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Algeria: Special Focus on Mauritania
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p>Algerian blogger Lameen Souag has kind words for Mauritania . “On the rare occasions when it makes Western headlines, it’s generally for slavery or famine, but this week it’s distinguishing itself in a rather nobler fashion: holding its first free presidential elections,” he writes, while giving special... more
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Without New Funds 68,000 Hungry Children Face Cut in UN Food Rations
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p to 68,000 young children in Mauritania, already threatened by malnutrition, will have their rations reduced or cut completely at the most critical time of the year unless substantial new contributions are forthcoming, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned ... more
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Fair Elections Haunted By Racial Imbalance
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
undreds of marquees have appeared all over the towns and far-flung settlements of this vast desert nation ahead of the presidential elections scheduled to begin on 11 March, each representing one of the 19 ... more
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Samba Djamanka, 'We Were On the High Seas for 20 Days, Without Food Or Water'
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
One month ago, Samba Djamanka was in the last semester of high school at Tanaf, a town in Senegal's Casamance Region, when his father told him that he would not be able to finish his studies. Instead he had to take a canoe heading for the Spanish Canary Islands. After... more
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Who Will Help the Next Stranded Migrant Ship?
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
iplomatic fallout over 400 mostly Asian migrants who had drifted for weeks in a ship off the coast of Mauritania has left governments less likely to assist the next group of migrants that gets into difficulties and raises the prospect of having a humanitarian emergency in which no one will... more
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Vote for New Civilian President Passes Peacefully
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
auritanians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a civilian president and end what has effectively been 29 years of military ... more
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Mauritania: Cease Harassment of Opposition
Human Rights Watch - Thursday, March 15, 2007
Human Rights Watch condemned the ongoing harassment of opposition
leaders and human rights activists in Mauritania and called for the unconditional release from prison of three opposition activists. ... more
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Global Caste Discrimination
Human Rights Watch - Thursday, March 15, 2007
Caste-based discrimination blights the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world, and the World Conference Against Racism should have the issue squarely on its agenda, Human Rights Watch urged in a new report released ... more
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Mauritania: No Democracy for Opposition Voices
Human Rights Watch - Thursday, March 15, 2007
The Mauritanian government's harassment of opposition figures undermines any chance of free and fair elections, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Mauritanian president ... more
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Mauritania - Topix.net
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
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Mauritanians Choose Post-Coup President
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
he junta that took control of Mauritania two years ago held promised elections Sunday but some residents were not hopeful for lasting democracy with a former dictator and a failed coup leader on the ballot. Comment ... more
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Mauritania rivals set for run-off
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
nternational observers have deemed the election free and fair With almost all the votes counted from Mauritania's presidential election, the two favourites seem almost certain to face a 25 March run-off, ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanians vote to choose first non-military president
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Nouakchott. Mauritanians have flocked to polling stations to vote in a landmark presidential election to cap the handover of power to civilian rule after a ... Comment ... more
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In Mauritania, Democracy Takes Root
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
lue-robed nomads, village elders, lawyers and civil servants stream into Mauritania's presidential palace, urging the bespectacled man who seized control of this desert nation in a coup to stay in power. Comment ... more
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Mauritania Holds Landmark Presidential Election
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
auritanian presidential candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi casts his vote in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Sunday, 11 March 2007 Mauritanians have voted in a landmark presidential election that will hand over ... Comment ... more
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Mauritania holds landmark free election
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
eisure Regulars Democratic civilian rule is on the brink of being restored to Mauritania after a landmark free election in the vast north African country which has seen little stability since winning its ... Comment ... more
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Mauritania holds election for return to civilian rule
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
woman registers to cast her ballot at a polling station in Nouakchott. Mauritanians streamed to polling stations yesterday to vote in a presidential election to complete the handover of power NOUAKCHOTT: ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanians Vote in Presidential Poll
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
oters in the desert nation of Mauritania went to the polls Sunday with hopes that whoever wins the first presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the country back into totalitarian ... Comment ... more
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Mauritanian Candidates Court Second-Round Votes
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
or the first time in their history, Mauritanians are preparing for a second round of presidential polls. Comment ... more
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MAURITANIA: Another step in democratic transition
IRIN - Thursday, March 15, 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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