African Wars Crossword Emmett Nilsson

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