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Mauritania holds partial senatorial elections on Saturday

A partial election to replace a third of Mauritanian senators opens on Saturday in 18 constituencies in 13 provinces of the country, according to a press statement of the Interior Ministry. The campaign for this election, which involves 18 of the 56 Senate seats including the Mauritanian African senator, came to an end on Friday midnight. According to the observers, the ruling Republican Union (UPR)...

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Mauritania launches campaign against begging

The Mauritanian government throws its weight behind an ongoing campaign against begging in a bid to improve human rights conditions. Campaigners have set up four centers to take in people who had been reduced to begging in the capital Nouakchott at a cost of 1.2million U. S. dollars offered by the Human Rights Commission and the Humanitarian Action in Relation with the Civil Society (CDHAHRSC). The...

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Vote on Report of Fact Mission on Gaza Conflict The draft resolution on follow-up to the Report of

Vote on Report of Fact Mission on Gaza Conflict The draft resolution on follow-up to the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (document A/64/L.11) was adopted by a recorded vote of 114 in favour to 18 against, with 44 abstentions, as follows: In favour : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh,...

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Mauritanian President and Sheikh Abdullah discuss bilateral ties

Nouakchott - President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, here yesterday received H.H Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the accompanying delegation. H.H Sheikh Abdullah conveyed greetings of UAE Presid

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Malnutrition Has No Season in Nouakchott

At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.

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UN Expert Cautions Mauritania On Slavery Practices

While noting the significant steps that have been taken in Mauritania to tackle slavery, an independent United Nations human rights expert today called for a comprehensive strategy to put an end to this scourge, warning of its impact on the country's future.

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U.S. opens cultural center in Nouakchott

The first American Information and Resource Center (IRC) was on Wednesday inaugurated in Nouakchott by the American ambassador to Mauritania, Mark Boulware. The American diplomat recalled in his speech that president Barack Obama had before anything else in his foreign policy towards Africa, insisted on the importance of democracy and good governance and had stretched his hand towards the Muslim world...

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Mauritania: Don't Abandon Us, HIV-Positive Community Tells Donors

People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of which they are suffering the consequences.

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[khabor.com] UAE has the highest Per Capita Phones in the world, Pakistan is ahead of China at 121 whereas India 2nd from bottom

UAE tops the list of nations who own highest number of phones per head. Every UAE resident has nearly 3 cell phones. Turkey is midway at 62 where is Pakistan lags behind Iraq at 121. Whereas shining India comes 159th, 2nd last from bottom, only nation below India is micronesia. Per capita cell phone ownership by country Rank Country Mobiles per 1000 people ===============================================...

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Mauritania: Foreign tourists and local women arrested over 'sex' video

Get back in your burqa girl!! Nouakchott, 5 Nov. ( AKI ) - Five foreign tourists and four Mauritanian women were arrested after being caught allegedly filming a pornographic video in a tent on the outskirts of Akjtout, located in western Mauritania. Mauritanian police arrested the foreigners and the local women during a night patrol in the area and after seeing electricity generators and a videocamera,...

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The Long Shadow Of Slavery In Mauritania

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania's tradition of chattel slavery is back in the news this week. A special report issued by Gulnara Shahinian, the first United Nations " Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery ", reveals how little progress has been made in ending slavery within the borders of that West African nation. When a new government came to power in 2007, there were attempts...

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Slavery still persists in Mauritania

afrol News, 4 November - Despite strong efforts by the toppled democratic government of Mauritania, slavery has yet to be rooted out in the country, a UN report documents. Under the new government, little progress is made to fight slavery. Gulnara Shahinian, the first UN "Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery" appointed only last year, today reports her findings after a longer...

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Global Islamic reform discussed in forum in Kuwait

Mauritania's President of the National Rally for Reform and Development Mohammed Ould Mansour on Wednesday noted that reform was a laudatory objective in the view of Islam and religions of the Book.2009/11/5

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Enough with the ectoplasm and pseudo-science! It's time for some Renaissance skepticism!

It seems only right to follow a month of willfully credulous Halloween posts with some science-based debunking of wondrous phenomena. And who better to take on the task than seventeenth-century polymath Athanasius Kircher ? I’ve just started digging into a new book by Joscelyn Godwin about Kircher, Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World: The Life and Work of the Last Man to Search for...

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'As Soon As My Children Get Better I Will Go Back to the Village'

Adama Ndiaye, 20, is originally from the Kaédi region in the south of Mauritania - one of the regions worst affected by malnutrition. After losing her first two children she decided to go to the capital Nouakchott to care for her twins and her youngest child.