African Wars Crossword Lucy

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Across
  1. 1. An armed uprising against Obote's government in the West Nile region of Uganda in 1980
  2. 4. Tigray people's liberation front
  3. 6. A war also known as the Great War of Africa
  4. 9. A humanitarian organization that provides medical assistance to civilians in war-torn regions
  5. 13. Ethiopian red terror using scorched-earth tactics, including forced resettlement, mass executions, and chemical weapons against civilians
  6. 14. The US led task force that lasted for two years and involved heavy fighting with local militias in Somalia
  7. 17. An ethnic group found mostly in Northern Nigeria
  8. 18. The leader of Libya and ally Idi Amin
  9. 19. The slaughter of between 500,000 to 800,000 people of the Tutsi ethnic group by the Hutu majority in 1994
  10. 20. A Congolese rebel leader who replaced Mobutu as leader of the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo
  11. 22. An independence struggle rooted in the decline of Western imperialism that began in 1961 and would last until 1991
  12. 24. 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
  13. 25. A war between Somalia and Ethiopia over a disputed border region
Down
  1. 2. A term referring to diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fund conflict
  2. 3. The president of Uganda from 1962-1971
  3. 5. The largest battle of the Uganda-Tanzania war where the Tanzanians and Ugandan rebels defeated a combined Ugandan-Libyan-Palestinian forces
  4. 7. An ethnic group from Southeastern Nigeria
  5. 8. American reluctance to increase its involvement in Somalia and other regions
  6. 10. The treaty that ended the Second Congo War
  7. 11. A civil war and international military conflict nicknamed Africa's Frist World War
  8. 12. A militant islamist and jihadist rebel group in Nigeria
  9. 15. A Ugandan military dictator who is considered to be one of the most brutal dictators in modern world history
  10. 16. Eritrean people's liberation front
  11. 21. A concert organized in 1985 with some of the biggest music celebrities to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia and other African countries
  12. 23. International non-governmental organizations