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MAURITANIA: Military leader salutes democracy on rural tour
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
EMA Wednesday, May 10, 2006 (IRIN) - Regional politicians, tribal chiefs, and local residents flocked to catch a glimpse of Mauritaniaâ??s newly self-installed military leader Ely Ould Mohamed Vall during a nationwide roadtrip, but not quite everyone liked what they ... more
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MAURITANIA: WFP appeals for urgent aid to head off food shortages
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AKAR Friday, June 16, 2006 (IRIN) - Some 380,000 Mauritanians could go hungry at the end of July unless donors stump up US $4 million for UN feeding programmes, the World Food Programme warned in a statement on ... more
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MAURITANIA: WFP appeals for urgent aid to head off food shortages
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AKAR Friday, June 16, 2006 (IRIN) - Some 380,000 Mauritanians could go hungry at the end of July unless donors stump up US $4 million for UN feeding programmes, the World Food Programme warned in a statement on ... more
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MAURITANIA: Military junta launches pro-democracy poll
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Friday, June 23, 2006 (IRIN) - Mauritaniaâ??s new military leaders are encouraging voters to massively take part in a referendum on Sunday aimed at promoting democracy and preventing presidents from remaining in office for more than two ... more
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MAURITANIA: Voters embrace pro-democracy reforms
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Tuesday, June 27, 2006 (IRIN) - Some 96 percent of Mauritanians voted Yes to constitutional changes meant to bring an end to military coups and paving the way for elections next ... more
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MAURITANIA: Waiting for the rains, poorest struggle to survive
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
EIDI Thursday, July 20, 2006 (IRIN) - Water is as precious as gold in Mauritaniaâ??s baking hot villages, and probably seems just as heavy for the women and children who trek 15 kilometres or more every day to pump barrels of it out of the ground, hauling it home on... more
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MAURITANIA: Donor attention faltering but hunger continues - WFP
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Thursday, July 20, 2006 (IRIN) - The World Food Programmeâ??s director in the Mauritanian capital has warned that a sixth of the countryâ??s population are vulnerable to fluctuating food supplies and said international donor aid remains critical for ... more
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MAURITANIA: Urban poor scraping by with little aid
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Thursday, July 20, 2006 (IRIN) - Meeting the humanitarian challenge of Mauritaniaâ??s unpredictable climate is no longer just a question of long forays across the trackless desert to locate and assist remote villages. More and more Mauritanians are packing up and heading for urban areas to scratch out a... more
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MAURITANIA: Seasonal storm leaves seven dead
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Monday, July 24, 2006 (IRIN) - At least seven people died and dozens more were injured when a seasonal storm ripped through Mauritaniaâ??s south central regions of Trarza and Brakna at the weekend, according to state-run radio. ... more
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MAURITANIA: From fear to hope
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Friday, August 11, 2006 (IRIN) - Although Mauritania's transitional government has turned out to be a suprise success, a question mark hangs over the country's post-election future, and some lingering nervousness among Mauritanians shows a waryness about the prospects for a long-term ... more
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MAURITANIA: Locust swarm under control - FAO
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Wednesday, October 11, 2006 (IRIN) - An 8 kilometre swarm of desert locusts laying eggs in provinces north and east of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott has raised fears of a major locust invasion at the height of the growing season, but the United Nations said on Wednesday the situation... more
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MAURITANIA: Migrants lie in waiting
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Thursday, November 02, 2006 (IRIN) - In joint sea operations with Spain, Mauritania has intercepted and expelled almost 10,000 West Africans since May as they attempted to sail in wooden fishing canoes to Spain's Canary
Islands and travel on to mainland Europe. Yet thousands of these illegal migrants are still... more
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MAURITANIA: Another step in democratic transition
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Thursday, November 23, 2006 (IRIN) - Provisional results from historic legislative and municipal elections in Mauritania indicated on Thursday that opposition parties that had defied the countryâ??s previous military regime had made a strong ... more
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MAURITANIA: Legal wrangling leaves migrant ship adrift
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Friday, February 09, 2007 (IRIN) - A disabled cargo ship packed with hundreds of would-be migrants to Europe has been drifting off the coast of Mauritania for more than two weeks because the Mauritanian government has refused to allow the ship to ... more
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MAURITANIA: Would-be migrants in limbo on land as at sea
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
OUAKCHOTT Thursday, February 15, 2007 (IRIN) - Three hundred and seventy two would-be migrants to Europe who had drifted for weeks off the coast of North Africa in a disabled cargo ship, disembarked at the Mauritanian port of Nouadhibou on Monday, yet humanitarian workers said they did not know what... more
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Ex-Minister Wins Landmark Presidential Vote
Topix - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
idi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, left, a government minister in the 1970s, beat a longtime opposition politician, Ahmed Ould Daddah, 53 percent to 47 percent, in a runoff election for president Sunday. Comment ... more
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Mauritania ex-minister wins historic election
Topix - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
uld Abdallahi, a 69-year-old former government minister, is the northwestern African country's first democratically-elected president since it won independence from France in 1960. Comment ... more
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Abdallahi Wins Mauritanian Presidential Run-Off
Topix - Monday, March 26, 2007
auritanian presidential candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi casts his vote in Nouakchott, Mauritania Sources in Mauritania's interior ministry say former government minister Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has won ... Comment ... more
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Abdallahi elected as Mauritania president
Topix - Monday, March 26, 2007
auritania electoral officials count ballots at a voting centre in the capital Nouakchott, March 25, 2007. Comment ... more
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The Country votes in runoff for civilian president
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 26, 2007
auritanians voted on Saturday in a presidential runoff between a former technocrat and a veteran opposition leader, the last stage of returning civilian rule to the Islamic state bordering the ... more
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