African Wars Crossword - Caroline

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Across
  1. 2. Julius_____: President of Tanzania, supported opposition factors against Amin
  2. 3. _______Syndrome: American reluctance to increase its involvement in Somalia and other regions
  3. 5. where was the Ogaden War of 1977–1978
  4. 8. The Tigray’s People’s Liberation Front, a rebel group that challenged the authority of the Derg Regime.
  5. 9. Militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group that started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria in 2009
  6. 13. The end of the Second Congo War of 1998-2003
  7. 15. the National Resistance Army for short.
  8. 16. The US led Unified Task Force created in 1992 by the United Nations Security Council to provide humanitarian relief and restore order in Somalia
  9. 17. Concert organized in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia and other African countries. Many big-name artists came to help raise millions of dollars for humanitarian efforts.
  10. 19. Blockade of______: caused widespread food shortages and famine. 1-3 million people died (due to starvation/disease)
  11. 22. between 500,000 to 800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered
  12. 24. Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, rebel group that challenged the authority of the Derg regime.
  13. 25. diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fun conflict
Down
  1. 1. military wing that accompanied the UNLF
  2. 4. An ethnic group located in southeastern Nigeria, represented by the breakaway state of Biafra. Christian.
  3. 6. People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, was created by the Derg in an attempt to maintain power. The Derg was renamed the Workers’ Party of Ethiopia. Was eventually defeated in 1991
  4. 7. extremist group with harsh interpretation of Islamic law
  5. 10. An ethnic group found primarily in northern Nigeria. Muslim.
  6. 11. Joseph_____: Leader of the lords resistance army
  7. 12. their regime was characterized by authoritarian rule, human rights abuses, and the oppression of certain clans and regions.
  8. 14. corrupt regime leader of Zaire
  9. 18. ______Amin: General of the Uganda Army that was put into power after the coup in 1971. Persecuted against certain ethnic groups and political dissidents, supported terrorists and insurgents worldwide
  10. 20. anti-Amin group that was formed by exiled Ugandans
  11. 21. Marxist Leninist military dictatorship that started in Ethiopia after the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie’s regime.
  12. 23. Non-governmental organizations. International ones got funded more after people across the world saw the suffering going on in Biafra