But some leading African Union members are fearful of encouraging secessionist sentiment across the continent.
In Canada's would-be secessionist province of Quebec , the ineffectual leader of the provincial Liberals, Daniel Johnson, resigned.
In the 1990s, a secessionist movement in the Caprivi Strip, in eastern Namibia, caused thousands to flee to Botswana.
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Paradoxically, many Quebeckers seem to see a secessionist government as the way to get the best deal within Canada.
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Back in New York, he opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (in homage to European secessionist movements) at 291 Fifth Avenue.
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Mr. Saleh depends on U.S. financial support and training for his military to hold off the secessionist movements that threaten his government.
That is why Mr Mas recoils from the independentista or secessionist tags.
Mr Tadic's party is more liberal, yet over the future of Kosovo, Serbia's secessionist southern province, Mr Tadic has been as hawkish as anyone.
Rebels of the Houthi clan hold sway in much of the north, around Saada, while a secessionist movement has gained momentum in the south.
India accuses Bangladesh of harbouring secessionist groups from its restive North-East.
Correspondents say the security situation in Yemen is complicated by an abundance of firearms, an insurgency in the north and a secessionist movement in the south.
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Tiny Djibouti, home to a large American military base, and secessionist Somaliland, which has peeled way from the rest of Somalia, could both play vital roles.
EU. It does not take much imagination to see how, after Labour's crushing election victory, a secessionist dynamic might develop around what remains of the Tory party.
Opinion polls suggest that if Mr Berlusconi teamed up with Umberto Bossi, leader of the secessionist Northern League, they could sweep the north as they did in 1994.
To make matters worse for President Saleh, his government is being rattled by the resurgence of a secessionist movement in the south of Yemen, which used to be a separate country.
Besides, in contrast to all his other secessionist wars, the ethnic issue might be harder to exploit: though many Montenegrins argue they are ethnically distinct from Serbs, others feel they are the same.
Though that idea was quickly chucked, several works from that first issue are in this collection, including a story by David Foster Wallace, delivered languidly and without paragraph breaks from an ex-convict, and an essay by Zev Borow about the Hawaiian secessionist movement.
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