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... ensuing territorial losses; Russia demands better treatment of ethnic Russians in Estonia and Latvia; Estonian citizen groups continue to press for realignment of the boundary based on the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
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fighting among ethnic groups - loosely associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces in Great Lakes region transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda - abated ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/i_ti.html
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... advice of the leader of the opposition, and two after consultation with religious, economic, and social groups) and the House of Assembly (17 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/d_gv.html
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total: 242 sq km land: 242 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/b_mp.html
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Ansar Al Marah (supports women's rights) other: gas companies; religious groups
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/d_gv.html
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20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
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as domestic fighting among disparate ethnic groups, rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone gradually abate, the number of refugees in border areas has ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/i_ti.html
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... economic problems remain from the apartheid era - especially poverty, lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups, and a shortage of public transportation. South African economic policy is fiscally conservative but pragmatic ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
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... or Karuna Faction [Vinayagamurthi MURALITHARAN] (paramilitary breakaway from LTTE and fighting LTTE) other: Buddhist clergy; labor unions; radical chauvinist Sinhalese groups such as the National Movement Against Terrorism; Sinhalese Buddhist lay groups
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/d_gv.html
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... an agreement to repatriate 13,300 Sudanese and 6,800 Congolese; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia proceed slowly due to civil and ethnic ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/i_ti.html
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... political party in mid 2006. Talks over the constitution broke down between the government and progressive groups in 2007. Swaziland recently surpassed Botswana as the country with the world's highest known ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/a_fg.html
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Damascus Declaration National Council [Riyad SEIF, secretary general] (a broad alliance of opposition groups and individuals including: Committee for Revival of Civil Society [Michel KILO, Riyad SEIF], Communist Action Party [Fateh JAMOUS ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/d_gv.html
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Organization for Taiwan Nation Building; World United Formosans for Independence other: environmental groups; independence movement; various business groups note: debate on Taiwan independence has become acceptable within the mainstream of domestic politics ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/d_gv.html
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Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889. They were transferred to New Zealand administration in 1925. Referenda held in 2006 ...
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/a_fg.html
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3 island groups; Ha'apai, Tongatapu, Vava'u
www.exxun.com/Tonga/d_gv.html
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... outlawed; unofficial, small opposition movements exist underground or in foreign countries; the two most prominent opposition groups-in-exile have been National Democratic Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United Democratic Party ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/d_gv.html
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Caribbean, two island groups in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of The Bahamas, north of Haiti
www.exxun.com/TurksandCaicosIslands/b_mp.html
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... The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures. These differences prevented the establishment of a working political ...
www.exxun.com/Uganda/a_fg.html
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... Assembly (332 seats; 215 members elected by popular vote, 104 nominated by legally established special interest groups [women 79, army 10, disabled 5, youth 5, labor 5], 13 ex officio members; to ...
www.exxun.com/Uganda/d_gv.html
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Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces that extend across its borders; Uganda hosts 209,860 Sudanese, 27,560 Congolese, and 19,710 Rwandan ...
www.exxun.com/Uganda/i_ti.html
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... aging population, sizable trade and budget deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups. The merchandise trade deficit reached a record $847 billion in 2007. Together, these problems caused ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
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... Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Vargas, Yaracuy, Zulia note: the federal dependency consists of 11 federally controlled island groups with a total of 72 individual islands
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/d_gv.html
