A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word paediatrics and its cognates mean healer of children; they derive from two Greek words: ÏÎ±á¿Ï (pais child) and á¼°Î±ÏÏÏÏ (iatros doctor, healer).
Spanish colonial campaigns. The Rif War, also called the Second Moroccan War, was fought in the early 1920s between the colonial power Spain (later assisted by France) and the Moroccan Berbers of the Rif mountainous region. Spain and France in combined action in 1926 won a decisive victory.
In December 1987, RANU held its seventh congress in Kampala and renamed itself the Rwanda Patriotic Front. The new RPF, dominated by Banyarwanda veterans of the war, was far more militaristic than the original RANU. Rwandan Patriotic Front. On 1 October 1990 the RPF invaded Rwanda, starting the Rwandan Civil War. Despite commander Fred Rwigema being killed on 2 October, the RPF incursion was initially successful. However, the Rwandan Army received help from Belgium, France and Zaire and within a month had regained the initiative, forcing the RPF back into Uganda.