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In this era of serial marriages, he warns that the most unstable and strife-prone families are stepfamilies, when one parent is not the biological relative of the resident offspring.

"People wouldn't recognize their mosque today," said Sheik Akrim al-Dulaimi, a Sunni imam in the strife-prone Baghdad neighborhood of Dawra.

The group has maintained throughout that its aim was to rescue children it took to be orphaned by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, across Chad's ethnically strife-prone eastern border.

To better inform and prepare providers and officials, not only in Kenya but in other strife-prone nations with high rates of HIV infection, authors call for further research and attention to planning.

STRIFE-prone Newman Government MP Ros Bates is in more hot water, accused of misleading parliament and breaking the law by falsely claiming she is a registered nurse.

Not so with Izzat Ghafouri Baban, a Kurdish trumpeter who lives in what he calls a "filthy place": the strife-prone northeast neighborhood of Shaab, also under the sway of Mr. Sadr's Mahdi Army.

They said it is the prospect of mass departure of large numbers of people whose roots are in neighboring African nations, who were drawn by the lure of plentiful jobs in Ivory Coast's once-booming economy, that poses the greatest threat to the stability of a strife-prone region.