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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
An American aircraft from Mauritania had a forced landing in northern Mali, causing injuries, security sources disclosed in Nouakchott. The security sources said the plane was forced to land in an uninhabited zone due to a technical fault, without elaborating on its type, the destination and the number of people on board. Several injured passengers in this accident were assisted by Malian emergence...
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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) | 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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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Senegalese authorities have deported back to Nouakchott the Mauritanian citizen Taleb Ould Ahmednah. Ould Ahmednah is accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). He was arrested two months ago in Dakar where he was questioned by local authorities about his false papers. In the first place, the alleged salafist [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Nouakchott, Mauritania - Mauritanian security officials said Wednesday they had arrested 34 African migrants attempting to smuggle themselves to Spain. The arrests were made along the border with Western Sahara, which is administered by Morocco, and ...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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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Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
great old car, but have no idea what it is? waiting getting the lamb in the car trunk Today I got together with Oumar Ball and Bechir Maloum and went sketching at the Kebbe "marbat" or the cattle market in the Kebbe area. One of the areas of town which can be classified as shanty town. An asfalted road crosses it and by the side there are shelters where the men await the buyers, surrounded...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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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