Mauritania
French tour company resumes Mauritania operations
2009-11-18
Point Afrique will resume charter flights to the Mauritanian desert city of Atar next month, the French tour operator announced on Tuesday (November...
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Morocco seeks closer ties with Mauritania
2009-11-17
Moroccan Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi-Fihri met with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Nouakchott on Monday (November 16th) to discuss...
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Mauritania touts counter-terror operations near Mali border
2009-11-17
Mauritanian security forces took reporters on their first-ever tour of counter-terrorism operations in the restive desert region of Adrar on Friday (...
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Mauritania holds anti-slavery workshop for police, justice officials
2009-11-16
Mauritania held a workshop on Sunday (November 15th) to educate law enforcement and justice officials on slavery-related issues, DPA reported. The No...
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Mauritania arrests 34 harragas along Morocco border
2009-11-12
Mauritanian security services arrested 34 African would-be immigrants along the border with Morocco, 55km north of Nouadhibou, international press re...
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Mauritania hosts European Union, West Africa fisheries conference
2009-11-11
A conference on EU-West Africa fisheries agreements opened in Nouakchott on Tuesday (November 10th), PANA reported. The 3-day meeting is attended by...
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Algeria, Mauritania plan joint war on locusts
2009-11-11
Algerian teams are on the alert for locust infiltration in the country's southern areas, and other personnel will collaborate with colleagues in Mauritania to stamp out the destructive insects.
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Mauritanian NGOs receive US grant
2009-11-10
The US African Development Foundation (USADF) has granted development assistance funds to eight Mauritanian NGOs in Adrar, Kaédi, Guidimakha, M' Bout...
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Mauritania Parliament session opens with call for political unity
2009-11-10
The Mauritanian Parliament opened the 2009-2010 session on Monday (November 9th) with calls for reconciliation and unity, local press reported. In hi...
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Al Jazeera reporters arrested in Mauritania
2009-11-09
Mauritanian authorities on Sunday (November 8th) released three journalists for Qatari satellite television channel Al Jazeera after two days in jail...
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Ruling party sweeps Mauritania senatorial elections
2009-11-09
Mauritania's ruling Union for the Republic (UPR) party won 12 of the 17 Senate seats up for renewal on Sunday (November 8th). Voters deciding one-thi...
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Mauritanian voters renew one-third of Senate
2009-11-08
Mauritanians began voting on Saturday (November 7th) to renew one-third of the 56-member senate. The upper house of the Mauritanian parliament has 53...
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EU delegation, Mauritania discuss Sahel security
2009-11-08
European Union diplomats ended their assessment mission to Nouakchott on Saturday (November 7th), local and international press reported. The visit...
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Controversial Mauritanian film examines young man's path to extremism
2009-11-06
Some Muslim clerics and scholars have roundly condemned the most lauded film at Mauritania's recent SENAF festival. The young producer discusses the reasons for the furor.
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Spain donates surveillance aircraft to Mauritania
2009-11-06
To help Mauritania combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, Spain donated an airplane equipped with marine surveillance technology, ANI repor...
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Mauritania launches anti-begging campaign
2009-11-05
Mauritania on Wednesday (November 4th) launched a large-scale campaign to eradicate begging, ANI reported. The programme will offer vocational traini...
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Somali instability worries Maghreb neighbours
2009-11-05
As radical groups in Somalia grow in power, new concerns are mounting in the Maghreb about how to keep young people from adopting extremist ideologies.
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UN investigates modern-day slavery in Mauritania
2009-11-02
A United Nations mission will be in Mauritania through November 4th to evaluate slavery practices in the country, ANI and Journal Tahalil reported on...
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Mauritania seeks terror suspect's extradition from Niger
2009-10-30
Mauritania on Thursday (October 29th) officially asked Niger to extradite an important terror suspect, PANA reported. Taghi Ould Youssouf allegedly p...
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Spain pledges support to Mauritania
2009-10-30
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Wednesday (October 28th) assured visiting Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of his...
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Mauritanian press freedom a priority for new president
2009-10-30
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz met with a delegation from Reporters without Borders (RSF) during his first state visit to France this...
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Wanted Mauritanian terrorist caught in Niger
2009-10-27
Security services in Niger earlier this month arrested a high-profile Mauritanian terror suspect, Journal Tahalil quoted security services as saying...
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Mauritania contains locust outbreak, UN says
2009-10-27
Emergency operations by Mauritania's National Locust Centre "successfully contained a massive outbreak of desert locusts, which were threatening to s...
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Mauritania, France launch joint military exercises
2009-10-26
French and Mauritanian army troops began joint training exercises in Atar, Nouakchott daily ANI reported on Sunday (October 25th). The military-co-op...
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UN to return last Mauritanian refugees from Senegal
2009-10-26
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will soon repatriate the last remaining Mauritanian refugees from Senegal, the UN news agency announced...
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