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Some 400,000 refugees – many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels – have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon’s delicate social and political balance.

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We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

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