Across
- 1. The overthrow of Patrice Lumumba and the new corrupt regime of Joseph-Desire Mobutu as dictator
- 7. A rebel group challenging the authority of the Derg regime for independence for their respective region.
- 9. When the Hutu Rwandan majority killed 500,000 – 800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group.
- 11. One of the longest and most devastating conflicts in modern African history that originated with the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of Siad Barre.
- 14. Authoritarian Somali leader who rose to power in a coup in 1969 and who’s rule was characterized by human rights abuses and oppression of specific clans and regions.
- 16. President of Uganda, overthrown in a coup in 1971 by the Uganda Army
- 17. A concert to raise money to end the famine in Ethiopia.
- 18. ganda National Liberation Army, the military wing for the UNLF
- 19. Ethiopia won the conflict over a disputed border region with Somalia.
- 20. Leader in the Nigerian government. He refused to recognize Biafra as an independent and separate homeland.
Down
- 2. Also known as the Biafran War, which was started because of political, economic, ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions
- 3. Leader of the NRA.
- 4. The United Nations Security Council created the operation in Somalia to provide humanitarian relief and restore order
- 5. People of Nothern Nigera, an ethnic group that dominated the Nigerian federal government.
- 6. The document ending the Second Congo War
- 8. A Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship established in Ethiopia after the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie.
- 10. Uganda National Liberation Front, a powerful anti-Amin group.
- 12. An extremist group which imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
- 13. People of southeastern Nigera, an ethnic group who broke away from the state of Biafra. Largely politically marginalized,
- 15. Diamonds that were mined, smuggled, and sold during the war in the Congo