There were 15 tribal countries out of 54 located in the region.

Every tribal unit had its leader called Arifs.

It is an ancient wound.

Because each year the winner has come from a different tribal group.

(j) The abduction of women and children by tribal groups and other militias

The !Kung medicine men effect a cure by performing a tribal dance.

Farmers are also continuously harassed by militia and nomadic groups.

Fighting around the city on April 30 killed 12 militants, a soldier and a tribal militia member.

Re imagining this story, Mahasweta Devi changed the leading character of Draupadi to Dopdi Mejhen, a tribal woman.

That has particular significance in the context of Darfur, where tribal and traditional systems exist for the promotion of dispute resolution.

And so as we surveyed the, if you will, representatives from various tribal councils that met, also known as Super Bowl parties, we sent the following email off to 40 newspaper editors the following day.

In certain parts of the world, nations in the form of ancient republics, monarchies or tribal oligarchies emerged.

Along with Mayans other identified tribal peoples within these communities are creole (African) and mestizo.

Local tribal sources confirmed the toll, adding that among the dead insurgents there were at least 12 Somalis and a number of Saudis.

A close study of political parties in the States of the subregion shows that they are ethnically based and have a tribalist ideology.

All of these were economic, cultural, sometimes religious, sometimes ethnic or tribal, and resource driven, as well as political.

The Public Order Law is said to target two main groups, persons involved in land disputes, and persons entangled in tribal disputes.

He must decide whether he is a Muslim first, then a member of his tribe, say, Hausa, and then of his nation, say, Nigeria.

Patronage systems also referred to as spoils systems by many link public employment to political, ethnic, tribal or personal ties.

Now he became the victim of a tribal feud, no court, no warrant, this really sucks, they went got him and cut his leg off....this is neither the Islamic republic, nor

In many continents, dozens of civil wars have been spawned from the womb of the cold war. The causes of these wars are many national, ethnic, religious and tribal.

However, and in spite of these distinctive features, social conflicts which took place on a tribal basis were the exception rather than the rule.

Indeed, crises or conflicts today are for the most part internal in nature civil wars, territorial partitions, ethnic clashes, religious or tribal struggles, and so forth.

14. At the end of January 1994, ethnic conflict in northern Ghana escalated into violent tribal warfare, which resulted in the displacement of approximately 150,000 persons.

Now, if we go further up the tree of life, further up the taxonomy and you'll sometimes see tribe mentioned.

And so as we surveyed the, if you will, representatives from various tribal councils that met, also known as Super Bowl parties, we sent the following email off to 40 newspaper editors the following day.

In my previous post, I worried that the infant violence at the time (Dec. 30) would last longer or even evolve into tribal or civil war.

The next day, however, the village was reported by tribal sources to have fallen back into Islamist hands after government forces put up little resistance to a militant convoy advancing from a nearby town.

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A cluster of 40 tribal villages has been supported in establishing and managing legally recognized cooperatives or cooperative like self help organizations, providing loans and credit, health and education.

We have some 18 million first time voters, of whom some 57 per cent are functionally illiterate. Many of them live in remote tribal areas where the concept of an election is wholly unknown.

Violent confrontations took place between the rebel movements and Government forces, who were operating jointly with armed tribal militia, or at least in the same area at the same time and towards the same general goals.

Cohesive rituals, beliefs and organization were spread throughout the world of Yoruba (and other major African religious tribal groups such as Fon), to an extent characteristic of nations and many organized religions, not simply tribes.

On April 24, 2003, only two weeks after the fall of Baghdad, a dozen Turkish special forces were arrested in Da Quq (a tribal village 45 minutes north of Kirkuk).

The State party should pay particular attention to the close cultural ties that bind certain indigenous or tribal peoples to their land and take into consideration the Committee's general recommendation XXIII of 1997 in this regard.

Let me be clear I was not predicting or expecting the violence to evolve into a full blown tribal war and I am certainly not saying now I told you so, but the fact is, Kenya is now more close to civil war than it had ever been.

And the reason that this date was so momentous is that what my colleagues, John King and Halee Fischer Wright, and I noticed as we began to debrief various Super Bowl parties, is that it seemed to us that across the United States, if you will, tribal councils had convened.

UNMIS has also resolved a series of standoffs at the sector level, including the deployment of SPLA forces into the former garrison towns of Juba and Kadugli, and contributed to the restoration of security following tribal clashes in Yambio.

Given Libya s lack of democratic experience, some view this as a likely outcome in the post Qaddafi era. But Libya is not the only country that has tried to move from dictatorship to democracy with weak institutions and strong tribal identities.

These attacks were confirmed by the Head of AMIS, Baba Gana Kingibe, who announced in a press conference on 1 October that the Sudanese Armed Forces had conducted coordinated offensive operations with tribal militia on four occasions since 18 September.