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Achebe was active for several decades in Nigerian politics. In the 1960s, he helped lead the movement for the secession of the south-eastern region of the country, Biafra...
...government recently refused to revise a rule requiring a party to earn at least 10% of the national vote to land any seats in parliament. That means Kurdish parties will probably be shut out of parliament again in the July elections: Although they garner majorities across south-eastern Turkey, they are not likely to get 10% nationwide. "As long as real democratization is not achieved, military operations will fail to reach their goal," says Ragip Duran, a prominent author and analyst of Kurdish issues. "More blood will be spilled. The Kurdish problem is not based in north Iraq...
...pockets of mortgage belt-families is needed right now. Petrol prices are high (by the standards to which Australians see as their birth right) and are not expected to ease for some time. The Reserve Bank's move on interest rates last week has made suburban families in the south-eastern States uneasy, particularly as the market value of their McMansions has been stagnant (or worse...
...ensure they're getting samples from pure dingoes, the Monash team will use a genetic test developed by University of New South Wales geneticist Alan Wilton. Following on from earlier skull morphology work by other researchers, Wilton's test has been ringing alarm bells about the extent of hybridization, confirming a collapse in pure dingo numbers throughout much of south-eastern Australia. And there's plenty more work to be done: one of the problems hindering efforts to manage dingoes is the lack of data on their numbers or the national spread of hybridization, particularly across vast stretches...
...1960s the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino reflected Asian Americans at that point” Chow said. According to Chow, the experience of Southern and South-Eastern Asians has become increasingly significant over the past four decades...