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Army seizes power in Mauritania
2008-08-07 18:12:00 NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Army officers upset with government overtures toward Islamic hard-liners staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday, overthrowing the first government to be freely elected in this sprawling desert nation in more than 20 years. The coup in Africa’s newest oil producer took place after the president and prime minister fired the country’s top ...
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What To See On Your Holidays In Mauritania
2008-05-13 07:00:00 Mauritania is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world and is officially known as Mauritania’s Islamic Republic. This place is situated in the north-west of Africa and on its west is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and on the south-west by Senegal, to southeast and east by Mali and on its northwest ...
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Mauritania: farmers urged to grow food, cut imports
2008-05-06 15:47:00 Source: AlertNet ROSSO, Mauritania, May 6 (Reuters) - Mauritania’s president wants peasant farmers to cultivate more land and grow more food to reduce its overwhelming dependence on costly imports, and insists the Saharan country could one day be self-sufficient. Launching Mauritania’s 2008/09 agricultural season on Monday in Rosso, on the fertile northern bank of the Senegal river, ...
In Mauritania, Every Meal Is a Sacrifice
2008-04-28 05:18:00 NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania Even before he took a butcher knife to the she-goat's throat, Likbir Ould Mohamed Mahmoud knew it would only make things worse.
By: Get rich
Over 300 artists attend nomad music festival in Mauritania
2008-04-16 18:35:00 Source: APA Over 300 artists attend nomad music festival in Mauritania APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The 4th festival of nomad music opened Monday evening in Nouakchott with over 300 artists from Africa and Europe attending the occasion. Mauritanian artist Ousmane Guangue when performing during the opening gala expressed honour of being home after representing his country ...
One Man's Personal Mission To End Slavery in Mauritania
2008-03-23 03:09:00 Boubacar Messaoud remembered strolling from the flatlands of Mauritania toward the southern town of Rosso, a watermelon poised on his head. Beyond a riverbank, he could see a row of children in a yard.
By: Get rich
One Man's Personal Mission To End Slavery in Mauritania
2008-03-23 03:09:00 Boubacar Messaoud remembered strolling from the flatlands of Mauritania toward the southern town of Rosso, a watermelon poised on his head. Beyond a riverbank, he could see a row of children in a yard.
By: Get rich
Mauretania:Push on pupil numbers drives down quality
2008-03-12 19:34:00 Source: IRIN NEWS MAURITANIA:Push on pupil numbers drives down quality NOUAKCHOTT, 10 March (IRIN) - Mauritania is on track to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of enrolling all children in primary school, but government officials told IRIN education quality has plummeted. “We have children in the sixth class who cannot read or write,” said ...
Mauritanian fashion designer wants to develop the trade in her country
2008-02-23 23:32:00 Source: APA Mauritanian fashion designer wants to develop the trade in her country APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The purpose of the first night of Mauritanian fashion, recently organised in Nouakchott, was “to make the fashion in this country move as the public fashion shows are not recurrent,” the initiator of this cultural event, young fashion designer ...
Moizan to coach minnows Mauritania
2008-02-18 20:58:00 Frenchman Alain Moizan has been named coach of Mauritania, the national football association confirmed on Monday.
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Mauritania: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:27:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Mauritania - Annual Report 2008 Area : 1 025 520 km2. Population : 3 044 000. Languages : Arabic, French. Head of State : Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Freedom of press is alive and well in Mauritania, even if journalists in the capital Nouakchott face many complex challenges. The year 2007 was distinguished by a rare ...
AFP - Mauritania submits bird flu prevention plan at global conference
2008-02-07 00:00:00 October 5, 2006 -- NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) ? The government of Mauritania, considered a high-risk country for avian flu, has submitted a national prevention plan against...
Gunmen attack Israel embassy in Mauritania, 3 hurt
2008-02-02 12:53:00 By Daniel Flynn NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on Israel's embassy in Mauritania on Friday, wounding three bystanders including a French woman. The attack followed appeals by political parties for President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi to break off diplomatic relations with Israel to reflect anger in Mauritania over events in Gaza, which is under an Israeli blockade. Israel's ambassador said no embassy staff were hurt in the shooting in the early hours of Friday, which followed two attacks in late December by suspected al Qaeda militants in the former French colony straddling the western end of the Sahara. Some witnesses said the attackers, who numbered at least three, shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as they exchanged fire with guards at the fortified embassy in a tree-lined street of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott. Mauritania is one of three Arab countries to have relations with Israel, along with Egypt and Jordan. "This is ve...
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Gunmen attack Israeli embassy in Mauritania, 3 hurt
2008-02-02 12:43:00 By Daniel Flynn NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania early on Friday, wounding at least three people including a French woman outside a nearby nightclub, officials and witnesses said. No embassy staff were hurt in the shooting, the Israeli ambassador in Nouakchott said. Some witnesses said the attackers, who numbered at least three, shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as they exchanged fire with guards at the fortified embassy, located in a tree-lined street of the dusty Mauritanian capital. The attack followed recent public calls by political parties in Mauritania, an Islamic Republic which straddles black and Arab Africa, for the government to sever diplomatic ties with Israel. The western Saharan country is one of the few Arab League states to have relations with the Jewish state. The gunmen also sprayed bullets at a nightclub about 50 metres (yards) from the embassy on the same street, injuring its two Mauritanian ...
By: B4U India
Gunmen attack Israeli embassy in Mauritania - police
2008-02-02 12:31:00 NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott early on Friday, wounding some people, police and emergency services said. A bar near the embassy, in the centre of Nouakchott, was also hit by gunfire in the attack before the attackers fled, they said. It came just weeks after the Lisbon-Dakar rally was cancelled due to fears of an armed Islamist threat in the West African country following two attacks in late December in which four French tourists and some soldiers were killed.
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Islamic cowards attack Israeli embassy in Mauritania
2008-02-01 07:28:00 Surely the rest of the world including the UN will find some way to blame Israel for provoking the attack. JPost Unidentified gunmen attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott early on Friday, wounding some people, police and emergency services said. Eyewitnesses reported that the gunmen fired at the embassy compound while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” and ...
Al-Qaeda: Dakar Rally For Infidels, Slams Mauritania For Hosting Event
2008-01-04 20:30:00 Al-Qaeda has successfully intimidated the government of Mauritania to cancel plans to host the annual Dakar Rally. The Dakar is an annual off-road endurance race rather than a conventional rally. The terrain the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified sedans used in rallies. Most of the ...
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Girls? Education: The Role of Educational Policies in Mauritania and Guinea
2007-12-31 14:17:00 Source: World Bank Africa Region Findings 171 November 2000 Girls? Education: The Role of Educational Policies in Mauritania and Guinea Introduction This article analyzes the role of educational policies as a success factor for girls? education and focuses in two ...
MAURITANIA: Fistula - a medical and cultural problem
2007-12-26 15:55:00 See also the earlier post on Niger Source: IRIN NEWS MAURITANIA: Fistula - a medical and cultural problem NOUAKCHOTT, 25 December (IRIN) - Efforts to reduce cases of obstetric fistula in Mauritania have been slowed by local customs and beliefs. “Fistula is seen as a punishment,” said Jacques Milliez, a gynaecologist who travels to Mauritania twice a year as ...
Asesinados en Mauritania cuatro turistas franceses de una misma familia
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3 days - 1550 kms over Mauritania to Mali
2007-11-16 20:52:00 Friday, 9th. November 2007 Wake up with the sun, quick coffee and a breakfast at the downstairs restaurant Bahia and a internet stop. After this we’re leaving for the Mauritanian border with hopes that we can get a visa on the border… There is a new 300 kilometers long asphalt road since 2006 through Southern ...
On the way to Mauritania?
2007-11-09 11:19:00 Thursday, 8th. November 2007 We leave camp quite early with the mission to find a new BF Goodrich All Terrain 285/75/16R tire somewhere in West Saharan villages. Few kilometers away from our camping site we see a Slovenian car registration on the side of the road and meet another 2 Slovenians ~ again! Maja just got ...
A Testimony from Mauritania
2007-10-04 00:15:00 Day 23 for 5th October, coinciding with Ramadan 2007 / 1428 Soon after coming to faith in Christ Bokar told his Christian friends that he wanted to do away with a special undershirt, inscribed with Koranic passages and interwoven with dozens of amulets. Several Mauritanians were afraid and said the shirt could not be destroyed, that ...
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AUTRALIA: Petronas to Buy Woodside's Oil Assets in Mauritania
2007-09-27 08:12:00 Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia's state oil company, agreed to buy Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s assets in Mauritania for $418 million, boosting overseas revenue as output falls at home. Petronas, as the company is known, will take over 47 percent of the Chinguetti field, Mauritania's only oil-producing project, and stakes in areas including Tiof, Tevet and Banda. Woodside is considering options for its remaining African assets, it said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange today. The Malaysian company has spent more than $1.4 billion acquiring assets in Europe and Australia since January following a second year of decline in domestic production. Woodside is selling its assets after output in Chinguetti fell short of estimates and the company resolved a dispute with the Mauritanian government over oil licenses. ``Petronas has been expanding their reach beyond Malaysian shores,'' said Patrick Chang, who helps manage $...
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Through Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali
2007-09-09 18:37:00 Through Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, MaliRabat, MoroccoSeptember 10, 2007http://canciondelvagabundo.-googlepages.com/Below is a map of my intended route of travel through deserts, mountains, and whatever Africa is like in Senegal and southern Mauritania. I read that the overland route from Western Sahara to Mauritania is possible, but I cannot find a coastal road on this map. My hope is to meet up with a bunch of camper van travellers and hitch a ride with them. But this is not very likely, so I will just go down there and find out what happens. This is what travelling is all about, no?Eight years of round the world vagabond travel.
Breaking News:Mauritanian Exiles File Lawsuit Against Former Dictator For E
2007-05-27 15:06:00 Taya in trouble!!! For Immediate Release: Mauritanian Exiles File Lawsuit Against Former Dictator For Ethnic Cleansing May 23, 2007 New York, NY - Mauritanian exiles living in New York filed a class action lawsuit today against Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya, for the crimes committed during a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Black Mauritanians from 1989 to 1991. The lawsuit was filed ...
Lawsuit filed against Mauritanian dictator for ethnic cleansing
2007-05-23 21:00:00 Here's another newsletter I got from SliwaNews regarding the situation in Mauritania:For Immediate Release:May 22, 2007Mauritanian Exiles File Lawsuit Against Former Dictator For Ethnic CleansingNew York, NY - Mauritanian exiles living in New York filed a class action lawsuit yesterday against Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya, for the crimes committed during a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Black Mauritanians from 1989 to 1991. The lawsuit was filed in United States Federal Court by attorneys from the Refugee Defense Alliance.A press conference will be held on Thursday, May 24th in New York at 6:30 pm at the Global Information Network, 146 W 29th Street, Suite 7E. For more information contact Wesley O'Brien at wesley.obrien@gmail.com.Maurita-nia, situated on the edge of the Sahara along the west coast of Africa, is divided ethnically between the Arab north and Black-African south. Black-Africans in Mauritania have long resisted the policy of Arabization and continued practice of slave...
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Leading anti-slavery campaigner wins Mauritanian Presidency
2007-03-28 09:06:00 Leading anti-slavery campaigner wins Mauritanian Presidency Amin George Forji The Sahara desert country of Mauritania is set to swear in it’s first ever democratically elected president, since independence, following the results of the second round of it’s historic presidential poll that took lace on Sunday, March 25. According to he results released on Monday by the country’s ...
The Mauritanian experience
2007-03-25 15:50:00 Did you see the news ?? Did you watch what is going Mauritania. This Arabic African who many don't know that it is member in the Arab League ,which is usually mentioned in Egyptian Newspapers as some sort of villain Arabic country that has strong relations with Israel and America , strangely we have even stronger relations with Israel and America !!! Anyhow we always underestimate this country , consider it poor and its people live according to tribalism Yet those tribal people proved- to be more advanced and respectful then us with our 7000 years civilization, they proved to understand the word of democracy better than , not only us but better than the rest of the Arab world from the ocean to the gulf. In August 2005 the army there made a coup that ended the dictator rule of Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya,who ruled the country for 21 years "sounds familiar is n't it ??!!" That coup was led by colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall It could have been any ...
Mauritania?s case a very big disgrace for The Gambia?s Yahya Jammeh.
2007-03-14 17:30:00 Mauritania’s case a very big disgrace for The Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh. By Hammadi Maasina. Who says West Africa is not on the world’s diary bearing the stigma of evil regimes like Samuel Doe,Yahya Jammeh,Charles Taylor and Lassana Conteh? Nobody. Who says the same West Africa is not registered on this very diary’s next page bearing the medals ...
What To See On Your Holidays In Mauritania
1969-12-31 19:00:00 Mauritania is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world and is officially known as Mauritania’s Islamic Republic. This place is situated in the north-west of Africa and on its west is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and on the south-west by Senegal, to southeast and east by Mali and on its northwest ...
What To See On Your Holidays In Mauritania
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Mauritania is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world and is officially known as Mauritania's Islamic Republic. This place is situated in the north-west of Africa and on its west is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and on the south-west by Senegal, to southeast and east by Mali and on its northwest by the Western Sahara.
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