Across
- 2. American reluctance to increase involvement in civil conflict due to the Battle of Mogadishu
- 4. leader of violent Christian extremist organization LRA
- 9. 2020-2022 conflict between the TPLF and the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments
- 10. clash between Somali militia and American forces
- 13. Islamic jihadist group that launched an armed rebellion against the Nigerian government
- 15. organizations providing humanitarian aid for hunger in Biafra
- 16. Nigerian ethnic group formerly represented by Biafra
- 20. leader of the NRA and political opponent of Obote
- 21. known as African World War, military conflict within Zaire
- 22. mass killing of Tutsi minority ethnic group by Rwanda's Hutu majority
- 24. task force led by U.S. to provide humanitarian relief for Somalia
- 25. 1985 concert in which famous musicians raised funds for famine relief in African countries
- 26. war between Somalia and Ethiopia over a disputed border region
Down
- 1. Diamonds mined in war zones and sold to fund conflict
- 3. extremist group imposing their harsh interpretation of Islamic law in Somalia
- 5. Ethiopian rebel group challenging the authority of the Derg regime
- 6. Corrupt Ethiopian dictator who failed to address class divisions, resulting in civil war
- 7. authoritarian regime in Somalia, origin of Somali Civil War
- 8. former Nigerian leader overthrown to restore federal authority
- 11. Lumumba overthrown, Mobutu rises to power as a dictator
- 12. an ongoing conflict present from 1991 today, devastating the Horn of Africa
- 14. blockade put in place by the Nigerian government, resulting in famine and death
- 17. The largest battle of the Uganda-Tanzania War taking place on March 1979
- 18. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship in Ethiopia
- 19. A brutal Ugandan military dictator who abused human rights
- 23. A peace agreement created in 2003 to end the Second Congo War