African Wars Crossword - Taylor

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Across
  1. 6. provided critical medical assistance to civilians
  2. 8. organized to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
  3. 9. one of the most devastating and long conflicts in modern African history
  4. 11. ethnic group found mostly in northern Nigeria
  5. 12. created by the UN Security Council to provide humanitarian relief
  6. 13. overran the country and forced Mobutu into exile
  7. 15. diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fun conflict
  8. 16. led the LRA
  9. 18. Kenyan troops entered southern Somalia to fight al-Shabaa
  10. 20. war with Ethiopia over Ogaden (Disputed border region)
  11. 21. ran against Obote in the post-war election
  12. 23. 500,000-800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered
  13. 24. conflict that saw the TPLF fighting against the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments
  14. 25. The Derg dissolved itself in 1987, establishing ________
Down
  1. 1. reigned since the 1960s, ruled the Congo as a one-party state
  2. 2. people of southeastern Nigeria
  3. 3. Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
  4. 4. combination of drought, crop failure, and the disruption of food distribution due to the conflict
  5. 5. an extremist group that exploited the vacuum of governance
  6. 7. the leader of Libya and an ally of Amin
  7. 10. refused to recognize Biafra's secession
  8. 14. militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group
  9. 17. One of the most infamous perpetrators of violence in Uganda
  10. 19. ruled Uganda as a military dictator, one of the most brutal in modern history
  11. 22. a risk-averse approach to intervention in civil conflicts