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Italy to enhance security cooperation
afrol News, 13 January - Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has said Rome would back police and army training for Mauritania to help fight the threat of al-Qaeda. The pledge for support comes barely a week after al Qaeda linked group in the country claimed the kidnapping of two Italian nationals. Read more
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Media | Politics
CPJ demands release of detained editor
afrol News, 6 January - The international rights organisation, Committee to Protect Journalists has called for the release of the editor of Taquadoumy information site, Hanevi Ould Dehah, saying his continued detention is illegal. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
afrol News, 10 November - The United States African Development Foundation (USADF), in conjunction with the United States Embassy in Mauritania, hosted a ceremony to launch nearly $850,000 in development assistance to grassroots groups in Mauritania. Representatives from each group receiving USADF funds were in attendance. Read more
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Society | Human rights
Slavery still persists in Mauritania
afrol News, 4 November - Despite strong efforts by the toppled democratic government of Mauritania, slavery has yet to be rooted out in the country, a UN report documents. Under the new government, little progress is made to fight slavery.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
Mauritania gets $12 million to boost food production and lower imports
afrol News, 5 October - Mauritania has received a US$6 million loan and a US$6 million grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help develop the value chains of agricultural products and lower the country’s dependence on food imports. An additional $2 million will be provided as grant co-financing from Italian supplementary funds to IFAD. Read more
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Politics
Mauritania's democracy deal hailed
afrol News, 5 June - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed yesterday’s signing of an agreement between parties in Mauritania, calling it a “solid basis” for the West African nation’s return to constitutional order and the consolidation of democracy. Read more
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Politics
Mauritania election compromise reached
afrol News, 3 June - The democratic parties opposing Mauritania's coupist government have gained a milestone victory in the Dakar negotiations about a return to democracy. The presidential elections are to be postponed to 18 July, with the democratic parties participating, and a unity government will now be formed.
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Politics
Mediators push for later elections in Mauritania
afrol News, 2 June - A panel of mediators in Dakar have proposed Mauritania's presidential elections slated for 6 June to be postponed to 18 July. The talks which opened in Senegal last week seek to find the common ground for the ruling junta that took power in August 2008 and parties opposing the coup.
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Economy - Development | Technology
Morocco invests in fiber optic line to Western Sahara
afrol News, 22 May - Maroc Telecom has secured a US$ 1.3 billion investment programme, mostly financed by the Moroccan government. The programme will see major improvement and modernisation of Morocco's fixed-line and mobile networks, but also a new fiber optic cable to France and through Western Sahara into Mauritania.
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» 25.03.2009 - AU maintains sanctions despite Gaddafi’s call
» 06.03.2009 - Israeli embassy sent packing in Mauritania
» 09.02.2009 - Mauritania condemns AU sanctions
» 05.02.2009 - AU imposes sanctions on Mauritania
» 02.02.2009 - Mauritania to have new SA funded fish cannery
» 22.12.2008 - Ousted Mauritanian president set free
» 03.12.2008 - Mauritarian detainees subjected to torture – Amnesty international
» 28.10.2008 - Ex Mauritanian minister faces prison sentence
» 23.10.2008 - Senegalese leader opposes sanctions on Mauritania
» 08.10.2008 - ITUC slams aggressive repression of Mauritanian trade unionists
» 06.10.2008 - Junta breaks up coup protest
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