insurgency

But she has also emerged as an often lonely voice on the Board of Supervisors against a far-right insurgency that has roiled her county.

Women in Somalia - which has suffered a long civil war and a more recent Islamist insurgency - have long played a vital role in peacebuilding, often stepping into leadership roles and pushing for greater political participation.

Both were childhood friends who had sheltered together in the same camp in 2009 during the height of the insurgency in Mogadishu - he was someone he could trust.

Sikh separatism - rooted in a bloody insurgency in India during the 1980s and early ’90s - continues to strain relations between the two countries.

The region has witnessed a violent insurgency against Indian rule for more than three decades, resulting in thousands of deaths.