Clara Doyle's African Wars Crossword

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  1. 3. An Islamic extremist group created in Somalia during the Somali Civil War
  2. 4. An armed uprising against Obote’s government in 1980
  3. 5. Also known as the Great War of Africa, lots of complex alliances, very similar to the First Congo War
  4. 9. Started in 1991 and continues today, one of the lengthiest and devestating conflicts in modern African history
  5. 10. One of the most infamous perpetrators of violence in Uganda today, a Christian extremist group
  6. 11. A concert in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethipoia and other African countries
  7. 15. the colonel who led the creation of the declaration of independence by the Eastern region of Biafra.
  8. 17. A multi-part conflict that led to the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie’s regime.
  9. 19. 500,000 to 800,000 of the minority Tutsi people murdered by the majority Hutu people as an effect of the Rwandan Civil War
  10. 20. Diamonds mined in a war zone and used to fund conflict
  11. 21. A conflict with Somalia over the disputed Ogaden border region
  12. 22. A UN-US-led task force to help Somalia and provide humantarian aid
  13. 25. The fear of the US of getting re-involved in an African conflict because of what happened in Somalia
Down
  1. 1. The leader of an authoritarian regime in Somalia
  2. 2. Also nicknamed Africa’s first world war, the first major conflict in the DRC that spilled over into neighboring countries
  3. 6. The agreement signed in 2003 that officially ended the Second Congo War
  4. 7. Also known as the Biafran War, a conflict that arose from political, economic, ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions resulting in Britian’s colonization of Nigeria.
  5. 8. A marxist-leninist dictatorship in Ethiopia
  6. 12. The President of Uganda who was overthrown in a 1971 coup.
  7. 13. A military jihadist group based in Nigeria
  8. 14. A Ugandan general who came into power following the fall of Obote, ruled as a dictator and considered one of the most brutal in recent world history.
  9. 16. A blockade imposed by the Nigerian government that resulted in widespread food shortages and famine, lead to the deaths of approximately 3 million people.
  10. 18. Uganda National Liberation Front
  11. 23. A group of people from southeastern Nigeria represented by the breakaway state of Biafra.
  12. 24. The war TPLF fought against the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments from 2002-2022