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 | | The constitution of 1960 established a strong presidential government, and Maurice Yaméogo of the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV) became the first president. | | | During the 1960s and early 1970s, Upper Volta received a great deal of financial aid from France. | | | In 1947, Upper Volta was reestablished as a separate territory within the French Union, and in 1958 it became an autonomous republic within the French Community. |
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| | The United Democratic Forces were set up in the spring of 1996 when the parliamentary Union of Democratic Forces, the People's Union, the ethnic Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms and several extra-parliamentary formations agreed on nominating a single candidate for the presidential elections. | | | UDF leader Nadejda Mikhailova asked President Parvanov to veto this law (Agence France Presse, April 27, 2002). | | | UDF leader Ekaterina Mihailova cited the National Movement’s attempt to also form an alliance with the MRF as the reason for the failed coalition attempt between the UDF and the NMS II (Associated Press Worldstream, July 16, 2001). |
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| Â | Senegal: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com |
| | During the period from 1854 to 1865 (except for 1862), Capt. Louis Faidherbe was governor of Senegal, and he extended French influence up the Senegal and along the Casamance and conquered Walo and Cayor. | | | Senegal was awarded to France in 1815 by the Treaty of Paris and became a French colony in 1895 as part of French West Africa, with full independence being won in 1960. | | | The Senegalese republic 's head of state is the president, elected by universal adult suffrage to a five-year term, who appoints the prime minister who in turn appoints the cabinet in consultation with the president. |
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| | President Leopold Sedar Senghor (a Christian) was Senegal's first President and presided over a moderate partly-democratic system (Senegal was a one-party state from 1966-75). | | | Senegal has good relations with Western countries and is extremely close to France, which provides the largest contribution of external aid. | | | Senghor nominated Abdou Diouf as his successor in 1980. |
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| Â | BBC News AFRICA Senegal president to seek new powers |
| | Djibo Ka, the opposition presidential candidate who at the last minute urged his supporters to back President Diouf in the second round of the elections, faces unrest within his own Union for Democratic Renewal party. | | | The French co-operation minister, Charles Josselin, who attended President Wade's inauguration, suggested that France would reassess its aid to Senegal which has been declining for some years now. | | | Analysts say that Senegal should be able to secure support from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which see democratic change as an element of good government. |
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| | This prompts claims of electoral malpractice by the Democratic Party of Senegal and the Union for Democratic Renewal, who between them win only a small minority of seats in the national assembly. | | | Senegal therefore remains at the centre of France's west African empire, until all the separate colonies win their independence in 1960. | | | The establishment of Senegal as a French colony is merely one part of the French colonial effort in west Africa during the 1880s and 1890s. |
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| | However, after the Franco-German War, when the International Association was prohibited in France after the uprising of the Commune, the German workingmen, who had received manhood suffrage for elections to the newly constituted imperial parliament, insisted upon modifying the tactics of the International, and began to build up a Social Democratic political party. | | | This soon led to a division in the Working Men's Association, and the Latin federations, Spanish, Italian, Belgian and Jurassic (France could not be represented), constituted among themselves a Federal union which broke entirely with the Marxist general council of the International. | | | Accordingly, since the foundation of the International Working Men's Association in 1864-1866, they have endeavoured to promote their ideas directly amongst the labour organizations and to induce those unions to a direct struggle against capital, without placing their faith in parliamentary legislation. |
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| | Since 1997, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC; formerly called Zaire) has been rent by ethnic strife and civil war, touched off by a massive inflow in 1994 of refugees from the fighting in Rwanda and Burundi. | | | Independence from France came to Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in 1960 Several hundred thousand farm workers migrate south every year to Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. | | | Location: Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
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| | After the left wing of Civil Alliance separated to form Social Democratic Union (SDU), the party moved towards center and ideologically became close to Democratic Party which since its inception belonged to the liberal, right center. | | | It takes several years to form a political system that would resemble the one in Great Britain, France or Germany. | | | Overnight, Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) became the unassailable leader of the right-centre, mostly resulting from the popularity of its leader Vojislav Kostunica. |
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| Â | Torture in the Algerian war (1954-62) The role of the French army-then and now |
| | The social democratic Interior Minister François Mitterrand, who later became president, said in parliament on November 5, 1954: "The Algerian rebellion can lead to only one conclusion, that is, war." He declared that Algeria was part of France: the Mediterranean separates Algeria from France just as the river Seine separates the two halves of Paris. | | | For several months now this topic has been openly discussed in France, since two high-ranking retired generals admitted last November that in the 1954-62 Algeria war members of the Algerian liberation movement (FLN) were tortured, abused and executed. | | | France's colonial policy won the support of the Stalinists, when the Communist Party under the leadership of Jacques Duclos supported the state budget in 1954 and in 1956 voted for the special measures proposed by the government, at a time when there were already mass demonstrations taking place in Paris against the Algerian war. |
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| | After the fall of Communism in Europe, Germany was in 1990 again united as a fully sovereign country; together with France the new Germany is playing a leading role in the European Union. | | | The function of head of state is performed by the Bundespräsident (Federal President), whose powers are mostly limited to ceremonial and representative duties. | | | Germany is a constitutional federal democracy, whose political system is laid out in the 1949 'constitution' called Grundgesetz (Basic Law). |
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| | The U.D.M.A In 1946, after a year of imprisonment Ferhat Abbas founded the Union Democratique du Manifeste Algerien (U.D.M.A. ; Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto), which advocated co-operation with France in the formation of the Algerian state. | | | The A.M.L On its rejection by the French governor general, Ferhat Abbas and an Algerian working-class leader, Messali Hadj, formed the Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberte (A.M.L. ; Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty), which envisioned an Algerian autonomous republic federated to a renewed, anti-colonial France. | | | Resignation from presidency When F.L.N. published an Algerian constitution without the help of the Constituent Assembly, Ferhat Abbas saw his goals much different than what he believed in and therefore he resigned. |
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| | For the past four years, the largest minority group, the Hungarians (roughly seven percent of the population), have been represented in the ruling coalition and Parliament by the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). | | | Romania's options for president are no longer that great. | | | One senior diplomat at the OSCE has commented that "everybody is looking at the election with concern because of the surge of the far-right" (Agence France Presse, 28 November 2000). |
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| | - Union of Democratic Forces for Progress or UFDP | | | His curriculum vitae is impressive: Laudable accomplishments in African peace-keeping and humanitarian work with Jimmy Carter, his many awards from all over Africa, and his elite military training in the former Soviet Union and also in France. | | | Making democratic history, Malians witnessed for the first time one constitutionally elected leader handing power to another duly elected president. |
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| | Arrested on May 8, 1945, he was released in March 1946 and a month later founded the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto, which advocated cooperation with France in the formation of the Algerian state. | | | He played an important role in the formation of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and in 1946 he became its chairman in the British occupation zone. | | | When national parties developed, he affiliated himself with the Democratic Republicans, the forerunner of the Democratic Party. |
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| | MODERN HISTORY - WWII TO 1993: During 1946 Oubangui-Chari became an overseas territory of France. | | | It is bound by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) and Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west. | | | PEOPLE: The Central African Republic has over 80 ethnic groups, of which the major ethnic group are the Baya who account for 34% of the population followed by the Banda who account for 25%, the Sara for 7%, the Nabandi for 11%, the Azande for 10% and the Mbaka for 5%. |
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| | Ba represents the Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally (US-RDA), which guided Mali to independence from France in 1960 and was the sole party until 1968 when the Democratic Union of the Malian People (UDPM) became the sole party. | | | Liberal Democrat president Robert Maclennan tonight unveiled a package of legislation he believes could effect comprehensive constitutional reform. | | | If the opposition Labour Party wins the election, and judging by their 20-point lead in opinion polls it is likely to do so, it has promised a referendum on an elected non-legislative assembly for Wales. |
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| | Voltaic Democratic Union was a political party in present-day Burkina Faso that advocated for the independence of Upper Volta from France. | | | Voltaic Democratic Union ( UDV) was a political party in present-day Burkina Faso that advocated for the independence of Upper Volta from France. | | | Find the Best Sites For voltaic democratic union With Starware |
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| | Even the more progressive Union Democratique du Manifeste Algérien (Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto), founded in 1946 by Ferhat Abbas (who later joined the FLN), while it advocated women’s emancipation in some areas, nonetheless stopped short of abandoning Muslim personal status laws. | | | A more recent development, particularly in the lead up to and aftermath of the 1997 and 1999 Algerian elections, has been the idea of "moderate" Islamist movements that remain within the law and respect "democratic" processes, as opposed to "extremists," understood, within this discursive framework, to be Islamists who make overt use of terrorism. | | | In August 1999, current Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika had granted pardons to a number of imprisoned or exiled Islamists and was engaged in an exchange of diplomatic visits with France. |
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| | African Party for Democracy and Socialism; African Party of Independence; Alliance of Forces of Progress; Democratic and Patriotic Convention; Democratic League-Labour Party Movement; Front for Socialism and Democracy; Gainde Centrist Bloc; Independence and Labour Party; National Democratic Rally; Senegalese Democratic Party; Socialist Party; SOPI Coalition; Union for Democratic Renewal. | | | Senegal g ained independence from France in 1960 and became a Republic in 1963 | | | Senegal, with the support of the international donor community undertook a bold economic reform program in 1994. |
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| | Djibo Ka, leader of the opposition Union for Democratic Renewal (URD) party accused Wade's government of being behind last month's hammer attack on Sylla. | | | The country has had a multi-party political system since independence from France in 1960, which has never been disrupted by military coups or the imposition of a one-party state. | | | The demonstrators were also protesting at arson attacks over the past three years on the headquarters of the National Confederation of Workers (CNT) trade union movement, the PSD/Jant Bi opposition party and the independent Wal Fadjri radio and newspaper group and the killing of a student in 2001. |
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| | Djibo Ka, leader of the opposition Union for Democratic Renewal (URD) party accused Wade's government of being behind last month's hammer attack on Sylla. | | | The country has had a multi-party political system since independence from France in 1960, which has never been disrupted by military coups or the imposition of a one-party state. | | | Habre to remain in Senegal pending decision by African Union, 27/Nov/05 |
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| | France, after all, and Germany are democracies, and they could make trouble within a Democratic Union as they have within the Security Council. | | | Countries that did not wish to adopt such institutions would not be coerced, but since their dysfunctional political and economic systems were more often than not the source of their poverty and civil disorder, I argued that the Democratic Union should not subsidize the pallid economic logic of autocracy. | | | And the current administration seems to think of foreign policy as a series of unilateralist-wrought epiphanies to which the other countries of the world will pay obeisance, not caring whether their own interests and views are taken into account. |
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| | A former French colony, Mali receives assistance from France, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China, as well as international financial institutions. | | | Who Really Rules: President Moussa Traore, head of the single legal party, the Democratic Union of Malian People, has held power since he led a 1968 military coup. | | | The regime is unpopular among the impoverished population, and there has been active opposition among students, labor, and former members of the Union Soudanaise, the party in power before 1968. |
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| | In its press release dated August 28, 2000 the Liberal Democratic Party, a major political force in France, reported the Party's Chairman, Alain Madelin, had taken a trip through Vietnam in early August to visit a number of dissidents here. | | | The Liberal Democratic Party worked for the release of Dr. Nguyen Thanh Giang in 1999 by convincing the European Parliament to send Dr. Giang the "Passport de la Liberte'" as its declaration of support for the prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. | | | Alain Madelin currently serves as the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Representative of the Ille and Villaine areas, and the Mayor of Redon City. |
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| | Union of the Center (see also: Politics of France) | | | Union Démocratique du Centre, the Swiss People's Party (see also: Politics of Switzerland) |
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| | The current African Union mission of 2,400 troops is too small to proactively protect civilians throughout Darfur, a region the size of France. | | | The United Nations, the African Union, the European Union and NATO all have a critical role to play in rapidly boosting protection for the people of Darfur, Human Rights Watch said. | | | Human Rights Watch also urged members of the African Union to: |
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| | Voltaic Democratic Union ( UDV) was a political party in present-day Burkina Faso that advocated for the independence of Upper Volta from France. | | | Voltaic Democratic Union bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon | | | Major nuclear facilities of the world, by country (and for pages not yet built, external links). |
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