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Mauritania grateful for Chinese aid package
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing announced a 20-million yuan aid package to Mauritania on Monday and pledged to encourage more Chinese companies to invest in the West African
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China calls for restraint in dispute over Iran's nuclear programme
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
NOUAKCHOTT : China called on the international community on Sunday to show restraint over Iran's nuclear programme, which has caused alarm among Western nations that see it as a cover for making nuclear
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Mauritania - Topix.net
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- Sunday, August 13, 2006
News on Mauritania continually updated from thousands of sources around the
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Islamists are jailed for expressing opinion, activists charge
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Twenty-five young Salafist Islamists have been locked up for over a year in a Nouakchott prison for expressing their opinions, according to the Mauritanian Human Rights Association chairperson, Fatimata M'Baye
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Mauritania: No Democracy for Opposition Voices
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
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
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Global Caste Discrimination
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
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
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Mauritania: Cease Harassment of Opposition
Human Rights Watch
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
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.
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Mauritanians warm to their coup d'etat
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
After a bloodless takeover last year, residents and other countries express cautious
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Mauritania Receives US$10 Million for Reforms in the Health Sector
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of US$10 million to assist the Government of Mauritania in the implementation of the human resource development pillar of its poverty reduction strategy
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Mauritania and Woodside sign oil deal
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The Mauritanian Government and Australia's Woodside Petroleum have signed four new oil production sharing contracts, putting an end to previous disagreements between the two
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Mauritanians warm to their coup d'etat
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
It sounds like the plot of a bad African spy movie.In a little-known country on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, where oil is just about to start flowing, the president leaves on an overseas trip and the army
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Mauritania signs amended oil contracts
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mauritania has signed an improved and amended contract with oil companies led by Australia's Woodside, AMI news agency reported
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Military junta scraps media censorship laws
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The military junta in Mauritania has adopted a new media law, scrapping previous requirements for newspapers to obtain government permits before publishing, according to reports on
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Mauritania starts campaign for constitutional reforms
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
NOUAKCHOTT: Official campaigning for the forthcoming constitutional referendum in Mauritania scheduled for June 25 begins this weekend, the state news agency said
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US opens new front in Africa
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
US opens new war front in North Africa By Jason Motlagh Despite a setback in Somalia, where anti-Islamist warlords recently lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, to a jihadist militia, the United States is
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Nouakchott hosts regional workshop on migration
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A four-day international workshop on the control of illegal migration entered its second day here Tuesday with participating countries sharing experiences on ways to curb the
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NGO slams Islamist arrests
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
NGO slams Islamist arrests Tuesday June 13, 2006 11:45 - NOUAKCHOTT - A Mauritanian rights organisation has deplored the "arbitrary" arrests of suspected members of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebel
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9 months later, coup not so costly to Mauritania
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
It sounds like the plot of a bad African spy movie. In a little-known country on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, where oil is just about to start flowing, the president leaves on an overseas trip and the army
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US opens new war front in North Africa
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Despite a setback in Somalia, where anti-Islamist warlords recently lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, to a jihadist militia, the United States is plunging into a far vaster set of commitments, stretching
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Mauritania pardons six detained Islamists -source
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A Mauritanian court has pardoned six men who admitted membership of an al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebel group but denied any involvement in plotting attacks, a senior judicial source said on
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