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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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People Daily (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Gulnara Shahinian, UN special rapporteur on the modern day slavery, is in Mauritania at the government invitation, official sources said on Sunday in Nouakchott. "Mauritania just made slavery a criminal offence very recently in 2007. This visit will therefore give me a unique opportunity to examine the impact of the new legislation that was adopted," Shahinian declared to the local press....
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A total of 14,955 Mauritanian refugees in Senegal have returned since the repatriation operation began, an official source disclosed this to Xinhua on Tuesday. The latest contingent, the 65th of the returnees, arrived on Tuesday at Boghe, a town on a river bank situated in the south of the capital Nouakchott, including 244 people from 58 families. They will resettle at eight villages along River Senegal....
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Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
"Ancien Maison de Jeunes", with metal dectector door The entry hall where two young ladies in traditional dress receive all the guests. One of the young ladies in traditional Peul dress and guests. The Nouakchott Film Festival started today and will go on untill the 29th October. Its organised by the " Maison des Cineastes " which is runned by Abderrahmane Ahmed Salem This event...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Swarms of locusts are currently being reported in many areas in the Aoukar, Inchiri and Nouakchott regions in Mauritania, the director of the National anti- locust center (CNLCCP), Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, revealed here. Ould Babah explained on Monday at a sensitization meeting with development partners in Nouakchott that this year’s good rainfall favored the presence [...]
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
The chief of general staff of the French military, general Jean-Louis Gorgelin, arrived on Sunday in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott for a working visit, the northwest African country's military said. The French general will meet Mauritanian Defense Minister Hammadi Ould Hammadi before visiting his counterpart Ghazwani in the northern towns of Chinguitty and Atar. The French army chief will also...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The visiting head of the Spanish diplomacy, Miguel Angel Moratinos, has started talks with Mauritanian authorities to boost their bilateral cooperation. Following an audience with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, Monday in Nouakchott, the Spanish Minister emphasized the “willingness” of both parties “to move forward after the signing of the Friendship and Neighborhood...
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Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
A new try at issuu and this is my latest book with watercolor sketches of people from Nouakchott to the Refugee Camps of Western Sahara at Tindouf, Algeria, it looks so nice that the next one I'll print for real.
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