The new government also had to deal with rebel activity from several groups active in Jonglei and other states, which also was closely related to ethnic divides.
Examples include church-sponsored couples' education and support groups, civic groups active in supporting HIV-prevention activities (e.g. testing), and/or groups organized for economic self-help.
It bears noting that many of the groups active in the region are also engaged in lucrative transnational criminal activities such as kidnapping and smuggling.
He added that groups active in the late Nineties were re-emerging and forming new alliances.
Two environmental groups active in the region, Forest Guardians and the Southwest Center for Biodiversity, were unable to attend.
Lashkar is among the most hard-line of the militant groups active in a guerrilla war against India in Kashmir.
Soros has long been a controversial figure in Russia because of his financing of civil society groups active in protest movements.
One of the subversive groups active in the state is the John Birch Society, which Ronald Reagan, candidate for Governor, has refused to criticize.
Press reports on the 1998 United States missile strike against Osama bin Laden's camps there indicated that a number of casualties were from groups active in Kashmir.
Other Sunni insurgent groups active in the city are the Army of Islam, the Army of Muhammad and Ansar al-Islam, the group formerly based in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Soros and the Russian state have long been at odds: Soros has a history of funding civil society groups active in protest movements.
