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IMF Executive Board Approves 100 Percent Debt Relief
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today 100 percent debt relief for Mauritania under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) amounting to SDR 32.9 million (about US$49 million), including SDR 2.7 million (about US$4 million) of assistance remaining under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
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Mauritanian vote aims to end cycle of coup attempts
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
By Nick TattersallNOUAKCHOTT - Mauritanians voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to amend their constitution, in a ballot aimed at ending decades of coup attempts and one-party rule in the Islamic
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Mauritania military ruler urges huge vote turnout
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The head of Mauritania's ruling military council called for a massive turnout in a referendum on Sunday, saying the vote was a historic opportunity for the Islamic Republic to embrace
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Mauritanians hail vote as call for sweeping change
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
NOUAKCHOTT: Politicians and local non-governmental groups in Mauritania on Tuesday hailed the country's weekend vote in favor of a new democratic
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Suicide attacker kills 5 at army checkpoint
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A suicide attacker rammed his bomb-packed car into an army checkpoint yesterday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10 near the Afghan
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auritania backs 'new democracy'
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Observers from the African Union and the Arab League backed the vote, noting a "good atmosphere" and a "strong mobilisation of voters". "It is a historic day for
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Suspect in UF student's death caught in Africa
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A former Shands nurse, wanted for second-degree murder in last year's death of a University of Florida student, is in custody in western Africa after he stopped at a U.S. embassy to try and get money"> A former
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Mauritanians Overwhelmingly Approve Term Limits
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritanians have overwhelmingly approved term limits for elected presidents in a referendum marking the first of many planned polls during the transition from military to democratic
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Mauritania gives thumbs up for new Constitution
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Voters in the poverty stricken West African nation of Mauritania overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution in a weekend referendum, Interior Ministry officials said on
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Mauritania Goes to Polls in Constitutional Referendum
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Bavier report - Download 210k Listen to Bavier report female police officer casts her vote at the city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, Sunday, June 25, 2006 The people of Mauritania are voting in a constitutional
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Voters Embrace Pro-Democracy Reforms
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
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
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Cement Prices Up 25 Percent
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Cement prices have risen by 25 percent in Mauritania, said official sources on
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Mauritania court charges 8 with ties to al Qaeda
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A court in Mauritania charged eight men Tuesday with helping plot attacks last year and having links to an al Qaeda-linked Algerian militant
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Mauritania gets $819 million debt cancellation
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritanian officials have disclosed that the country is now basking in a total cancellation of debts worth $819
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Mauritanian women march in support of Palestinians
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
More than 10,000 Mauritanians, many of them women, marched in the capital Nouakchott on Tuesday in support of Palestinians after the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza, witnesses and officials
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Eight Islamists held in Mauritania, four freed
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania has remanded in custody eight suspected members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamic group, charging them with crimes ranging from taking up arms against the state to forgery and belonging to an outlawed
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Japan to Look At Oil Development
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania and Japan would co-operate in the area of developing oil resources in the West African
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Mauritania Heads Towards Democracy
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The transitional democratic process, initiated by the Military Council for Justice and
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ation Adds Term Limits, But Will New Charter End the Era of Coups?
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritanians have recently emerged from a constitutional referendum whose results have been widely touted as the return to democracy for a country that has never witnessed a change of rulers without a coup. In the June 25 referendum, Mauritanians voted by an overwhelming 97 per cent to introduce presidential term
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Country Receives $13 Million for Public Sector Capacity Building
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit* of US$13 million to support the development priorities of the Government's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
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