African Wars Crossword Emmett Nilsson
Across
- 3. Somalian invasion over a disputed border region (Ogaden)
- 5. A humanitarian organization which gives medical aid throughout the world
- 7. Overran the country and forced Mobutu into exile
- 8. An operation from Kenya to fight Al-Shabaab
- 9. A concert organized in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia and other African countries. The event brought together some of the biggest names in music
- 12. Diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fund conflict
- 15. A rebellion in Nigeria in July of 2009
- 18. An Islamic extremist group in Somalia
- 19. War Biafran War
- 20. When Americans get attacked and they end up doing nothing about the conflict, seen during the Rwandan genocide
- 21. The leader of the Igbo independence movement
- 23. One of the most significant and tumultuous periods in Ethiopia's history, reshaping its political landscape and social make up
- 24. A group of people from Southeastern Nigeria
- 25. Opposition group that claimed the elections were rigged
Down
- 1. The President of Uganda who was overthrown
- 2. Museveni Leader of the NRA who ran against Obote in the post-war election and claimed that he had been cheated
- 4. A military dictator who ruled Uganda, often known as one of the most brutal dictators of all time
- 6. Nicknamed Africa's First World War, was a civil war and international military conflict which took place mostly in Zaire
- 10. WarofIndependence An independence struggle rooted in the decline of Western imperialism that began in 1961 and would last until 1991
- 11. Somali forces shot down American vehicles, causing them to crash in deep enemy territory
- 13. Consequence of the civil war due to drought, crop failure, and the disruption of food distribution due to the conflict
- 14. Between 500,000 to 800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered by Rwanda's Hutu majority in 1994
- 16. Reigned since the 1960s, ruled the Congo as a one-party state
- 17. The largest battle of the war in the Uganda-Tanzania War
- 22. A US led task force which fought militia groups in Somalia