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Country Made Slavery Illegal Last Month
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, September 05, 2007
n August, Mauritania's parliament voted to make slavery ... more
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Mauritania: Flood Damage Intensifies With More Rains
Topix - Wednesday, September 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Some people have received tent distributions 10 times, while others haven't received anything at all" As Mauritania tries to recover from floods that totally submerged the southeastern town of Tintane in early August, more recent rains have caused additional damage in other regions of the country.... more
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Flood Damage Intensifies With More Rains
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, September 05, 2007
s Mauritania tries to recover from floods that totally submerged the southeastern town of Tintane in early August, more recent rains have caused additional damage in other regions of the ... more
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ACT Appeal: Assistance to drought affected communities, Mauritania
Topix - Wednesday, September 05, 2007
p> Source: Action by Churches Together - Switzerland Elisabeth Gouel / www.act-intl.org Appeal Mauritania Assistance to drought affected communities - AFMR71 Appeal Target: US$ 165,062 Geneva, 28 August 2007 ... via AlertNet ... more
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Mauritania Rappers Fight Against Clandestine Migration
Topix - Monday, September 03, 2007
p> Listen to Tran report Mauritanian rap group, Diam Men Teky, has been rapping in Mauritania's poorest neighborhoods for 15 years. via Voice of America ... more
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New Anti-Slavery Law Not Enough
Topix - Saturday, September 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Accompanying measures are necessary so that this law is not forgotten--so that it actually contributes to the emancipation of former slaves" Mauritania's government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. via Iran Daily ... more
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Newspaper Journalist Assaulted By First Lady's Associates
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 31, 2007
eporters Without Borders calls for an investigation into a physical attack on Elvaka Ould Cheibany, the privately-owned daily "Nouakchott Info"'s correspondent in the northern city of Nouadhibou, by two members of First Lady Mint Boukhary's immediate entourage on 28 August 2007. The two men, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Kebady and Noman... more
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African Women, Children Joining Men as Clandestine Migrants
Topix - Friday, August 31, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There are more and more women who are taking on this adventure." Listen to Tran report Security officials have caught hundreds of African migrants trying to illegally enter Europe this month. via Voice of America ... more
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Mauritania : Ignorance and Tradition
Global Voices Online - Thursday, August 30, 2007
p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Generously endowed women are favored in Mauritania. The fatter the woman, the more beautiful she is thought to be. Being big is also a sign of wealth and the search for beauty and signs of exterior wealth leads to some unorthodox methods... more
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West Africa's Clandestine Migration Creates Service Industry
Topix - Wednesday, August 29, 2007
p> Listen to Tran report Every week, hundreds of Africans set out from various ports in often decaying fishing boats in order to slip away from their home countries and chase jobs and dreams of life outside ... via Voice of America ... more
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Mauritanians seize migrant boat
Topix - Tuesday, August 28, 2007
p> The Mauritanian navy has for the first time seized a boatload of Africans trying to reach a new life in Europe. via BBC ... more
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Lakhwiya provides help in Mauritania
Topix - Monday, August 27, 2007
p> A Qatar Internal Forces vehicle on relief work in the flood-affected areas of Mauritania. via The Peninsula ... more
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Mauritania: New Anti-Slavery Law Not Enough for Real Change, Activists Say
Topix - Saturday, August 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"All these people need to know their rights, so that they know that they are whole persons who should be proud of themselves" The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. via... more
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Rights Defender Denounces Slavery in Mauritania
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 24, 2007
local Mauritanian rights defender, Help The Slaves Group (HTSG) has denounced the practice of slavery in ... more
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Another Step in Democratic Transition
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 24, 2007
rovisional results from historic legislative and municipal elections in Mauritania indicated on Thursday that opposition parties that had defied the country's previous military regime had made a strong ... more
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New Anti-Slavery Law Not Enough for Real Change, Activists Say
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 24, 2007
he Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists ... more
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3G cell service goes live in Mauritania
Topix - Friday, August 24, 2007
p> By Ibrahima Sylla NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania became the latest African country to benefit from third-generation (3G) mobile phone services on Thursday as its newest provider Chinguitel went live, officials said. Chinguitel, majority owned by Sudan's national telecoms company Sudatel, covers 4,000 km (2,485 miles) of main... more
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Mauritania to export 1.5 mln tons of iron annually to China
Topix - Thursday, August 23, 2007
p> Mauritania's National Mining and Industrial Company has clinched a deal to export 1.5 million tons of iron to China annually over the next seven years, according to information reaching Dakar Wednesday. via People's Daily Online ... more
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Justice Initiative Hails Mauritania's New Anti-Slavery Law
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, August 21, 2007
he Open Society Justice Initiative today hailed the Mauritanian National Assembly’s passage of a new anti-slavery bill, but noted that it contains weaknesses that could undermine enforcement ... more
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Camel Milk Transforms Mauritania's Herding Lifestyle
Topix - Tuesday, August 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I did not realize how bad it was that there was a traditional reluctance to sell milk, you would call it a taboo" Listen to Tran report Camel milk has been honored as a gourmet food by Italy, as a poverty reducer by the United Nations... more
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