decades
... path between the Warsaw Pact nations and the West for the next four and a half decades. In 1989, Slobodan MILOSEVIC became president of the Serbian Republic and his ultranationalist calls for ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
decades
... rule that managed to impose a degree of stability in the country for a couple of decades. After the regime's collapse early in 1991, Somalia descended into turmoil, factional fighting, and ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/a_fg.html
decades
... 1983. Tens of thousands have died in the ethnic conflict that continues to fester. After two decades of fighting, the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) formalized a cease-fire ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/a_fg.html
decades
... displaced and, according to rebel estimates, more than two million deaths over a period of two decades. Peace talks gained momentum in 2002-04 with the signing of several accords. The final North ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/a_fg.html
decades
... the work force and contributes a third of GDP. The Darfur conflict, the aftermath of two decades of civil war in the south, the lack of basic infrastructure in large areas, and ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
decades
... and the Sudanese Armed Forces and associated militias in the ongoing conflict in Darfur; during the decades of civil war, thousands of Dinka women and children were enslaved by members of Baggara ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/i_ti.html
decades
... The country lacked political stability, however, and experienced a series of military coups during its first decades. Syria united with Egypt in February 1958 to form the United Arab Republic. In September ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/a_fg.html
decades
... a government using the 1946 constitution drawn up for all of China. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized and incorporated the local population within the governing structure. In ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/a_fg.html
decades
... province of Timor Timur (East Timor). An unsuccessful campaign of pacification followed over the next two decades, during which an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 individuals lost their lives. On 30 August 1999 ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
decades
... EYADEMA, installed as military ruler in 1967, ruled Togo with a heavy hand for almost four decades. Despite the facade of multiparty elections instituted in the early 1990s, the government was largely ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/a_fg.html
decades
... a French invasion in 1881 and the creation of a protectorate. Agitation for independence in the decades following World War I was finally successful in getting the French to recognize Tunisia as ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/a_fg.html
decades
... is one of the quintet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades, the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/e_ec.html
decades
... exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of ...
www.exxun.com/Yemen/a_fg.html
Decan
30 municipalities (komunat, singular - komuna in Albanian; opstine, singular - opstina in Serbian); Decan (Decani), Dragash (Dragas), Ferizaj (Urosevac), Fushe Kosove (Kosovo Polje), Gjakove (Dakovica), Gllogoc/Drenas (Glogovac), Gjilan (Gnjilane), Istog (Istok), Kacanik ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/d_gv.html
Decani
30 municipalities (komunat, singular - komuna in Albanian; opstine, singular - opstina in Serbian); Decan (Decani), Dragash (Dragas), Ferizaj (Urosevac), Fushe Kosove (Kosovo Polje), Gjakove (Dakovica), Gllogoc/Drenas (Glogovac), Gjilan (Gnjilane), Istog (Istok), Kacanik ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/d_gv.html
decay
coral reef decay; solid waste disposal
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/b_mp.html
Deccan
upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
www.exxun.com/India/b_mp.html
deceived
... and East Asian workers recruited for low-skilled work in Iraq; some of these workers are deceived as to the true location and nature of this work, and others are subjected to ...
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/i_ti.html
decelerate
... economy continues to grow by less than the euro-zone average and growth is expected to decelerate from 1.9% in 2006 and 2007 to under 1.5% in 2008 as the euro-zone ...
www.exxun.com/Italy/e_ec.html
December
... new constitution and a presidential 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 ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
December
... KARZAI (since 7 December 2004); Vice Presidents Ahmad Zia MASOOD and Abdul Karim KHALILI (since 7 December 2004) cabinet: 25 ministers; note - under the new constitution, ministers are appointed by the president ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/d_gv.html
December
$2.248 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Albania/e_ec.html
December
... in Algerian politics. The surprising first round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the December 1991 balloting spurred the Algerian army to intervene and postpone the second round of elections ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
