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Women rethink a big size that is beautiful but brutal
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Big has long been considered beautiful in Mauritania. But now, a generation of women are abandoning an ancient practice to fatten up - and some are even redefining beauty to put their health first.It's not a
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World Bank Provides Additional Financing for the Second Mining Sector Capacity Building Project
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit* of US$5 million to provide additional funding for the Second Mining Sector Capacity Building project in
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Silent food crisis plagues Mauritania - UN
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A food shortage crisis threatens hundreds of thousands of people in the West African nation of Mauritania, a United Nations humanitarian official warned on Thursday, appealing urgently for
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RUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled on Thursday a...
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The European Commission unveiled on Thursday a plan to spend more than 5 billion euros to boost regional infrastructure in Africa, targeting key trans-African roads for
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omment devient-on patrimoine mondial ?
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Si un pays aspire à voir un de ses sites inscrits sur la liste du patrimoine mondial, il doit d'abord ratifier la Convention concernant la protection du patrimoine mondial, culturel et naturel adopté par l'Unesco en
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Mauritania Charges 5 With Coup Plot
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania authorities on Tuesday charged five men with plotting to overthrow this desert nation's military junta, which has pledged to restore civilian rule by next
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Mauritania charges ex-leader's aides
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania charges ex-leader's aides Thursday July 20, 2006 06:33 - NOUAKCHOTT - A Mauritania prosecutor has charged allies of the country's deposed president with conspiring to "overturn constitutional order"
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Aissata Kane - Mauritania
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
EURASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM AA ssata Kane - Mauritania Written on July 6th, 2006 in Personalities She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price
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Govt, South Africa Sign Mining Agreement
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania and South Africa have signed a mining co-operation agreement, official sources
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Storm, floods kill at least 7 in Mauritania -radio
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
At least seven people were killed and 19 were injured in severe storms and flooding that hit Mauritania at the weekend, state radio reported on
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Seven dead, dozens hurt in Mauritania desert storm
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Seven people died and dozens were injured when their homes collapsed in a thunderstorm in the Mauritanian Sahara, national media
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Seasonal Storm Leaves Seven Dead
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
At least seven people died and dozens more were injured when a seasonal storm ripped through Mauritania's south central regions of Trarza and Brakna at the weekend, according to state-run
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Urban Poor Scraping By With Little Aid
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Meeting the humanitarian challenge of Mauritania'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
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Waiting for the Rains, Poorest Struggle to Survive
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Water is as precious as gold in Mauritania'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 their heads and on
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Donor Attention Faltering But Hunger Continues - WFP
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The World Food Programme's director in the Mauritanian capital has warned that a sixth of the country's population are vulnerable to fluctuating food supplies and said international donor aid remains critical for
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Resources and infrastructure: Po
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Two main ethnic groups According to the latest census in 2000 the population of Mauritania was 2.55m, with a growth rate of 2.6% per
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Biological control of locusts
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
New weapons for old enemies During the 1988 desert locust plague, swarms crossed the Atlantic from Mauritania to the Caribbean, flying 5 000 kilometres in 10 days.
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Mauritania frees suspected Islamists
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania has released eight men suspected of belonging to an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebel group after 14 months in
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Seven dead in storm, floods
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
AT least seven people were killed and 19 injured in severe storms and flooding that hit Mauritania at the weekend, state radio reported
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Democracy sends out shoots in Mauritania
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Poverty-stricken nation moving from camels to Land Cruisers Mauritanian men, holding registration cards, wait to vote in a June referendum limiting terms in office and paving the way for elections.
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