Examples of using Mandingo in English and their translations into Russian
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Britney Stevens vs Mandingo.
Dr. Mandingo, you're needed at the plantation house.
Can you convincingly masquerade as someone who's an expert on mandingo fighting?
Hey, Dr. Mandingo, ask the wife if she's been messing around?
The Muslim population is mainly found among the Mandingo and the Val ethnic groups.
Skirmishes between Krahn and Mandingo elements of ULIMO impeded the distribution of assistance in Cape Mount and Bomi counties.
There also is a strong rift between the Krahn and Mandingo elements of LURD.
In the Gambia, Mandingo is spoken as a first language by 38% of the population, Fula is spoken by 21.2%, Wolof/ Serer by 18%, Jola by 4.5.
The conflict escalated when ULIMO Krahn and Mandingo groups clashed in the town of Tubmanburg.
There are 16 major ethnic groups in Liberia: Bassa, Belle, Dahn(Gio), Dei, Gbandi, Gola, Grebo, Kissi, Kpelle, Krahn, Krao(Kru),Lorma, Mandingo, Mahn(Mano), Mende, and Vai.
The second issue is a land dispute between Mandingo and Gio ethnic groups in Saniquellie and Ganta, Nimba County.
The seat was won by the sole running candidate, who belongs to the Mandingo ethnic group.
The majority of this trade is controlled by Mandingo and Fulani traders who repatriate capital through informal banking mechanisms.
They came from different ethnic groups: the Lukumí, Carabalí, Congo,Ganga, Mandingo, Mina, Bibi and Yoruba.
At Voinjama, in Lofa County, the Mandingo and Lorma ethnic groups are contesting ownership of land and other property which returning Mandingos claim they left behind when they fled during the war.
Other groups are the Kono and Kissi in the East,the Koranko, Mandingo, Loko, Susu, Fullah and Yalunka are in the North.
A rift between the Chairman andthe Field Commander resulted in an outbreak of fighting among the ULIMO forces, along ethnic lines, between the Krahn and Mandingo factions.
Goods from these sites are almost certainly purchased by Maraka and Mandingo buyers and traded in neighbouring countries.
These groups have been known to raid marketplaces and internally displaced persons(IDP)camps in search of"dissidents" or their"collaborators", mostly young men of the Krahn and Mandingo ethnic groups.
Since my report of 24 June(S/1994/760), fighting has continued in the west between the Krahn and Mandingo elements of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia ULIMO.
French is the official language of the Republic of Senegal, but six other national languages are spoken and are recognized in the Constitution, namely, Wolof, Peul,Serer, Mandingo, Diola, Sarakole/Soninke.
The independent media, human rights defenders and ethnic minorities,particularly ethnic Mandingo, Krahn and Gbandi groups, have also come under sustained and virulent attacks from government agents.
The ethnic groups, in alphabetical order, are: Bassa, Belle, Dahn(Gio), Dei, Gbandi, Gola, Grebo, Kissi, Kpelle, Krahn, Krao(Kru),Lorma, Mandingo, Mahn(Mano), Mende, and Vai.
In furtherance of the spirit of national reconciliation, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hosted a celebratory dinner to mark the end of Ramadan,which was attended by Muslim leaders, members of the Mandingo ethnic group and former warring faction leaders, including Sekou Damate Conneh of the former Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy and Alhaji Kromah of the former United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia.
There are also sixteen major linguistic/ethnic groups namely: Bassa, Belle, Dahn(Gio), Dei, Gbandi, Gola, Grebo, Kissi, Kpelle, Krahn, Krao(Kru),Lorma, Mandingo, Mahn(Mano) Mende and Vai.
The Krahn ethnic stock of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia has said that it will continue to fight the Mandingo ethnic stock of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia as long as the recommendations of persons made by the Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia(who is Mandingo) to high-level posts in the Liberia National Transitional Government continues to hold.
However the suspension of the Paramount Chief continued to generate tensions between the Limba and Mandingo ethnic groups in the community.
In a worrying development, religious and ethnic tensions erupted in some northern parts of the country between the Fula andFelupe communities and in the East between the Fula and Mandingo communities.
At the same time, reconciliation efforts have continued in order to minimize tensions between ethnic groups,including the Mandingo, Mano and Gio peoples, as well as the Mande Mel tribal groups.
As I pointed out in my previous report(S/1994/588), prior to the installation of the Council of State, a dispute arose within the leadership of ULIMO, along ethnic lines,between Chairman Alhaji Kromah(Mandingo) and General Roosevelt Johnson(Krahn) over ULIMO nominees to the Council of State.