Word: ethnicity
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...Jakob-Park in Basel. It was a cruel fate for the co-hosts, who put out maximum effort in both of its matches and got nothing to show for it. And the wash-out was just the beginning for Swiss fans: by the end of the week all their ethnic cousins in Europe's soccer heartland were faring far worse than predicted after Germany lost to the Croats, Italy squeaked through with a draw against Romania, and the French team was handed an ignoble 4-1 defeat by the Dutch...
...Odinga also blamed the continent's ethnic conflicts on the "mediocrity of African leadership." Even the mild-mannered President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, struck a sharp note, hitting out at the practice, still widespread among African men, of taking multiple wives and siring hordes of children. Jacob Zuma, tipped to be the next President of South Africa, listened calmly. He boasts four wives and at least 18 children...
...Since the 1999 Kosovo war, the smoke-filled, vinyl seated bar and cafe on the ground floor of a crumbling apartment block has been a gathering place for the hard line Serbs who want to keep ethnic-Albanians out of their enclave. Its position on the front line has made La Dolce Vita the target of bomb attacks against Serbs by ethnic Albanians (nine people were injured here in 2006), and also a bully pulpit for anti-Western tirades...
...evict Serbian judges from a U.N. courthouse. Local Serbs attacked NATO soldiers and U.N. police with grenades and rifles, and several hundred people were injured in the resulting melee - including one Ukrainian policeman in the U.N. force who died from shrapnel wounds. Despite the occasional rumor, still, of ethnic Albanian "terrorists" coming across the bridge to threaten Kosovo's Serb minority, the Serb "bridgewatchers" gathered at La Dolce Vita as an early warning system barely glance at the bridge any more...
...been almost a decade since the Ibar became a de facto border between Mitrovica's Serbs and its ethnic-Albanians, and the two communities have effectively gone their separate ways. South of the river, a burgeoning population of ethnic Albanians is building one of the largest new towns in the newborn state - new kitchen appliance shops and cinemas are popping up to cater to the needs of a growing white-collar population. North of the river, Belgrade is doing its best to shore up the Serb community, doubling the salaries of civil servants who agree to stay on. "Belgrade will...