Internal Conflicts In Africa

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Internal Conflicts In Africa

• Presentation By Akilah, Janessa and Jonathan
• Class Period 3rd

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Countries To Look Out For!!
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Today we will be talking to you about Internal
Conflict. So Listen Carefully Take Good Notes.!
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Hutu And Tutsi People

• The Hutu and Tutsi people have been at war for
  over 60 years because the Germans and Belgians
  view the Tutsi as superior people and favors them
  so they were promoted in society
• most Hutu were exploited farmers and were denied
  positions of authority. The killing began in 1959
  with a Hutu uprising in Rwanda. when Rwanda and
  Burundi achieved independence in 1962 Hutu and
  Tutsi political groups began a struggle for
  control in the two countries .
• Violence spread to the neighboring countries of
  Tanzania , Uganda and the Democratic republic
  of Congo since the 1960s more than a million men
  , women and children have lost their lives.

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Tribal Tension between the Lunda and Kaonde
speaking people

• This conflict began in 1998 with a priest in one
  village in the northwestern province of Zambia
  who was lynched by and irate congregation not
  because he was saying anything they did not like
  but rather because he was saying it in a language
  that the Kaonde didnt approve of. More recently
  another man from the Delunda speaking tribe was
  beaten up for greeting a group of men in a
  language they hated as much as they despise the
  people who spoke it.

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Nigerian Conflict

• 1960 Nigeria become independent and ethnic
  tensions divide the country
• 1966 Military officials take control of
  Nigeria's government
• 1967 The eastern regions secedes from Nigeria
  the Ibo population sets up the Republic of Diafra
• 1967-1970s a civil war between Nigerian
  government forces and Biafran rebels result in
  about one million casualties
• 1980s Nigeria is ruled by military dictatorship
• 1993 military allows free elections and riots
  sweep Nigeria
• 2000 tensions increase between Nigeria's Muslim
  Christian communities

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Senegal River

• During the late 1980s the government planned to
  construct a major dam which would change the flow
  of water in the region and allow for increased
  agriculture opportunities that the dam had
  unexpected consequences. The dam project was
  initiated in order to increase irrigated
  agriculture, generate electricity and make the
  river navigatable however the resulting land use
  changes indirectly contributed massive social
  upheaval inequitable land reform and a situation
  of potential internal conflict.

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This is how it ends. With the people of Africa
uniting together to form one and try to make
peace.
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Vocabulary! )