Sentences with phrase «decades of civil war»

Benefits from the deal are expected to extend well beyond the bank — Aceh Governor Irwandi Jusuf sees the initiative as a key step in the region's recovery from the devastating 2004 tsunami and three decades of civil war.

There is great irony in her series As Terras do Fim do Mundo, recently exhibited at the Walther Collection's new Chelsea Project Space, as this land at the end of the earth, scarred from three decades of civil war, is anything but occupied.

They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two - thousand - year - old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war.

The discovery is part of a trend among local and foreign scientists to focus again on Afghanistan after decades of civil war and invasions there, says Stephen Peters, lead researcher on a U.S. Geological Survey effort to assess the mineral resources in the central Asian country.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

KENEMA, Sierra Leone — A short - term missions team from South Coast Community Church in New Orleans, La., arrived in this country racked by three decades of civil war, and began serving the ravaged people through the ministries of clowning and puppetry.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.»

South Sudan seceded from the predominantly Sunni Muslim north in 2011 after decades of civil war.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

In west Africa health facilities make do with much less: A survey conducted by Doctors Without Borders in July and August in the Monrovia area of Liberia, a country struggling to recover from more than a decade of civil war.

With her flashy sunglasses, bits of military garb, and amputated arm, this figure suggests the interplay of power and loss over decades of civil wars in Africa.

This work all contributes to the rebuilding of lives following over a decade of civil war and more recently the worst ever recorded Ebola outbreak.

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

Mogadishu is a battle - ravaged capital, the epicenter of the over two - decade civil war that scattered millions of Somalis across the world.

The civil war that has been ravaging the country and the world for the better part of the last decade is largely seen as a proxy war between larger players.

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

Griffiths shows his ignorance of Afghan history when he accepts a return to the civil war of the 1990s if it means a stop to the war of the last decade.

They became merely the latest casualties of a decades - long civil war that's left 220,000 people dead.

For example, the CSGC considers about 20 pecent of the DRC civil war deaths to be martyrs, which heavily influences its tally (averaged over a decade).

The greater force bringing an end to the old classicist colleges was the demand that led to the establishment of universities and graduate education in the decades following the Civil War.

At that time, however, there had been six decades of relative stagnation in race relations since the national compromise in the 1870s after the Civil War and Reconstruction.

I have spent decades in the study of wars, ancient and modern, my starting point being the Nigerian Civil War.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

Ivory Coast emerged from a decade of political turmoil in 2011 following a brief civil war sparked by former President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to recognise Ouattara's victory in an election in late 2010.

When Angola finally gained independence in 1975, civil war quickly engrossed large portions of the territory, reversing gains over the previous two decades.

The decline in the occurrence of civil war over the last two decades is substantial, and likely due in part to concerted international conflict management efforts.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

In the largest protests in the country for decades, thousands of civilians have been killed and the situation has the potential to turn into a civil war between the government, the opposition, and Islamist groups.

Compared with census figures from the 1990s, the numbers of Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers grew more slowly; blacks recorded their first population loss since the Civil War; and non-Hispanic whites, who registered their smallest population loss in decades, also logged the biggest gains of any group among young children.

This new IISS report finds that climate change is unlikely to spark interstate wars between major military powers in the next three or four decades, but it simultaneously cautions that climate change will boost the chances of scrambles for limited resources, mass migrations and civil conflict.

A decade ago, before the onset of Syria's brutal civil war, he was part of a team that gathered samples from an unusual kitchen in a palace in the northwestern Syrian city of Ebla, which flourished 4 millennia ago on the outskirts of the Sumerian and Akkadian empires.

Yet, thousands perished of starvation throughout the region and populations in Somalia, Kenya and elsewhere remain reliant on aid — a decades - long failure that also encompasses civil war and political instability.

There are some countries that have been in a state of civil war for decades, so if I had said, «I'll wait to see how the situation develops» I may still be waiting.»»

Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator's push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War.

After the events of Captain America: Civil War, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) took his old friend Bucky Barnes to Wakanda, to see if T'challa (Chadwick Boseman) and his high - tech team could erase all of the HYDRA brainwashing that was done to him decades ago, which was used against him in Captain America: Civil War.

Captain America has been one of the MCU's most cherished heroes for decades, but as of Captain America: Civil War, Steve Rogers has abandoned his patriotic mantle and is on the run due to his anti-registration activities.

It is very much the product of changing attitudes about the Civil War and several decades» worth of scholarly research into Reconstruction.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

After close to a decade of watching these heroes come into their own, flying around Earth and transporting themselves to different universes, Civil War is the first truly human movie about a team of superhuman individuals.

It would even survive the blighted nation's decades of post independence suffering marked by poverty and civil war, during which Wendo's brand of Rumba would serve to sustain the spirits of the people.

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

Parker delivers an Oscar - caliber performance as Nat Turner, a black preacher in the antebellum South who led an uprising of his fellow slaves three decades prior to the Civil War.

The latest Tarantino film takes place a decade or so after the Civil War, and centers around a bounty hunter (Russell) and his fugitive (Leigh) who get holed up with six other strangers after a blizzard cuts them off from the town of Red Rock.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

Because that's true, «Captain America: Civil War» appeals to me more strongly than any superhero movie of the last decade.

Sarris was in that first Corliss issue with «Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1970,» an update on his decade - earlier staking - out of the American auteurist territory that had initiated a blazing (un) civil war in the critical fraternity.

It's the most influential American action movie of the decade, and if you've seen John Wick, you've seen its influence on everything that has come after, up to and including Marvel movies (the co-directors of the first JW directed the second - unit action photography for Captain America: Civil War).

10:00 pm — IFC — Pan's Labyrinth One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine.