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Storm, floods kill at least 7 in Mauritania -radio
Topix
- 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
Topix
- 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
allAfrica.com
- 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
Topix
- 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
Topix
- 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
Topix
- 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
Topix
- 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
Topix
- 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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FEATURE-A year after coup, Mauritania heads towards democracy
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Rising above a sand-covered street in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott is a billboard with an image of a Manhattan-style
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Mauritian Lobby in SA to Promote Economic Reforms
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
A MAURITIAN delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Rama Sithanen is visiting SA to promote a radical economic reform programme aimed at attracting foreign
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MAURITANIA: From fear to hope
IRIN
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Although Mauritania's transitional government has turned out to be a suprise success, a question mark hangs over the country's post-election future, and some lingering nervousness among Mauritanians shows a waryness about the prospects for a long-term
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African exodus leaves 17 dead after blast on boat
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
At least 17 African migrants died trying to reach Spain after a gas bottle exploded on their boat, aid workers said yesterday, as European and African governments struggled to stem the exodus of illegal ...
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20 arrested for arson as fires ravage Spain
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
More than 100 fires raged out of control across Spain's northwestern region of Galicia and in neighboring Portugal on Friday, as the Spanish interior minister revealed that 20 people had been arrested on
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16 illegal immigrants found dead
Topix
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
The bodies of 11 who died during the trip were thrown overboard into the Atlantic Ocean from the dug-out canoe crammed with some 97 passengers, police chief for northern Nouadhibou city, Yahfdhou Ould Amar,
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From Fear to Hope
allAfrica.com
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
At the end of an IRIN interview about child malnutrition a Mauritanian doctor paused, leaned over and whispered, "Be responsible how you quote me, things can happen to people
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MAURITANIA : Ex-police chief jailed over unpaid hotel bill
Moreover
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
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Al-Qaida-link' three escape from jail
Moreover
- Sunday, August 13, 2006
Al-Qaida-link' three escape from jail 27/04/2006 - 21:04:36 Three prisoners accused of belonging to an al-Qaida-linked Algerian militant group today escaped from a jail in Mauritania's capital, officials said.The three men were imprisoned on
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