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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | yesterday
JP here. Not been posting on this blog for a while, just thought I'd give a run-down of my opinions on the news over the past few weeks and some other things that have popped up in general debates... Let's do 'democracy' at work first shall we? The EU president - So Herman van Rompuy is the new president. I couldn't really care less to be honest. People seem to be of the opinion that Van Rompuy will...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Mauritania has ordered staff at Israel's embassy to leave the country within 48 hours after freezing ties with the Jewish state over its invasion of Gaza. WRH permalink
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www.widyanto.tk (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Mantan Gubernur Bank Sentral Dituntut Kembalikan 95 Juta Dolar: Seorang mantan gubernur bank sentral Mauritania.. http://bit.ly/4aUWrJ
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AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) commenced new full ground handling contracts at Paris Orly at the beginning of November for Royal Air Maroc, Air Caraïbes, Air Mali, Air Burkina and Mauritania...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
General Ahmed Abdallah, a senior military official of Libya, is on a visit in Mauritania to discuss Nouakchott's participation in the African Union's peacekeeping force, security sources said. The Libyan general arrived here on Monday for talks with Mauritanian officials on the establishment of inter-African common defense and intervention force in case of conflicts, a mechanism proposed by Libyan...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A former Central Bank governor of Mauritania is asked to return 95 million U. S. dollars stolen between 2001 and 2002, police sources said on Monday. The former governor, Sid'Elmoctar Ould Nagi, is suspected of fraud in which the money was transferred by the bank under his instructions. Ould Nagi was asked by the police unit in charge of fighting economic crimes to return this money which, according...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The 34 Malian illegal immigrants, deported on Wednesday by Moroccan authorities and blocked at the border with Mauritania, have left their reception center for an unknown destination. The so-called illegal immigrants escaped in small groups from tents set up by the Mauritanian Red Cross which also provided food and other basic needs. After the escape, on Sunday [...]
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Red Back Mining Inc. (the "Company" or "Red Back") (TSX: RBI) is pleased to report another significant increase in Mineral Resources at its 100% owned Tasiast Gold Mine ("Tasiast") in Mauritania.
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Adaptation Dating Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Forced-fat-camp MARIE CLAIRE - Nov 15 - Is skinny really beautiful? Not in Mauritania, in Western Africa, where big is beautiful and stretch marks are sexy, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day--more than four times that of a male bodybuilder--to prepare them for marriage. Rolling layers of fat are the height of sexiness. Big women are back in vogue. The ultimate...
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Tog Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Take on Africa – latest update from Nouakchott, Mauritania – crossing the desert. For the best part of three weeks I’ve now been in the desert… the great Saharan wilderness. Perhaps wildness is an equally applicable term to use. And over the three weeks I’ve been cycling south, everyday crossing another small section of desert, each [...]
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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
DPA reports Mauritania's government has begun to educate its law enforcement and justice officials about slavery, in what it said was an effort to crack down on the practice.Mauritania has long been considered by human rights groups as a safe haven for slavery, with people still being bought and sold and then held as property of their masters.Mohamed al-Amin Walid Aldadah, the minister of human
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Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
MARIE CLAIRE - Nov 15 - Is skinny really beautiful? Not in Mauritania, in Western Africa, where big is beautiful and stretch marks are sexy, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day--more than four times that of a male bodybuilder--to prepare them for marriage.Rolling layers of fat are the height of sexiness. Big women are back in vogue. The ultimate sign of beauty,...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sudan and Mauritania Sunday agreed to enhance cooperation to prevent double taxation and commercial exchange. In a meeting Sunday between the Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti and the Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation Naha Mint Hamdi Ould Mouknass, the two sides reviewed horizons of cooperation between Khartoum and Nouakchott in the political and economic...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Nouakchott - Mauritania's government began Sunday to educate its law enforcement and justice officials about slavery, in what it said was an effort to crack down on the practice. Mauritania has long been considered by human rights groups as a safe ha...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
(Slavery is a problem around the world and very difficult to measure. The following examples are listed in geographical order and not in terms of the magnitude of the problem.) 1. US: An estimated 20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually - many are forced into prostitution. 2. Dominican Republic: Campaigners say hundreds of thousands of Haitians are rounded up near the border and made to work...
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