During civil strife there, Hassoun, then 11, witnessed machete killings from an apartment balcony, he wrote.
In Congo, Sudan and Somalia, chaotic civil strife has kept vaccines and babies apart.
The sooner this happens, the less likely the possibility of civil strife or of intervention in Syria.
The Iraqi invasion brought about civil strife in the country, and increased the Iranian influence in the region.
"This caused civil strife among the community, requiring police intervention to quell the animosity, " the Health Ministry said.
The army, which historically has preferred to give up power rather than risk civil strife, might then desert him.
Countries with unstable governments or undergoing civil strife tend usually have lower scores.
Immigrants are typically poor, and many have suffered the traumas of economic deprivation or civil strife in their native countries.
With their mixed Sunni and Shia populations and legacy of civil strife, both Lebanon and Iraq are increasingly on a knife-edge.
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Brahimi urged the delegates to seize the chance to end more than two decades of war and civil strife in Afghanistan.
Some countries those in West Africa which import their staples, or Bangladesh, with its huge numbers of landless labourers risk ruin and civil strife.
In the current context of civil strife, UNESCO is also particularly concerned about the risks of looting and pillaging of cultural property.
The hunger, civil strife, and war that would follow a real economic collapse would all be really bad for the environment as well.
Somalia has been without a functioning central government for 17 years and has suffered continual civil strife, with rival armed groups fighting for control.
Just comparing Kenya with its neighbours shows that this country is an island of peace in a region that is home to civil strife.
No disaster or civil strife is complete without its own Godot.
The 1958 Cooper ruling was a case out of Arkansas that followed the 1957-58 civil strife after black students were admitted to a Little Rock High School.
The year 2000 is hours away, the streets of Los Angeles are erupting with civil strife, and Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is up to his stubble in bad news.
Leaders of the world's most powerful nations reluctantly agreed this week that they can do nothing to prevent civil strife in the Yugoslav republic of Croatia, German diplomatic sources said.
This was intended to draw a line under the civil strife that ensued, leaving some 150, 000 dead, after the army stepped in when Islamists won the first round of a general election in 1991.
High food prices, together with civil strife, the assassination of aid workers by jihadists, and piracy against food convoys sailing from Kenya to Somalia have combined with drought and desert to create a catastrophe.
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The combination of the Saffron Revolution, civil strife, sanctions, its economic lag behind the rest of ASEAN, and the status of becoming a captive resource supplier to China all played crucial roles in Myanmar's opening.
Raising expectations and then dashing them is a recipe for civil strife in China, which is why officials are doing their best to slap down the puppyish enthusiasm of local officials before it gets out of hand.
Everyone is worried about potential civil strife and its effect on the region, but there is also an economic aspect: while losing trade with Syria might not make a difference to most neighbors, losing the trade route will.
On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
Moreover, the longer he lasts, the bigger the risk that other countries in the region will get sucked into the mayhem, as has happened in the past when civil strife has spread contagiously back and forth through nearby Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and several million destitute.
As the war enters its third year, the U.S. military, State Department officials and the U.N. high commissioner for refugees delivered a dire assessment of a deteriorating situation in Syria and the sober view that even if Assad leaves, the Middle East nation could slip into civil strife and ethnic cleansing similar to the Balkans in the 1990s.
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