separatist
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Farmers and herders clash over land in the centre of the country while a simmering separatist movement festers in the southeast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
But in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election in February she said it was "appalling that separatist campaigning was carried out in Urdu by the Green Party".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The West African country remains in a security crisis more than a week after an alliance of jihadists and separatist rebels launched their nationwide raids.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Forces at Mali's Tessalit military base, a "super-camp" near the Algerian border, surrendered and were scattering southward, an official from the Tuareg-dominated FLA separatist group told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
To win the Cherokees to their side, British authorities provided weaponry and money, while separatist representatives threatened the towns with complete destruction if they did not remain neutral.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Stimson was previously jailed in the UK in 2015 for joining pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
When a judge dealt another blow to separatists in May, Smith appealed the ruling and called the referendum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While she is correct that the separatists who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 eschewed the pejorative term Puritan, she errantly suggests that they called themselves Pilgrims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
But an Alberta judge shut down the process, saying the citizens' initiative was invalid because the separatists had failed to consult with Indigenous groups whose rights could be threatened if the province separated from Canada.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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