There are at least a dozen ethnic minority tribes in the area, each with its own distinct clothing, arts and crafts, cuisines, textiles and music.

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Home Secretary Akbar Durrani told AFP the bombings were in an area dominated by the minority Shia Muslim community.

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Over the weekend the rebels, who say they are protecting the area's Tutsi minority, captured a major army camp at Rumangabo and the headquarters of Virunga national park.

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But more needed to be done, so the education minister Catherine Ashton was making sure that minority achievement was addressed in every policy area, says the government.

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Rapper Jay-Z is the most famous celebrity minority sports owner in the New York metropolitan area with a stake in the Brooklyn Nets.

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By 2011, it was statistically in the minority - just 49% of people in the area described themselves as white and British.

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He says most of the Serb population want to see the return of ordinary policing, and that they are being intimidated by a criminal minority who are intent on keeping control of the area.

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The Boise metro area already has a population that is 17% ethnic minority, mostly Hispanic or Asian.

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But I then traveled up to the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, a largely Tajik area, and there people were voting in significant numbers, not least because the Tajiks are a minority, want to, try to acquire a block of power in parliament to counterbalance what they say is a Pashtun-governated Karzai administration in Afghanistan.

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