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MAURITANIA: President calls on...
MAURITANIA: President calls on nation to pray for rain
IRIN
Friday, August 3, 2007
In true Sahelian fashion, the rainy season is late in coming to Mauritania, causing concern amongst experts and locals in the West African nation...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: New hope f...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: New hope for long-suffering Mauritanian refugees
IRIN
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This village seems typical of villages in northern Senegal - with thatched huts, women cooking on outdoor fires, children playing and men sitting...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: “I'll go b...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: “I'll go back now in search of justice… and fight for the soul of my country”
IRIN
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Mohammed Abdullah Dea served in the Mauritanian army before he and more than 60,000 black Mauritanians were expelled to Senegal between 1989 and...
Mauritania to repatriate its 1...
Mauritania to repatriate its 1988 Senegal based refugees
The Daily Observer Newspaper
Friday, July 13, 2007
Mauritania has agreed to repatriate all Mauritanian refugees trapped in Senegal since 1988. Thousands of Mauritanian refugees, mostly Blacks,...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: Refugees c...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: Refugees cautiously optimistic about new initiative
IRIN
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Tens of thousands of black Mauritanians living in exile for the past 18 years have officially begun the process of returning home from camps in...
Armed Robbers Strike in Basse
Armed Robbers Strike in Basse
The Point
Sunday, April 29, 2007
A shopkeeper lost his life in an armed robbery attack in Basse Mankamang Kunda on Sunday. The casualty was a Mauritanian. According to our...
MAURITANIA: New president elec...
MAURITANIA: New president elect starts to look ahead
IRIN
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Speaking at his first press conference after becoming president elect, Sidi ould Cheikh Abdalahi said he would do all he could to transform his vast,...
Armed robbery puts Firidawsy i...
Armed robbery puts Firidawsy in limelight
The Daily Observer
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Firidawsy Village in Niani Constituency in Central River Region has become renowned entry and exit route for cross border armed robbery incidents. ...
SENEGAL-MAURITANIA: Samba Djam...
SENEGAL-MAURITANIA: Samba Djamanka, “We were on the high seas for 20 days, without food or water”
IRIN
Monday, March 12, 2007
One month ago, Samba Djamanka was in the last semester of high school at Tanaf, a town in Senegal’s Casamance Region, when his father told him that...
MAURITANIA: Who will help the ...
MAURITANIA: Who will help the next stranded migrant ship?
IRIN
Monday, March 12, 2007
Diplomatic fallout over 400 mostly Asian migrants who had drifted for weeks in a ship off the coast of Mauritania has left governments less likely to...
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