It was meant to heal the wounds of ethnic division.
A sectarian and ethnic division of the country loomed.
But once the old man had gone, the country succumbed to coups, chaos and ethnic division.
Ethnic division is at the core of tension in Jos; religion adds fuel to the fire.
You have a quite complex division in terms of ethnic division and then you've got backgrounds of rural, urban.
The ethnic division has shown up in obviously polarizing issues, like what the national language should be.
The effort to bridge ethnic division in Bosnia, which is beginning to work, could be set back.
To say that the Bedford school budget was voted down because of ethnic division is totally without fact.
What we see across all of these cases is that in every country there are persistent tensions between social-welfare provisions and issues of immigration or ethnic division.
His predecessor did the same.War and peaceWhat Mr Rajapaksa means to do about Sri Lanka's biggest problem, the ethnic division between Tamils and Sinhalese, is also uncertain.
The government's indiscriminate crackdown, led by troops from the south, let them close a long-standing ethnic division in northern Nigeria between Kanuris and the dominant Hausa-Fulani.
