User:BanyanTree/DYK
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Articles I've created, expanded or suggested that have ended up on Template:Did you know, in chronological order. The incentive to update this is Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs. :D
[edit] Created
- ...that famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine? (August 2005?)
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- ...that the 1994 Rwandan genocide led to a Great Lakes refugee crisis, which ended when nearly two million refugees returned to Rwanda at the start of the First Congo War? (September 2006)
- ...that ancient packrat middens can provide important clues about long term changes in climate or vegetation in an area? (6 November 2005)
- ... that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying? (27 October 2006)
- ... that a reservation, in international law, lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty? (27 October 2006)
- ...that the Black Book, a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement? (29 October 2006)
- ...that Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda to return to work? (8 December 2006)
- ...that SPLA-Nasir was a breakaway faction of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War? (17 December 2006)
- ...that the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative? (30 May 2007)
- ...that Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assasinated by two surface-to-air missiles which took down the presidential Dassault Falcon 50 ? (11 June 2007)
- ...that a dispute over the Sudanese area of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war? (26 October 2007)
- ...that the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people? (4 November 2007)
- ...that the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda? (3 December 2007)
[edit] Expanded
- ...that an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide? (4 January 2007)
- ..that Buganda, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda, maintained a fleet of large outrigger canoes, which allowed commandos to raid any shore on Lake Victoria? (7 November 2007)
[edit] Suggested
- ...that Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War? (12 December 2006)
- ...that the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt? (11 February 2007)
