Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the reported release from house arrest of the President of Mauritania, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was overthrown by the country's military in August,...
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The Mauritarian community in The Gambia recently wrote to the Gambian leader, President Yahya Jammeh, to thank him for his concern over the enormous challenges that their country is currently facing, among...
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One month after setting a deadline for Mauritania's coup leaders to restore constitutional order or face sanctions, the European Union said the junta's efforts have been "insufficient"...
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Despite the Mauritanian military junta's transfer of President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi from detention in the capital Nouakchott to his home village of Lemden, Mauritania's president remains...
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Sierra Leone Youth U-20 side, Shooting Stars will play its opening Group C match in West Africa Football Union WAFU against Mauritania on November 29.
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Environmental degradation, responsible for the dangerous displacement of sand dunes in Mauritania, has wiped out homes, livestock and livelihoods throughout the desert country. An October UN study estimated...
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the imprisonment of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, the editor of the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly "Al-Aqsa", on 30 November 2008 in Nouakchott on a criminal...
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Mauritania's security forces are again accused of routine and systematic torture of political opponents and Islamists accused of links with international terrorist groups. A report released by Amnesty...
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Mauritanian security forces have until recently been extracting prisoner confessions through torture - including sleep deprivation, cigarette burns, suspension from a metal bar, electric shocks, sexual...
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His Excellency, Alhajie Dr Yahya Jammeh, yesterday, received in audience representatives from the Mauritanian
community in The
Gambia...
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Mohamed Ould Moustapha, a cameraman with the local Mauritanian office of the Qatari
television network Al Jazeera, was assaulted on 8 October 2008 by trade union
activists...
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Following a
meeting between Mauritania's junta leaders and the European Union in
Paris, EU officials have given the
military...
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Topic : Mauritania
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As
Mauritania is to complete the third month under
military rule after a putsch has put an end to the democratic process in the
country...
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Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher and former minister, was arrested on 21 October 2008 in Nouakchott by members of the combined unit of the national gendarmerie following a
complaint...
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President Jakaya Kikwete has urged
Mauritius to urgently return to democratic rule if it needed to be recognised by other African
governments...
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Topic : Mauritania
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At the initiative of the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union AU, Mr. Jean Ping, a consultative and coordination meeting on the situation in Mauritania was held in Addis Ababa, at the Headquarters...
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Rwanda's four professionals summoned for national team duty have joined the Amavubi Stars' camp ahead of this weekend's 2010 World/Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Mauritania in Nouakchott...
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Rwanda will greatly be banking on Olivier Karekezi and Henri Munyaneza in Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Mauritania in Nouakchott.
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