African War Crossword Will Pfaffenroth

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Across
  1. 2. A war the Somalia lost against Ethiopia over the Ogaden region that provoked a coup against Barre.
  2. 3. Diamonds sold during conflicts to fund said conflicts
  3. 4. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
  4. 5. Uganda National Liberation Front
  5. 9. An operation by Kenyan troops to fight against Al-Shabaab and create a buffer zone in Somalia.
  6. 10. Eritrean People’s Liberation Front
  7. 14. An ethnic group in Northern Nigeria.
  8. 16. Uganda National Liberation Army
  9. 18. A militant Islamist and Jihadist rebel group
  10. 19. Leader of the NRA
  11. 20. His dictatorial rule, characterized by repression, corruption, and economic mismanagement, heightened existing ethnic and class divisions within Ethiopian society
  12. 23. A blockade that instated hunger and famine in the biafra region
  13. 24. stands as one of the most significant and tumultuous periods in Ethiopia's history, reshaping its political landscape and social make up.
  14. 25. An extremist group which took control over parts of Somalia where it imposes its islamic law.
Down
  1. 1. The genoiced of Tutsis in Rwanda following the Rwandan civil war.
  2. 6. A US led task force whose goal was the to provide aid and attempt to restore order in Somalia and fought with local Somali militias.
  3. 7. the leader of Libya and an ally of Amin, dispatched several thousand Libyan troops to Uganda to assist the Uganda Army.
  4. 8. Tigay People’s Liberation Front
  5. 11. International Non-governmental Organizations
  6. 12. The authoritarian ruler of Somalia whose overthrow created a vacuum in Somalia and triggered the war
  7. 13. The next leader of the Congo after he exiled Mobutu
  8. 15. An ethnic group in Southern Nigeria represented by the breakaway state of Biafra
  9. 17. the first major civil war in the Congo that eventually spilled out into surrounding countries.
  10. 21. the dictator of the Congo in the late 1900s
  11. 22. After Idi Amin was overthrown in 1979 following the Uganda-Tanzania War, elections saw the previous President of Uganda Milton Obote return to power in a UNLA-ruled government. Several opposition groups claimed the elections were rigged, and united as the National Resistance Army