Since then, no breakaway movement has ever succeeded.
In the last elections, in 2004, Swapo won 75percentt of the vote, but this time a breakaway group — campaigning against government corruption — may prove a more effective challenge.
Bimal Gurung, the leader of the breakaway group, led a campaign to support for Mr. Tamang, who won the singing competition.
She said that Russia's military campaign in the breakaway republic has had a "tragic cost in human lives and a high cost to Russia's world standing".
The Russian leader gave a spirited defense of the military campaign in the breakaway southern Chechnya region, comparing rebel forces there to "Nazi criminals".
As "Colonel Roosevelt" describes how Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign, via the breakaway Progressive Party, managed to hobble the Republican Taft and elect a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, this book is at its most intensively political.
Mrs. Robinson began today by touring refugee camps in neighboring Ingushetia, where more than 200,000 Chechens have fled since the Russian military began its campaign in their breakaway home region last fall.
The daylight attack was also a challenge to Acting President Vladimir V. Putin, whose popularity stems in part from his decision to mount a military campaign to subdue the breakaway republic.
A12 Missing in Chechnya A Russian major general was reported missing in Chechnya, becoming a symbol of the difficulties that Russian troops have encountered in their campaign to take the breakaway republic's capital, Grozny.
Written by Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani reporter, and printed in the UK's Sunday Times, it exposed for the first time the scale of the Pakistan army's brutal campaign to suppress its breakaway eastern province in 1971.
The Iraqi government is waging a wide-scale military campaign against the Al Qaeda breakaway faction, which has overrun large swaths of Iraqi territory.
