Across
- 3. An Islamic extremist group created in Somalia during the Somali Civil War
- 4. An armed uprising against Obote’s government in 1980
- 5. Also known as the Great War of Africa, lots of complex alliances, very similar to the First Congo War
- 9. Started in 1991 and continues today, one of the lengthiest and devestating conflicts in modern African history
- 10. One of the most infamous perpetrators of violence in Uganda today, a Christian extremist group
- 11. A concert in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethipoia and other African countries
- 15. the colonel who led the creation of the declaration of independence by the Eastern region of Biafra.
- 17. A multi-part conflict that led to the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie’s regime.
- 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
- 20. Diamonds mined in a war zone and used to fund conflict
- 21. A conflict with Somalia over the disputed Ogaden border region
- 22. A UN-US-led task force to help Somalia and provide humantarian aid
- 25. The fear of the US of getting re-involved in an African conflict because of what happened in Somalia
Down
- 1. The leader of an authoritarian regime in Somalia
- 2. Also nicknamed Africa’s first world war, the first major conflict in the DRC that spilled over into neighboring countries
- 6. The agreement signed in 2003 that officially ended the Second Congo War
- 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.
- 8. A marxist-leninist dictatorship in Ethiopia
- 12. The President of Uganda who was overthrown in a 1971 coup.
- 13. A military jihadist group based in Nigeria
- 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.
- 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.
- 18. Uganda National Liberation Front
- 23. A group of people from southeastern Nigeria represented by the breakaway state of Biafra.
- 24. The war TPLF fought against the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments from 2002-2022