African Wars - Maddie Woods

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Across
  1. 2. non-governmental organizations
  2. 4. The Uganda National Liberation Army- The accompanying military wing to the UNLF.
  3. 5. The agreement that ended the Second Congo War.
  4. 7. Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
  5. 10. Who lead the Nigerian government during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970
  6. 12. Somalia war of 1977–1978
  7. 14. Diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fund conflict.
  8. 16. 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 in 1960-1965.
  9. 17. A concert organized in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia and other African countries.
  10. 22. 500,000 to 800,000 people of the Tutsi minority ethnic group slaughtered by Rwanda's Hutu majority in 1994.
  11. 23. An extremist group which took advantage of the power vacuum in the country to take control of regions and implement extreme Islamic laws.
  12. 24. Tigray People's Liberation Front
  13. 25. People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Down
  1. 1. Leader of the NRA.
  2. 3. Eritrean People's Liberation Front
  3. 6. An operation created by the UN security council to create peace in Somalia led by a US task force who fought against militia groups there for two years.
  4. 8. people who reside in southeastern Nigeria
  5. 9. Opposition groups to President of Uganda Milton Obote who claimed the election was rigged. These groups united under the rule of Yoweri Museveni.
  6. 11. What event resulted in severe food shortages and famine in Biafra
  7. 13. Leader of the LRA and he claimed he was the spokesperson of God and a spiritual medium.
  8. 15. An authoritarian regime that can be traced to the start of the Somali Civil War. The regime is characterized by abuse of human rights, authoritarian rule, and oppression of different clans and regions.
  9. 18. The Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship during the Ethiopian Civil War of 1974-1991
  10. 19. Somalia _____.
  11. 20. His government was intensely anti-imperialist with an ideology that he claimed was "neither left nor right, nor even center”. He used his power to gain a massive personal fortune through exploitation and corruption and built up a cult of personality around his own image as a leader.
  12. 21. The Uganda National Liberation Front- One of the most powerful anti-Amin groups, a political group formed by exiled Ugandans opposed to the rule of military dictator Idi Amin.