Once in a year, the various samurai clans come together.

Our only choice is to follow the example of other clans

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs facilitated several rounds of talks between Rahanwein Resistance Army factions, Dir and Marehan clans in Galguduud, and clans in Gedo region.

Other examples of purchases by sub clans are included in annex I.

The boys were from the same clan, but, alas, from different sub clans.

He says a corrupt government led by a few powerful clans is to blame

All elders will wish to be represented where their clans apos interests are involved.

On 6 August 1993 Conference representatives signed the Jubaland peace agreement in which the signatories committed themselves, on behalf of their clans, to end all hostilities among the more than 20 clans that inhabit Jubaland.

Tribes and clans still play some role in the Pakistani society, particularly in rural areas.

Clans preceded more centralized forms of community organization and government they are located in every country.

A number of unintegrated forces, Palestinian clans and individual force commanders continue to wield undue influence.

Finally, different clans around the president have long been trying to promote their own candidates for succession.

The ironic sequel was Somalia s later fragmentation in a civil war among its clans and warlord leaders.

Sometimes marriages take place between members of the clans to effect a compromise and seal the peace .

Over time, control of Kismayo had changed hands several times amongst the various clans in the area.

The same impulses toward extremism are used to justify war between Sunnis and Shia, between tribes and clans.

In former times, other clans would have gladly taken in any ronin who'd earned a name for himself.

Often, the people involved in these crimes belong to local gangs or even to the militias of large clans.

Allegedly the Lou and Jekany clans of the Nuer tribes fought for grazing lands and burnt down some villages.

For over a decade, the Tahltan people, both clans, Wolf and Crow, have resisted this assault on their homeland.

Today, Somalia remains a dysfunctional state, as rival clans, jihadists, and an interim government with Ethiopian support compete for power.

It was thanks to some members of local clans in Raqqa that I knew before. They negotiated for my release.

UNOSOM political and military elements are working with elders of all clans factions to defuse tension in the Kismayo region.

I don't exclude investigations of the clans behind Medvedchuk or Yanukovich, but the rest of business wants clear rules, he says.

In the 1970s, the University confiscated land belonging to two Palestinian clans south west of the University and built a park.

They hold that the clans have not retired ( for good ) and if the clans should advance ( again ) , they would fain be in the desert with the wandering Arabs , asking for the news of you and if they were among you , they would not give battle , save a little .

Recruitment will be proportional among clans on a regional basis and the clan balance will be maintained throughout all phases of recruitment.

This large cabinet represents the difficulties in accommodating Somalia's varied interests and clans and will likely impact the costs of running the TFG.

7. The American Samoan way of life is structured around a social system of clans or extended families (aiga) and their chiefs (matais).

At such moments of decline in Russia, the clans always come to the fore in a mad scramble of self preservation and self enrichment.

Either the president acted now, or Ukraine would return to the absolute rule of criminal clans that existed before our Orange Revolution in 2004.

Moreover, like Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, dynastic politics in Azerbaijan reflects the dominance of clans whose members success is determined by proximity to the president.

The Yanukovich candidacy was supported by the three dominant business clans with rather few allies, while the business community, and even some billionaires, overwhelmingly supported Yushchenko.

And when the true believers saw the clans , they said This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us . Allah and His messenger are true .

A dispute in northern Galguduud and southern Mudug between the Saad and Suleiman sub clans of the Habr Gedir led to widespread fighting and many deaths.

Ruling in the national interest, rather than for the benefit of favored sections or clans, we will apply the law equally to our supporters and our opponents.

Above all, the new Rada (parliament) will settle down to the business of enacting laws and monitoring the government, not carving up the budget among corrupt clans.

The personal ambitions of certain rulers and the propaganda machines they control have plunged clans or whole peoples into conflicts marked by the blind use of violence.

The uncertainties of the succession have created a covert war for property and influence between a handful of different clans, but the system cannot afford an outright winner.

The elders of the two sub clans spent four days negotiating a less bloody solution, and the agreed price of 100 camels worth 7,000 was paid as compensation.

There is some serious concern that the members of some minority clans were excluded from the Somali National Reconciliation Process and from the Transitional Federal Parliament and Government.

The clans are generally divided by region, except in the Kurgan Tyube area, where the population is mixed and which has been the scene of the worst fighting.

Those efforts directed towards the creation of civil structures at local levels and peacemaking initiatives between clans in major population centres have been steps in the right direction.

The country apos s Government and administration were in the hands of the Hutu ethnic group, principally the clans living in the regions of Gisenyi, Ruhengeri and Byumba.

In a country that has socially, politically and geographically disintegrated into its component clans, his influence in the area is equated with that of an occupation force, by some.