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Mauritania-Senegal: Mohammed Abdullah Dea: "I'll go back now in...
Topix - Wednesday, July 11, 2007
p> Mohammed Abdullah Dea served in the Mauritanian army before he and more than 60,000 black Mauritanians were expelled to Senegal between 1989 and 1990. via IRIN News ... more
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A delayed spring break trip to Mauritania
Topix - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We typically take around 10 to 12 students per trip" For Cara Comfort, a recent graduate from the University of Kansas School of Nursing, the two weeks that she spent providing health education and care in Mauritania widened her viewpoint of patients from other ... ... more
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Refugee Says He Shall Return to Seek Justice
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
ohammed Abdullah Dea served in the Mauritanian army before he and more than 60,000 black Mauritanians were expelled to Senegal between 1989 and 1990. The recently elected Mauritanian government has announced that exiled refugees are to be welcomed back. Dea gave IRIN his personal account of being tortured the last... more
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Sahara ride rough, but everyone gets window seat
Topix - Monday, July 09, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There is no plane, no buses, no trucks" One might ask why any sane person would ride 419 miles through the Sahara in a railroad hopper, scorched by a blazing sun, surrounded by goats, fated to pass 17 hours watching desperate companions relieve ... via... more
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Mauritania Visa Update
Topix - Sunday, July 08, 2007
p> Greetings to anyone planning on heading down to Mauritania from Morocco in the near future. via Lonely Planet ... more
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Mauritania denies having secret CIA prison
Topix - Friday, July 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There is absolutely nothing to it" NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: The government of Mauritania formally denied Friday that the country is hiding a secret CIA prison. via International Herald Tribune ... more
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In Mauritania, forced feeding of women winding down [Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge]
Topix - Thursday, July 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"For myself, for my health and to be skinny." Archives In Mauritania, forced feeding of women winding down Category: Health and Society Posted on: July 5, 2007 8:52 AM, by Kevin Beck Yesterday's New York Times included an article about a long-standing ... via ScienceBlogs... more
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In Mauritania, Seeking to End an Overfed Ideal
Topix - Wednesday, July 04, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Men want women to be fat, and so they are fat" NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - At the Olympic Sports Stadium here, a collection of dun-colored buildings rising mirage-like from the vast Sahara, about a dozen women clad in tennis shoes and sandals circled the ... via... more
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Ainina's Sharp Quill Jabs Mauritania's Status Quo
Topix - Tuesday, July 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The men don't want to use birth control and the women aren't aware that it's necessary." In a dark room in Nouackchott's Maternite Sebkha clinic, Mahjouba Mint Cheikh lies listlessly under a heavy blanket, a tube of blood sloping down from a suspended bag to pierce... more
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in West Africa and East-Central African Virus Lineage, Mauritania, 2003
Topix - Sunday, July 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Centre National d'Elevage et de Recherche Vtrinaire" Ousmane Faye,* Mawlouth Diallo,* Djibril Diop, O. Elmamy Bezeid, Hampath B, Mbayame Niang,* Ibrahima Dia,* Sid Ahmed Ould Mohamed, Kader Ndiaye,* Diawo Diallo,* Peinda Ogo Ly,* Boubacar Diallo, Pierre Nabeth,* ... via Centers for Disease Control and Preve...... more
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UN: Policymakers must rethink desertification
Topix - Friday, June 29, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Addressing desertification is a critical and essential part of adaptation to climate change and mitigation of global biodiversity losses" Satellite images of sand dunes encroaching on Nouakchott in Mauritania [BEIJING] A new policy report from the United Nations University urges governments to adopt a more coordinated... more
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6 arrested in Mauritania on suspicion of terrorism
Topix - Thursday, June 28, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We had very precise information on these people and their activities as related to foreign terrorist groups" NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: Authorities have arrested three Moroccans and three Mauritanians in this northwest African country on suspicion of terrorism, officials said Thursday. via International Herald Tribune ... more
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Second group of Mauritanian Islamists on trial for terrorism
Topix - Tuesday, June 26, 2007
p> NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: Fourteen Islamists accused of terrorism went on trial in Mauritania Monday in the second such case in a month. via International Herald Tribune ... more
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Mauritania: Supporting the repatriation of child camel jockeys
Topix - Monday, June 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Children are chosen as camel jockeys because of their small weight and skills acquired while tending camels at an early age." Like many 11-year-olds, Yacoub struggles with his studies. Unlike other children, however, he only started school two years ago. via UNICEF News ... more
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Opposition Party Chairman Withdraws Complaint Against Journalists
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 14, 2007
n 4 June 2007, chairman of the opposition Popular Front political party, Ch'bih Ould Cheikh Malainnie, withdrew complaints of defamation he filed against three journalists from privately-owned Nouakchott-based ... more
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Immigrant gets 4 years in death of lifelong friend
Topix - Saturday, June 09, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"These two men go back to childhood, and after one moment of passion, there is a stab wound." They were lifelong friends and immigrants from northwestern Africa, but one stabbed the other, killing him during an argument last year in a Columbus apartment. via Columbus... more
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Mauritania: Exiles' Lawsuit Shines Light On Past Abuses
Topix - Thursday, June 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"He and the other Black Mauritanian soldiers were abducted by their own superiors in an effort to prevent any black military resistance to ethnic cleansing" A group of Mauritanian exiles living in New York has come forward to challenge their country's justice system and the alleged... more
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Exiles' Lawsuit Shines Light On Past Abuses
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 07, 2007
group of Mauritanian exiles living in New York has come forward to challenge their country's justice system and the alleged abuses of the former ruler of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Maaouya Ould Sidi Áhmed ... more
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UAE Red Crescent responds to Mauritanian drought
Topix - Wednesday, June 06, 2007
p> ABU DHABI: The Red Crescent Society in the United Arab Emirates has announced that it will dispatch urgent aid to drought-hit Mauritania. via The Daily Star ... more
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Mauritania court clears Islamists in security trial
Topix - Tuesday, June 05, 2007
p> A Mauritanian court on Tuesday acquitted 20 Islamists of charges of threatening state security in the Saharan nation, including accusations of links with al Queda, court officials said. via AlertNet ... more
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