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Al-Qaida claims responsibility for shooting attack on Israeli Embassy in Mauritania
Topix - Friday, February 08, 2008
p> Al-Qaida claimed responsibility early Sunday morning for Friday's shooting attack at the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania that wounded three French nationals. via Haaretz Daily News ... more
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Outreach Update 07.02.08.
Topix - Thursday, February 07, 2008
p> RED DUST OF MALI for Motorcycle Outreach Expedition After six days of riding through the West African desert and Sahel, the GlobeBusters / Motorcycle Outreach Research Expedition has reached Kayes in Mali, a ... via Inside Bikes News ... more
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Al-Qaeda claims attack on Israel's embassy in Mauritania: Al Jazeera
Topix - Wednesday, February 06, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Al-Qaeda claims the attack against the Israeli embassy buildings in Nouakchott" The Al-Qaeda terror group has claimed an attack on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, Al Jazeera television reported Sunday. via Raw Story ... more
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US intel: Al-Qaeda may move outside Iraq
Topix - Tuesday, February 05, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Al-Qaeda remains the pre-eminent threat against the United States, both here at home and abroad" "They may deploy resources to mount attacks outside the country." Mike McConnell told a Senate hearing, although he also said that fewer than 100 terrorists have moved to establish cells in... more
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Shooters Are Sought in Israeli Embassy Attack in Mauritania
Topix - Monday, February 04, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"The opposition savagely attacked Israel because of the situation in Gaza. The media criticized Israel blatantly and exaggeratedly." Investigators from Mauritania, Israel and the United States were searching for men who opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the Mauritanian capital early on Friday, and struggling... more
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Fears of Rising Religious Extremism in Tolerant Democracy
Topix - Sunday, February 03, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"There are also more veiled women and more bearded men. We've let this develop without realizing [it]." PHOTO: The main mosque in Nouakchott - Mauritania adopted Islam as the state religion in 1991. via World Press Review ... more
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al-Qaida Affiliate Claims Embassy Attack
Topix - Sunday, February 03, 2008
p> An al-Qaida affiliate claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital, saying it was retaliating against Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, an Arab television station reported Saturday. At least one gunman opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania early Friday, setting... more
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Mauritania: Shooting may not have been against embassy
Topix - Saturday, February 02, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"And proof of this is that none of the assailants pointed his weapon towards it at first, but rather only when the embassy guards opened fire at them" Security forces arrest three young men suspected of involvement in shooting against Israeli embassy on Friday. via... more
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Gunmen attack Israeli embassy in Mauritania
Topix - Saturday, February 02, 2008
p> Gunmen attack Israeli embassy in Mauritania Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania on Friday, causing several injuries, witnesses said, in an attack condemned by Israel. via Turkish Daily News ... more
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Embassy Attack Rasises Fears of Extremism
allAfrica.com - Friday, February 01, 2008
n attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania on 1 February and two other high-profile attacks since December have thrown into question the country's future as a modernising, tolerant Islamic ... more
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Five wounded in Israeli embassy attack
Topix - Friday, February 01, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"I confirm that shots were aimed at our embassy from the street,'' he said. "I confirm that no one was wounded among the embassy staff or among the Mauritanians working for the embassy." A GROUP of six men have opened fire with automatic weapons the Israeli... more
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Islamic gunmen attack Israeli embassy
Topix - Friday, February 01, 2008
p> Six gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Nouakchott, in the northwest African country of Mauritania early Friday morning, trading fire with guards before fleeing screaming "Allah Akbar," witnesses said. via Jerusalem Post ... more
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West Africa to Recieve Medical Supplies from Kansas City
Topix - Wednesday, January 30, 2008
p> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 :: Joshua Titsworth On February 2, 2008 at 9:00 a.m., Mercy and Truth Medical Missions employees and volunteers will be filling a shipping container with medical supplies to send to ... via Kansas City InfoZine ... more
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MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: First refugees returning from Senegal get mixed welcome
Topix - Wednesday, January 30, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"It is true that a few months ago some people were sceptical... but today these sceptics are a minority" NOUAKCHOTT, 29 January 2008 - As Mauritanian refugees started their historic voyage from Senegal today, some Mauritanians said they feared the return would only burden the country... more
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First Set of Refugees Return Home Under UN Programme
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
ver 100 Mauritanian refugees, part of a group of 24,000 who fled to neighbouring Senegal over two decades ago, are returning to their home country today under a voluntary repatriation programme launched by the United Nations refugee agency after steps were taken by the governments concerned to address their ... more
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First Refugees Returning From Senegal Get Mixed Welcome
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
s Mauritanian refugees started their historic voyage from Senegal today, some Mauritanians said they feared the return would only burden the country and the ... more
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Mauritanian refugees return home
Topix - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
p> The first of the returnees are mostly women, children and the elderly More than 100 black Mauritanian refugees are returning home after 18 years in exile in Senegal. via BBC ... more
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World Bank president starts Africa tour
Topix - Sunday, January 27, 2008
p> NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania : World Bank President Robert Zoellick began a weeklong tour of Africa Sunday with a visit to Mauritania, where international donors want to encourage equitable growth in one of the ... via International Herald Tribune ... more
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Bank to finance railway project
Topix - Thursday, January 24, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"This project will facilitate the exploitation of our mineral resources as well as the creation of various development activities in areas crossed by the railway line" The Export-Import Bank of China has agreed to provide funds for the construction of a major railway line connecting Kaedi... more
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EU, Mauritania: Faraway Fishing
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
p>Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian fishers are robbing Mauritania of its fish - all because “the EU has methodically depleted fish stocks in its own waters, and now, it is buying fish quotas from poor countries in the third world,” Jonathan Newton reports .
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