African Wars Zahra
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- 5. 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
- 6. Agreement Ended the war in 2003
- 8. Refer to diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fund conflict
- 9. Leader of the National Resistance Army
- 11. Lead the declaration of independence by the Eastern Region of Biafra
- 14. Leader of the LRA
- 16. The rise of the Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
- 20. People of southeastern Nigeria, predominantly represented by the breakaway state of Biafra, and the Nigerian federal government
- 21. An extremist group that exploited the vacuum of governance to establish control over parts of the country and impose their harsh interpretation of Islamic law
- 22. Ruled the Congo (which he had renamed Zaire in 1971) as a one-party state. His government was intensely anti-imperialist. Mobutu also crafted many international alliances to support his power
- 23. Unified Task Force
- 24. One of the most notable responses to the famine
- 25. The origins of the war can be traced back to the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of
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- 1. One of the most recent examples of challenges to peace and stability in Ethiopia occurred with the
- 2. Linda Nchi Kenyan troops entered southern Somalia to fight al-Shabaab and establish a buffer zone inside Somalia
- 3. Syndrome Clinton administration's decision not to intervene in the Rwandan genocide
- 4. Was the President of Uganda but in 1971 he was overthrown in a coup by parts of the Uganda Army which put General Idi Amin in power
- 7. Saw 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
- 10. Imposed by the Nigerian government resulted in severe food shortages and famine in Biafra
- 12. Reble group who challenges the Derg regime E
- 13. Uganda National Liberation Army
- 15. Tanzania President supported several opposition factions, including Obote's loyalists in exile
- 17. Biafrans suffering became a popular cause in foreign countries, enabling a significant rise in the funding of international non-governmental organization
- 18. The Derg repressed rebles with military campaigns and ______
- 19. An ethnic group found mostly in northern Nigeria, largely dominated the Nigerian federal government