Across
- 2. Islamic extremist group in Somalia
- 3. President of Tanzania from 1964-1985
- 5. Authoritarian leader of Somalia whose overthrow created a power vacuum
- 8. May have caused the US not to intervene during the Rwandan Genocide
- 9. Opposition group led by Ugandan exiles
- 12. Concert organized to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
- 13. Term for jewels mined to help fund war in the Congo
- 15. Border region between Ethiopia and Somalia
- 18. Unpopular president of Uganda that was overthrown by the army in 1971
- 21. Emperor whose rule raised ethnic and class divisions within Ethiopia
- 22. "Africa’s first world war"
- 23. Ethiopian Red Terror, in Amharic
- 24. Majority Igbo state that tried to succeed from Nigeria
Down
- 1. Leader of Nigeria during the civil war
- 4. Organization that claimed the elections that put Milton Obote back in power were rigged
- 6. Event in 1994 where between 5-8 hundred thousand Tutsi killed by the Hutu majority
- 7. Ethiopian group that challenged the authority of the Derg
- 10. Event during Nigerian civil war that killed 1-3 million people in Biafra
- 11. African dictator known as one of the most brutal in modern history
- 14. Leader of Biafra's independence movement
- 16. Congolese dictator who took power after Patrice Lumumba
- 17. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
- 19. Ethnic group from northern Nigeria
- 20. UN created task force to provide aid and stabilize Somalia