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Three Ambassadors Present Credentials to President

THREE ambassadors from South Korea, Nigeria and Mauritania -- which has just established diplomatic ties with Zimbabwe -- presented their credentials to President Mugabe at State House in Harare yesterday.

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Five fishermen reported missing in Mauritanian seas

Nouakchott, Mauritania - Five fishermen are reported missing off Mauritan ia's port town of Nouadhibou (465 kilometres north of Nouakchott), according to Wednesday's report from the Mauritanian News Agency (ANI).

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Mauritanian president visits Spain

Nouakchott, Mauritania - Mauritanian president, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, left here Wednesday for Spain on a two-day visit, official sources told PANA.

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Mauritania gets economic, social council

Nouakchott, Mauritania - The Mauritanian government has set up a 35-member Economic and Social Council (CES) at an extraordinary meeting held here Tuesday, according to a government statement issued Wednesday.

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Journalist, Publisher Arrested Over Article On Judicial Corruption

Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and Mohamed Nema Oumar, respectively journalist and publisher on the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly "Al-Hurriya", in connection with a "defamation" complaint from three judges at the criminal appeal court.

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Mauritania: A Journalist And Publisher Arrested for Accusing Judges of Corruption

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of Mohamed Ould Abdelatif and Mohamed Nema Oumar, respectively journalist and publisher on the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly al-Hurriya in connection with a "defamation" complaint from three judges at the criminal appeal court.

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2 journalists charged for libel in Mauritania

Nouakchott, Mauritania - The Managing Editor of the Arab weekly newspaper El Houriya, Mohamed Nema Omar, and a reporter with the same organisation, Moham e d Abdel Latif, were arrested and remanded in custody here Monday, a source here said Tuesday.

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Awainatt Zbill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Rosso, Mauritania

Jump to the full entry & travel map Rosso, Mauritania Ahhahh!  Success!  We all learned our respective permanent sites today, and I am in for quite an adventure.....Seriously...   I am heading to a town called Awainatt Zbill, in the southeast of Mauritania.   Awainatt Zbill , which literally translates to 'cow shit', has a population of 8,000 and is not far from Mali. ...

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MAURITANIA: Bumps along the road to refugee resettlement

Source: IRIN The return of over 4,000 Mauritanian refugees who have been living in exile in Senegal for almost two decades has been smooth on the whole, but in some cases tensions are arising as refugees complain about their new living conditions and come up against difficulties in reclaiming their land.

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Africa’s Great Green Wall

The 25-member African organisation CEN-SAD (Community of Sahel-Saharan States) has initiated a project to build a Great Green Wall across the continent from Mauritania in West Africa to Djibouti in the East. The project is an attempt to stop growing desertification in the northern regions of the continent. Other key objectives of the Great Green Wall initiative include conservation and recovery of...

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Mbalal - Rosso, Mauritania

Jump to the full entry & travel map Rosso, Mauritania Greetings from Mauritania!   We are back at the training center and will be here for a few days getting our last round of shots (yeah!) and sitting in on a few more training sessions.  And..... on Monday we finally get to find out where our permanent sites will be!  There has been a lot of speculation, but none of us really have no...

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Arriving ATAR Mauritania - Atar, Mauritania

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Napping - Rosso, Mauritania

Jump to the full entry & travel map Rosso, Mauritania Hello again,   All is still well over here in Mauritania.  I had a nice relaxing weekend, meaning there was really nothing for me to do....That is not exactly true, but I guess I am just not entirely used to the Mauritanian lifestyle, which consists of a consecutive series of catnaps throughout each day.  Seriously, napping is one...

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Migrants stay in squalor rather than return home - 13 Jul 08

For many migrants trying to reach Europe, their journeys end well before they’re able to leave Africa. They get caught and deported, ending up in transit countries like Mauritania, Mali and Niger. As Casey Kauffman reports from Mali, many prefer to live the in squalid conditions of the so-called ghettos, than return home in shame. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Source: [...]

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Mauritanian Senate ratifies fishing agreement with EU

Mauritania's Senate Wednesday passed a bill for the ratification of the four-year fishing agreement signed on 13 March 2008 between the government and the European Union (EU). During the Senate's plenary, Minister of Fishing, Assane Soumaré, said the agreement, which covers the period 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2012, was different from the previous one concluded for a two-year period.