Already, the armed groups' activity and a pervasive drought have displaced hundreds of thousands of Malians.
Already, the armed groups' activity, along with a pervasive drought, has left hundreds of thousands of Malians displaced.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accusing Arab and Western countries of backing the armed groups.
And you know, the acronyms of the armed groups tend to change, but the same people tend to be in insurgencies.
The armed groups are calling for a political isolation law to be passed banning officials who served under the late Muammar Gaddafi from senior government posts.
Libya's interim prime minister has been branded "an obstacle to the revolution" by some of the armed groups that are furiously jockeying for power in post-Gaddafi Tripoli.
Uribe's efforts have been focused on combating all the armed groups that control all facets of illicit drug production in Colombia, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"The important thing is that two of the armed groups signed a ceasefire agreement, laying the basis of us moving quicker to stopping the fight in Burundi, " he told the BBC Focus on Africa programme.
Another flaw was that the initial assessment of the armed groups underestimated their capability as what a senior French diplomat called a "well armed, equipped, trained and determined" force, which apparently tried to hold ground in terrain usually defined by skirmishes and ambushes.
New legislation will require U.S. companies to disclose the use of certain minerals, including tantalum, in their products and to describe the process used to ensure the purchase of these minerals does not fund the illegally armed groups operating in the DRC.
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For one thing, the 17 armed groups who have made ceasefires with the government are still holding their arms.
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The United Nations wants to use drones to enhance the capabilities of peacekeepers monitoring the movement of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The continued insecurity due to the presence of armed groups and the proliferation of arms as well as a general break down of law and order have lead to massive poaching.
Refocusing the mission on eradicating the worst armed groups, demobilizing rank-and-file combatants and helping to reform Congo's army would go much further than the present mandate.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has restrained the hands of the most militant of the armed Shia groups, such as Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.
It is as if the old ghosts of the "dirty war" came back from the sands of Mali to haunt Algiers, bringing home the spectre of armed groups which it had taken the Algerian army a decade of great efforts to expel.
Girls made up 40% of the children taken by armed groups during the war yet the vast majority remain unaccounted for, Amnesty says.
Our correspondent says the number of confrontations between the armed forces and the rebel groups, which the authorities call "narco-terrorists", is increasing.
"Both sides called on the Syrian government and all armed groups of the opposition to immediately agree to daily humanitarian pauses in order to allow ICRC and Syria's Society of Red Crescent access to the wounded and other civilians who need to be evacuated, " the statement read.
The amount of money armed groups make off three of the main conflict minerals (tin, tantalum and tungsten) has dropped 65% over the past two years, according to a report released earlier this month, which attributes the decrease both to the efforts of the tech industry and to new legislation.
Besides the unforgiving terrain, the presence of land mines and the existence of numerous armed groups virtually prevent outsiders from visiting the area.
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Perhaps emboldened by liberation in Tunisia and Libya, in January 2012, the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine, the most prominent Tuareg armed groups, launched a rebellion that pushed the government from northern Mali.
With neighboring Algeria and Libya full of weapons and violent movements of their own, Tunisia is struggling to prevent the growth of armed groups while making its own tentative transition to democracy.
Mr. DINO MAHTANI (Reporter, Financial Times): Usually, in the Niger Delta, you have a series of armed groups who crawl the swamps and the rivers, tapping into pipelines, emptying well heads, and bunkering ships.
Yemenis tend to say that, compared with the Houthis, the danger from armed jihadist groups is exaggerated.
An escalation of the conflict may lead to the involvement of Afghan armed groups, expanding it quantitatively and qualitatively.
The pro-integration armed groups, in turn, use this to argue that they cannot disarm unilaterally, thus creating an intricate situation.
Bashar Jaafari, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters Thursday that armed groups had eight violations of the cease-fire that resulted in several deaths Thursday.
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