Word: islamicization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? In 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front won the country's first free elections. The military voided the results, and ever since, the secular government and Islamic militants have been locked in a civil war that has so far claimed an estimated 60,000 lives.
Although the epidemic in Sudan involved a known disease, it was complicated by the fact that for a long time no one knew the outbreak was occurring. The western Upper Nile is one of the world's most remote areas. It has almost no roads, and the Nuer ethnic group...
Algeria's main opposition Islamic group urged a rival to stop killing civilians, as the latest massacre remains shrouded in mystery (TIME Daily)
PARIS: Following a bloody spree that has seen more than 500 people massacred since late August, Algeria's banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is urging the group blamed for the attacks to halt the killings. Government sources say Tuesday's massacre in an Algiers suburb was carried out by an...
But the violence ? which has sometimes taken place near Army barracks ? may be happening with the complicit knowledge of President Liamine Zeroual's military-backed government, says TIME Paris correspondent Scott MacLeod. It is difficult to investigate such claims in a country where reporters are routinely murdered, but it is...