A faction of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), with its backer, Rwanda, has been steadily moving westwards from its eastern strongholds, gaining control over more and more territory, and cutting off government-controlled cities in provinces that can now be reached only by air.
The permits are granted on a daily basis but the labourers work on the farms for the whole winter.The effect of these measures is the steady migration of Palestinians westwards from the valley to urban areas such as East Jerusalem and Nablus.
The biggest challenge in 2013 in Africa, for its governments and the West's alike, will be to turn back a tide of extremism, especially as al-Qaeda moves westwards from the Middle East into the sands of the Sahara.
There is the avenue running westwards from the Brandenburg Gate, the east-west axis now called Strasse des 17.
Our chart traces the comet's motion from 20 December as it climbs northwards and westwards from the southern constellation of Columba the Dove.
A family – a mother, her teenage daughter, her young son and an elephant called Marlene – flee westwards from the holocaust and from the advancing Russian armies.
Other dangers and nuisances that can leak westwards from a badly governed Ukraine include pollution (remember Chernobyl?) and diseases (tuberculosis is rampant).
He puts the current mass arrival down to unusual weather conditions, with following winds helping the moths as they flew westwards from their eastern European breeding grounds.
PLeslie Tallin's beautiful buildings silhouetted against the autumn skies take your breath away when looking westwards from the numerous vantage points along the old city walls.
Rates of migration westwards from the new members of the EU, in 2004 and since, far exceeded the expectations of most experts and officials.
