Sunday, 6 April 2014



A2 Geography Unit 3 pre-release 'Development in East Africa'

Resources to help you with: 

Worksheet 7 – Causes of the problem 

#3: Ethnic Conflict















Main ethnic types:


Use the following information for information on the Nilotic

Read the section in this site on Bantu Expansion

Get further information on which tribes in Kenya belong to the Bantu or Nilotic from here.

Read the section on 'Ethnic groups' for information on the Sudanese

For Semitic-Hamitic see Cushitic at end of this site.


Ethnic conflicts in the region:


The 2007-2008 disputed presidential elections in Kenya

Ongoing conflict in Somalia

Refugee crisis resulting from the 2011 drought

Guerrilla conflict in N Uganda since 1987

1978-1979 war between Uganda and Tanzania

1981-1986 Uganda Bush War

1990-1993 Rwanda Civil War

Post 1996 ongoing conflicts in the DRC

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