The Great Lakes Region has endured ... the colonial wounds left by Belgium. The divisions between communities, the arbitrary borders that disregarded ethnic and cultural ties, and the economic ...

in an attempt to destabilize both Rwanda and the region. “Beyond Belgium’s destructive historical role in fueling the ethnic ...

Belgium may appear to outsiders as a good example of ethnic power sharing ... in Wallonia — and also the region’s minister-president — Di Rupo, 55, is the heavyweight of Francophone politics.

long-disadvantaged ethnic groups for self-determination within a Europe of regions. Scots, Catalans, Basques and Corsicans are eagerly following events in Belgium, partly out of curiosity over how ...

Ethnic cleansing campaigns have continued in Ethiopia's Tigray region, despite a November 2022 ... according to researchers from Belgium's Ghent University. Han Nyssen, senior professor of ...

Almost all the suspects are ethnic Chechens, and three of them possess ... raided nine addresses in several towns in western Belgium in an operation led by an investigating judge specialised ...

Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused neighboring Azerbaijan on Thursday of "ethnic cleansing" as tens of thousands of people fled the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia.

A ban on kosher slaughter by the Flanders region of Belgium will go into effect January 1, after legislation prohibiting animal slaughter without pre-stunning was passed in the region’s ...

This year's winners have shone a particular spotlight on border ethnic regions and the lives of ethnic minority communities. "These works vividly showcase the diverse culture and history of ethnic ...

BEIJING – BEIJING (AP) — China plans to inject nearly $1.5 billion into a western region that is the site of simmering unrest, boosting its economy in hopes of reducing ethnic tension after ...

Belgium is dispatching a ... more violence between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, which has spawned decades of mayhem in Africa’s Great Lakes region including the 1994 genocide of Rwandan ...

It was the latest of several bloody outbursts over the past year in the western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, along the border with Sudan, where ethnic tensions are running high. By Simon Marks and ...