Since Yemen and Djibouti were not involved in the War on Terror, and no attempt was made to arrest the men in the convoy before killing them, the attack was protested as a extrajudicial execution and a violation of human rights.

Since the turn of the millennium the district has seen a string of high-profile abductions, robberies, and other cases of violent crime.

Since the end of civil war in 2002 Freetown has experienced an increase in robberies, murders, home invasion, and assault.

Since then, Adam has been traveling the country, killing surviving members of the Church and masking the murders as suicides in order to motivate further suicides.

Since the invasion Mandaeans, like other Iraqi ethno-religious minorities ( such as Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidi, Roma and Shabaks ), have been subjected to violence, including murders, kidnappings, rapes, evictions, and forced conversions.

Since the 1970s, Gull has been linked to the unsolved 1888 Whitechapel murders ( Jack the Ripper ) case.

Since the late 1970s and 1980s men's rights activists have asserted, based on academic studies, that the incidence of domestic violence and murders committed by women is under-reported, partly due to men's reluctance to admit being victims.

Since 2002, News From Indian Country has broken stories related to the investigation of murders during the 1970s at the Oglala Sioux Tribe Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Since Candide is wanted for the murders of the two Portuguese, he is forced to leave her in Buenos Aires.

Since the letter " Z " is known in common phonetic use as " Zebra ," the group became known as the Zebra task force, and the murders became known as the Zebra murders.

Since Aran ' gar channels using saidin, she was able to avoid detection from all of the Aes Sedai around her, until the existence of a woman able to channel saidin was connected to the murders of Anaiya and Kairen Sedai ; she and Delana escaped before either could be taken and shielded.

Since Byomkesh isn't interested in cases involving petty thefts or murders as they don't provide much space to exercise his intelligence, most of the times he remains at home idling away his time in newspapers and his personal library.

Since the late nineteenth century, the South used a colloquial term, the one-drop rule, to classify as black a person of any known African ancestry.

Since World War II, Ethiopia has played an active role in world and African affairs.

Since 1994 the party system is dominated by the socialist African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde and the Party for Social Renewal.

Since then some southern African countries have had their populations of elephants " downlisted " to Appendix Two allowing sale of some stockpiles.

Since the ivory ban some southern African countries have claimed their elephant populations are stable or increasing and argued that ivory sales would support their conservation efforts.

* Since its 1824 renaming in his honor, the capital city of the West African country of Liberia has been named Monrovia.

Since these sites could not be classified as Mesopotamian, North African, or Arabian, they came to be referred to as " Levantine.

Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Since the fall of the Eastern European communist regimes, the Soviet Union, and a variety of African communist regimes, only a few currently remain, including: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Since its creation the Nigerian military has fought in a civil war – the conflict with Biafra in 1967 – 70 – and sent peacekeeping forces abroad both with the United Nations and as the backbone of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Cease-fire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

Since the end of apartheid in the 1990s the African National Congress ( ANC ) has dominated South Africa's politics.

Since the mid-20th Century, many cookbooks highlighting soul food and African American foodways, compiled by African Americans, have been published and well received.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, the term has tended to acquire acquired a negative connotation, and in much academic discourse become shorthand for Western feelings of superiority over, and overlooking of the views of, Asian and North African cultures.

Since 2003, when President François Bozizé came to power, thousands of citizens of the Central African Republic have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the escalating conflict between armed rebels and government troops.

Since the 1960s, with the latest developments on commercial aviation, the highest ranked football teams of Mozambique and the other African overseas provinces of Portugal, started to compete in the Taça de Portugal ( the Portuguese Cup ).

Since that time, large North African communities settled in and around the big cities, particularly Marseille and Toulon.

Since then, African famines become more frequent, more widespread and more severe until the turn of the 21st Century.

Since being introduced by Portuguese traders from Brazil in the 16th century, maize and cassava have replaced traditional African crops as the continent ’ s most important staple food crops.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa's new government has been cold towards Israel and critical of Israel's policies towards Palestinians, but ignored calls from pro-Palestinian civil South African groups to sever relations between the two countries.

" Since the mid-1990s African artists have also been very active through the super-group Africando, where African and New York musicians mix with leading African singers such as Bambino Diabate, Ricardo Lemvo, Ismael Lo and Salif Keita.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Since the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, America's policy had been to allow Native Americans to remain east of the Mississippi as long as they became assimilated or " civilized ".

Since the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico by the Americans during the Spanish – American War, politics in Puerto Rico have been significantly shaped by its status as territory of the United States.

" Since there are at present no such untaxed Native Americans ( Indians ), all persons inhabiting a state — whether citizens or not — count towards the population of that state in determining the state's congressional apportionment.

Since the establishment of America ’ s first historic site at Washington ’ s Revolutionary headquarters at Hasbrouck House in New York State, Americans have found a penchant for preserving similar historical structures.

Since the end of World War II, there has been debate over the terminology used to refer to Manzanar, and the other camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents, were incarcerated by the United States Government during the war.

Since usage of the word " eh " is not as common in the United States as it is in Canada, it is often used by Americans, and indeed Canadians themselves, to parody Canadian English.

Since the 1970s, West Colfax Avenue through west Denver, Northeast Lakewood, Edgewater has had a high reputation and population of Mexican Americans as well as other Latino immigrants.

Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has bestowed an annual award on " outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity " and scholarships " to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance ".

Since Chinese Americans were already nearly half the student population, the consent decree had the effect of requiring competitive Lowell high school to apply much higher academic admission standards for Chinese American students than other students.

Since the Americans had a much larger air force than the Soviet Union, and the United States maintained advance air bases near Soviet territory, in 1947 Stalin ordered the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) in order to counter the perceived American threat.

Since this time, AIDS deaths have continued to decline, but much more slowly, and not as completely in black Americans as in other population segments.

Since then several Mexican Americans have served as county commissioners and in other county and local offices.

Since 1790, Native Americans in the southern states were enumerated as " free persons of color " on the local and federal census, included with African Americans.

Since 1990, in the United States, physical anthropology and archaeological investigations based on the study of human remains are complicated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, ( NAGPRA ), which provides for the bodies of Native Americans and associated grave goods to be turned over to the recognized tribal body most legally affiliated with the remains.

Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.

Since the Lenape people, like all Native Americans, had no immunity to European diseases, when the populations contacted the epidemics, they frequently proved fatal.

Since the colonial period, Americans have been noted for their individualism and their pursuit of self-definition.

Since many of the genes are also implicated in other autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes -- and treatments have already been developed that target these genes -- this discovery may soon lead to new treatments for the 5. 3 million Americans suffering from hair loss caused by alopecia areata.

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

Since they had received a favorable response to African American characters they had previously done on radio, Gosden and Correll proposed that the principal characters be African Americans, Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, newly arrived in Chicago from rural Alabama.

Since 1950, Americans have won approximately half of the Nobel Prizes awarded in the sciences.

Since the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which granted citizenship rights to Mexican people in the newly conquered US territory of the South West, Mexican Americans have been legally considered " White.