The Southern Movement's evolving nature and the diversity of participants has prevented it from developing clear aims or demands.
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The alliance of these two important figures, from rural-ex-Marxist and urban-tribal backgrounds, will help galvanise the broad-based nature of the Southern Movement.
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Nonetheless, Mr Bidh was nominated as leader of the Southern Movement at a meeting in Zinjibar, in southern Yemen, hosted by Mr Fadhli.
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Three MPs who are also members of the Southern Movement are being pushed into the arms of the southern alliance by the government.
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The nomination of a leader for the Southern Movement is an important step towards creating a coherent and organised group capable of mounting a sustained push for independence.
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It has given up its ambitious idea of promoting a genuinely national electoral strategy, which could have seen the southern movement leading a broad alliance of all of Sudan's oppressed ethnic groups in Darfur, in the south and in the east against the ruling NCP in Khartoum.
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Yemen has complained to the Council about a seized weapons shipment it says was sent by Iran whom it claims is supporting a southern separatist movement.
Zarifi says he's seen more activity than ever this winter from the resurgent Taliban movement in Southern Afghanistan.
Last month, it sought to restrict exports of rare earth minerals to Japan, made overtures to a secession movement in southern Sudan, and wr estled with the G20 over its currency and trade imbalance.
Prof Coker, author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, says the idea that consumption of alcohol is sinful is deeply embedded in the southern evangelical mind.
The civil-rights movement swept away many southern traditions, but none that anyone should mourn.
Meanwhile, southern rebel leaders have allowed their movement to fracture along ethnic lines.
Mr Bashir let the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the main southern group, reshuffle its ministers, but it refused to rejoin the government unless the north implemented its side of the agreement on issues such as troop withdrawal and boundary demarcations.
The political leadership of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement are due to meet next week to decide whether to back Omar al-Bashir for the presidency in April 2010, or to put up their own candidates in conjunction with a range of northern political parties.
The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which controls most of southern Sudan, has already printed 60 tonnes of the new notes, and last week rumour had it they were about to issue them.
The southern - the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement, which is the major force in the south, essentially had enough and withdrew its representatives from the government, from the Government of National Unity, said that al-Bashir must follow through or they're no longer going to participate in the Government of National Unity.
There is currently a movement afoot for part of northern California and southern Oregon to secede from their states and form the state of Jefferson.
The discussions, held in Kenana, in White Nile state, have the broad support of the southern ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and some northern opposition parties.
According to his official biography on the Lebanese army Web site, Suleiman worked closely with the armed wing of the Shiite movement Hezbollah to counter the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.
Openly criticizing the Civil Rights movement is a mortal sin for politicians, even southern Republicans who obviously attempt to capitalize on lingering racial animus.
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More recently, when the conflict in southern Thailand re-erupted in 2004, the shadowy insurgent movement found refuge by blending in with the people of the neighboring Malaysian state of Kelantan, who speak a virtually identical dialect and share a similarly proud royal heritage their two sultanates having intermarried through the ages.
Joseph Lowery has been a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1950s, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King.
The movement is led by a single mother of three from the southern township of Mitzpe Ramon, Vicki Knafo, who walked the 120 miles to Jerusalem and is now encamped in a tent outside the ministry of finance.
One of the most obvious among them is the deeply religious, mostly Southern Baptist, elements that provided the moral foundation of the U.S. movement.
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Still to come, pride and heritage, we'll talk with two proud Mississippians with very different backgrounds: A fashion designer, who showcases his southern roots in New York, and one of the giants of the civil rights movement.
Another important figure within the movement is Tareq al-Fadhli, an Islamic tribal sheikh and head of a prominent southern family.
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As executive director and founding member of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), she leads a movement of 80, 000 human rights activists who seek to improve the everyday lives of the southern African nation's women.
The implications of such an outcome could be far-reaching for the integrity of our southern frontier, illegal immigration, drug-trafficking, terrorism, trade and the radical "reconquista" movement (which is intent on "taking back" at least parts of the United States for Mexico).
An email purportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said it was responsible for the ambush in southern Nigeria on Friday.
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