  5. 9. dictatorial rule, characterized by repression, corruption, and economic mismanagement, heightened existing ethnic and class divisions within Ethiopian society.
  6. 10. apart of the Nigerian government
  7. 12. that started in July of 2009
  8. 14. an armed uprising against Obote's government in the West Nile region of Uganda in 1980
  9. 15. Reigned over Congo since the 1960s- intensely anti-imperialism
  10. 17. Genocide between 500,000 to 800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered by Rwanda's Hutu majority in 1994 as an effect of the Rwandan Civil War
  11. 23. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
  12. 24. ethnic group found mostly in northern Nigeria