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