Abstract. Today, Africa is laced with some of the most obstinate conflicts, most of them constructed from differences in religious and ethnic identities.

An introduction to how issues about Africa are covered, the legacy of colonialism and some additional context for many of Africa’s woes.

Conflict between East-Indian and Blacks in Triniman and Guyana Socially, Economically and Politically

National identity is one’s identity or sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. It is the sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language and politics.

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at some of the conflicts occurring in Africa. There is hardly any media coverage and yet there have been millions of refugees and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.

The role of religion in civil unrest and war: Often, the media does not identify the precise causes of some of the conflicts around the world. Clashes are frequently described as being ethnic in origin, even though religion may have been a main cause.

India is characterized by more ethnic and religious groups than most other countries of the world. Aside from the much noted 2000-odd castes, there are eight “major” religions, 15-odd languages spoken in various dialects in 22 states and nine union territories, and a substantial number of tribes and sects.

It is not the first time that ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been portrayed as criminals. In the flick “Yellow Sea” (2010), the main character is an ethnic Korean-Chinese contract killer.

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 1999/2001 in the former Yugoslavia.These wars accompanied and facilitated the breakup of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic ities in the new …

From North Korea to Venezuela, here are the conflicts to watch in 2018.