nation
... was internationally recognized as an independent state. In late April 2006, internal tensions threatened the new nation's security when a military strike led to violence and a near breakdown of law ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
nation
... for 31 years, repressing Islamic fundamentalism and establishing rights for women unmatched by any other Arab nation. In November 1987, BOURGUIBA was removed from office and replaced by Zine el Abidine BEN ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/a_fg.html
nation
... license fees, remittances from overseas workers, official transfers, and income from overseas investments. Growing income disparities and the vulnerability of the country to climatic change are among leading concerns for the nation
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/e_ec.html
nation
... the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a founding member of ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/a_fg.html
nation
... primary energy production accounts for 10% of GDP, one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. Services, particularly banking, insurance, and business services, account by far for the largest proportion of ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/e_ec.html
nation
... American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/a_fg.html
nation
... labor; Venezuelan women and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation, lured from the nation's interior to urban and tourist areas; child prostitution in urban areas and child sex ...
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/i_ti.html
nation
... financial markets and lowered consumer confidence. Worldwide, nations varied widely in their growth results. Externally, the nation-state, as a bedrock economic-political institution, is steadily losing control over international flows of ...
www.exxun.com/World/e_ec.html
nation
... finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980. Robert MUGABE, the nation's first prime minister, has been the country's only ruler (as president since 1987 ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
Nationaal
National Army (Nationaal Leger, NL; includes Naval Wing, Air Wing) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Suriname/h_ml.html
National
... election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. On 7 December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan. The National Assembly was inaugurated on 19 December 2005
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
National
... SALEKZADA]; National Prosperity Party [Mohammad Hassan JAHFAREE]; National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan [Pir Sayed Eshaq GAILANEE]; National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan [Sayed Mansoor NADREEI]; National Sovereignty Party [Sayed Mustafa KAZEMI]; National Stability ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/d_gv.html
National
Afghan Armed Forces: Afghan National Army (ANA, includes Afghan National Army Air Corps) (2008)
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/h_ml.html
National
... Office [Kreshnik SPAHIU]; Confederation of Trade Unions of Albania or KSSH [Kastriot MUCO]; Front for Albanian National Unification or FBKSH [Gafur ADILI]; Mjaft Movement; Omonia [Jani JANI]; Union of Independent Trade Unions ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/d_gv.html
national
... will help relieve the energy shortages. Also, the government is moving slowly to improve the poor national road and rail network, a long-standing barrier to sustained economic growth. On the positive ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/e_ec.html
national
65 (3 national, 62 local); 2 cable networks (2005)
www.exxun.com/Albania/f_cm.html
National
... through much of the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has dominated politics ever since. Many Algerians in the subsequent generation were ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
National
... BELHADJ, Dr. Abassi MADANI, Rabeh KEBIR]; National Democratic Rally (Rassemblement National Democratique) or RND [Ahmed OUYAHIA]; National Entente Movement or MEN [Ali BOUKHAZNA]; National Liberation Front or FLN [Abdelaziz BELKHADEM, secretary general ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/d_gv.html
National
National Popular Army (ANP; includes Land Forces), Algerian National Navy (MRA), Air Force (QJJ), Territorial Air Defense Force (2005)
www.exxun.com/Algeria/h_ml.html
National
... Enric TARRADO]; Liberal Party of Andorra or PLA [Albert PINTAT SANTOLARIA] (formerly Liberal Union or UL); Social Democratic Party or PS [Jaume BARTUMEU CASSANY] (formerly part of National Democratic Group or AND
www.exxun.com/Andorra/d_gv.html
National
... Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), led by Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS, and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas SAVIMBI, followed independence from ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/a_fg.html
National
... National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA [disputed between Ngola KABANGU and Lucas NGONDA]; National Union for the Total Independence of Angola or UNITA (largest opposition party) [Isaias SAMAKUVA]; Popular ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/d_gv.html
