1.   Dagestan has long been the site of clashes between Russian forces and armed clans in a spillover from the fighting in Chechnya.

2.   How much control he wields with the rebel forces and armed clans is unknown.

3.   The most significant addition is a long sequence on an isolated plantation operated by an armed French clan.

4.   Swaths of Yemen, the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula, remain lawless and are ruled by armed tribal clans.

5.   The country has disintegrated into fiefdoms guarded by armed clan militias.

6.   A vicious banana war has broken out in Somalia amid the clashes of well armed clans.

7.   The situation is further complicated by the indisciplined nature of the local militia and armed clans who do not always follow the orders of more senior commanders.

8.   Shortly afterwards, he named a government, which is not recognised by other armed Somali clan factions or the international community.