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Slavery's Last Frontiers: Breaking the Shackles of bondage - Slavery still alive in Africa
Topix - Monday, March 26, 2007
Mauritanian man herds camels near the ancient desert town of Changuetti, 500km north-east of the capital Nouakchott in this March 10 picture. Comment ... more
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Mauritania ends first transparent presidential election
Topix - Monday, March 26, 2007
ouakchott- Voting ended Sunday in Mauritania's landmark presidential elections, described as the first transparent polls in the north-west African desert country since independence in 1960. Comment ... more
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Mauritanians Cast Ballots in Post-Coup Presidential Runoff
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
arber report - Download 280k Listen to Barber report Mauritanians are choosing their president at the ballot box in the country's first presidential runoff. Comment ... more
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Mauritania holds landmark presidential runoff
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
auritanian women wait at the entrance of a polling station to vote in Nouakchott. Comment ... more
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Mauritania'e key elections proceed peacefully
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
ouakchott- Mauritanians were voting Sunday in watershed presidential elections aimed at ushering in a democratic era, which pitted a veteran politician campaigning on national unity against an opposition ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanians vote for president
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
final result is expected to on Monday Mauritanians are voting in a run-off presidential poll after an inconclusive first round election two weeks ago. Comment ... more
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Rivals pledge change as Mauritania votes
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
auritanians voted on Sunday for a civilian president to replace their ruling military junta, with the two contenders promising to promote social justice and development in the Arab-African state. Comment ... more
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Mauritania votes in run-off for president
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
y Pascal Fletcher Nouakchott - Mauritanians vote on Sunday to pick between two economists standing for president in the last stage of returning civilian rule to the Arab-African Islamic state bordering the ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanians Vote for Post-Coup Leader
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
itizens of this coup-plagued northwest African country went to the polls Sunday for the second time this month _ choosing between two men vying to usher Mauritania into civilian rule The runoff _ held ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanians vote for first-ever democratically elected leader
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
idi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi , who won 25 percent of the vote in the first round of the election held on March 11, celebrates with his new allies, ex-governor of the Central Bank Zeine Ould Zeidane and Messaoud ... Comment ... more
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Mauritania pushes toward democracy
Topix - Saturday, March 24, 2007
roffering a purple-tipped index finger as proof of his participation in the first round of Mauritania's presidential election, 37-year-old Mohamed Hamed Lavdane is not exactly brimming with respect for his ... Comment ... more
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Supporters of Unsuccessful Candidates Threaten Al-Jazeera Staff
allAfrica.com - Friday, March 23, 2007
eporters Without Borders has condemned supporters of some candidates eliminated in the first round of presidential elections, who forced their way into the offices of al-Jazeera TV in Nouakchott and threatened ... more
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Mauritania candidates promise to outlaw slavery
Topix - Friday, March 23, 2007
OUAKCHOTT - Mauritania will make slavery a crime in the Saharan Islamic state where the centuries-old practice persists despite being banned, the two candidates for the presidency have ... Comment ... more
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Mauritania: First Arab Country to Hold a Second Round in a Presidential Election
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 22, 2007
p>The blog of Convergence Républicaine pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie en Mauritanie (CRIDEM) points to a La Tribune d’Algérie article stating [Fr]: “Long considered a back-country, Mauritania just proved to its neighbors and to the world that when it comes to democracy, the country can... more
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Slavery still exists in Mauritania
Topix - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
OUAKCHOTT - They do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania.In the Saharan Islamic state, a centuries-old system of bondage ... Comment ... more
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Slavery still exists in Mauritania
Topix - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
hey do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania. Comment ... more
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"I was born a slave" - Matalla tells his story
Topix - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
atalla is an adult former slave who escaped two years ago from his nomadic Arab masters in the deserts of northeast Mauritania. Comment ... more
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Slavery still exists in Mauritania
Topix - Wednesday, March 21, 2007
hey do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania. Comment ... more
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Criminal gangs smuggle African immigrants into Europe
Topix - Tuesday, March 20, 2007
AS PALMAS, Canary Islands: To Europe: At all costs Fourth in an occasional series The nearly 400 migrants who thought they were sailing to Europe from the West African nation of Guinea ended up ill, stranded ... Comment ... more
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Migrants aboard the Marine I after it arrived in Nouadhibou, Mauritania.
Topix - Monday, March 19, 2007
AS PALMAS, Canary Islands: The nearly 400 migrants who thought they were sailing to Europe from the West African nation of Guinea ended up ill, stranded and broke in Mauritania. Comment ... more
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