Peul
Americannoun
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Peuls,
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Peul
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Many Peul feel they have been marginalised by successive governments - a member of their community has never been president.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2013
There have been tensions between the country's two largest ethnic groups - the Peul and Malinke - and these came to a fore during the 2010 presidential election.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2013
Conde, from the second most populous ethnic group, the Peul, took slightly more than 18 percent.
From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2010
Both belong to large ethnic groups -- Malinke and Peul respectively -- in a vote that may divide on ethnic lines.
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2010
Mr. Diallo is of the country’s leading ethnic group, the Peul, which makes up nearly 40 percent of the population, and spent 11 years as a minister.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2010
They built their villages on high ground, with cliffs for lookouts and caves to hide in, and for centuries battled the Fula, or Peuls, who make up about 25 percent of Senegal’s population.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2021
Since protests resumed on Thursday, hundreds of police have been deployed to Conakry districts inhabited by ethnic Peuls loyal to the opposition, without succeeding in restoring calm.
From Reuters ● May 29, 2013
It took him three days to traverse the desert between Bondou and the districts beyond the Gambia, after which he penetrated into Niokolo, a mountainous country, inhabited by the all but wild Peuls and Djallons.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
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