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Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
www.exxun.com/Burma/c_pp.html
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... 2006) cabinet: Federal Ministry chosen by the prime minister usually from among the members of his own party sitting in Parliament elections: the monarchy is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/d_gv.html
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... agreement in which the federal presidency rotates among the three islands, and each island maintains its own local government. AZALI won the 2002 Presidential election, and each island in the archipelago elected ...
www.exxun.com/Comoros/a_fg.html
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... intermittently since the mid-1960s; in 1975, following the 1974 Turkish intervention, Turkish Cypriots created their own constitution and governing bodies within the "Turkish Federated State of Cyprus," which became the "Turkish ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/d_gv.html
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the Sovereign Base Area Administration has its own court system to deal with civil and criminal matters; laws applicable to the Cypriot population are, as far as possible, the same as the ...
www.exxun.com/Dhekelia/d_gv.html
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... Haiti. The remainder of the island, by then known as Santo Domingo, sought to gain its own independence in 1821, but was conquered and ruled by the Haitians for 22 years; it ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/a_fg.html
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... shadow" fiscal management program with the World Bank and IMF. Government officials and their family members own most businesses. Undeveloped natural resources include titanium, iron ore, manganese, uranium, and alluvial gold. Growth ...
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... to continue for several years; some Sudanese, Somali, and Eritrean refugees, who fled to Ethiopia from the fighting or famine in their own countries, continue to return to their homes (2008 est
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/c_pp.html
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... spillover effects from conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia. As those countries have rebuilt, Guinea's own vulnerability to political and economic crisis has increased. Declining economic conditions and popular dissatisfaction with ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/a_fg.html
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French (official); note - each ethnic group has its own language
www.exxun.com/Guinea/c_pp.html
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... Conakry reasonably well served; coverage elsewhere remains inadequate and large companies tend to rely on their own systems for nationwide links; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is about 2 per 100 ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/f_cm.html
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... separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons testing in 1998 caused Pakistan to conduct its own tests that same year. The dispute between the countries over the state of Kashmir is ...
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
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none; there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 24 local authorities each with its own elections
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/d_gv.html
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... women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; North Korea's own system of political repression includes forced labor in a network of prison camps where an ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/i_ti.html
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... of water to South Africa and generated royalties for Lesotho. Lesotho produces about 90% of its own electrical power needs. As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
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... 1951. Following a 1969 military coup, Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI began to espouse his own political system, the Third Universal Theory. The system is a combination of socialism and Islam ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
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... to permit another term, struggled to assert his authority against his predecessor and subsequently started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2005. As president, MUTHARIKA has overseen substantial economic ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/a_fg.html
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... constitution; under terms of federation, Sabah and Sarawak retain certain constitutional prerogatives (e.g., right to maintain their own immigration controls); Sabah holds 25 seats in House of Representatives; Sarawak has 31 seats
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/d_gv.html
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... Development. On 18 January 2007, Montenegro joined the World Bank and IMF. Montenegro is pursuing its own membership in the World Trade Organization as well as negotiating a Stabilization and Association agreement ...
www.exxun.com/Montenegro/e_ec.html
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... massacred ten members of the royal family, including the king and queen, and then took his own life. In October 2002, the new king dismissed the prime minister and his cabinet for ...
www.exxun.com/Nepal/a_fg.html
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none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) note: each island has its own government
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/d_gv.html
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English common law; note - Niue is self-governing, with the power to make its own laws
www.exxun.com/Niue/d_gv.html
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... becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998. The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/a_fg.html
