Sentences with phrase «ethnic clashes»

- Publishers Weekly «Typhoon is fine entertainment, and with recent ethnic clashes between the Uighurs and Han Chinese in the headlines, it's also topical.»

Now a University of California, Berkeley study links climate - change - induced weather patterns — sizzling heat, droughts, torrential rains — with increases in ethnic clashes, riots and wars.

There have been ethnic clashes with the Roma population recently in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Rebel groups within the country have seized control of a key city, as ethnic clashes and disputes over oil reserves threaten to send the country into a civil war.

Most obviously, the politically instigated ethnic clashes of 1992, 1997 and 2007 created perception in some communities that elections and violence go hand in hand.

Allegations of vote - rigging have sparked concerns, with some Kenyans fearing ethnic clashes similar to those triggered a decade ago.

1994 - One thousand people are killed and a further 150,000 are displaced in the Northern Region following ethnic clashes between the Konkomba and the Nanumba over land ownership.

Cote d'Ivoire's civil war stems, at least in part, from ethnic clashes after masses of people fled the northern dry lands of Burkina Faso for the coast.

Ethnic Clashing December 2001 Clashing between ethnic groups end in violence.

In countries that have experienced civil conflict and ethnic clashes, voters are unlikely to simply believe what politicians tell them.

Adamu Abubakar, has warned troops to remain neutral and justify their actions or inactions in communal and ethnic clashes.

The Aare Ona Kakanfo observed that the separation of Nigerians from their roots was the cause of the national challenges facing the country, such as insecurity, ethnic clashes, economic recession and religious intolerance.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

The worst result from this environmental destruction was the ethnic clashes witnessed recently between the pastoral Maasai and the farming Kikuyu over use of the dwindling water resources at the base of the escarpment.