Across
- 3. An ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
- 4. A political and military organization that played a role in overthrowing the Derg
- 7. Radical Islamic group that took power in Somalia in a power vacuum
- 9. A rebel group that fought for Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
- 13. A terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria trying to establish an Islamic state
- 15. The last emperor of Ethiopia, overthrown in 1974
- 17. A political group formed by exiled Ugandans opposed to dictator Idi Amin
- 20. A bloody, international conflict that has global significance, occurring in Somalia
- 21. 3 US helicopters were shot down by Somali rebels, and the fight to save the survivors afterword
- 23. Authoritarian Somali leader
- 24. Military wing, Uganda National Liberation Army
- 25. The slaughter of people perceived to be of the Tutsi class in Rwanda
Down
- 1. Somalian war with Ethiopia over a border, that Somalia lost
- 2. The fear of influencing African affairs after the atrocities that happened in the Somali Civil War
- 5. The leader of the Derg and later the President of Ethiopia
- 6. The Nigerian military leader who led the federal forces during the Nigerian Civil War
- 8. A military and economic blockade by the Nigerian government on Biafra
- 10. A conflict from 1961 to 1991 that led to Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia
- 11. US created humanitarian relief group for Somalian citizens during the civil war
- 12. A Marxist military that ruled Ethiopia after overthrowing Emperor Haile Selassie
- 14. The military leader of the secessionist Republic of Biafra
- 16. The official end to the Second Congo War in 2003
- 18. A poltical campaign and mass killings carried out by the Derg
- 19. An ethnic group in northern Nigeria
- 22. A Kenyan offensive to create a buffer zone between Kenya and Al-Shabaab