This week, he reiterated the need to enforce national identification laws, which have deprived many northerners of citizenship.
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She was among the many northerners who descended upon the southern Vietnamese metropolis under the 1954 Geneva Accords, which split the country.
Many northerners voted for him because he was a Muslim or because most of them are as poor as any southern Nigerian, despite the north's wealthy and powerful upper class.
The north has ruled Nigeria since independence (a southerner was in charge for just six years), but the rioting after Abiola's death is said to have persuaded many northerners that it is time to cede power.
Canadians are starting to debate whether the main aim of policy towards the north should be the assertion of sovereignty, and thus spending big money on military kit, or trying to improve the dire social conditions in which people live there, as many northerners would like.
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Dorji laughs when I suggest that the hair cut was exactly the sort of act repeated many times by northerners that fueled the exodus.
Northerners say many never left, thanks to southern census record keepers who allegedly helped economic migrants acquire false documents.
But as city dwellers, Northerners, people all across the country, and many chefs have discovered how good real barbecue is, it has spread like wildfire and there is now good to even great barbecue in most parts of the country.
However many see this as a coup that is pro-Ouattara and pro-northerners.
For many years the communities lived in mutual isolation and for the most part the northerners viewed the southerners as useful servants, certainly not equals.
The northerners respond that it was army rule, not northern rule, that ruined the country, though many concede that it would not be bad if a southerner could be found to be the next president.
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