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14 min ago | BBC

Mauritania timeline

A chronology of key events: 3rd-7th centuries AD - Berber and Arab migrants displace the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania.

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Tue Feb 09, 2010

China Daily

SOE inks deal in Mauritania to build drainage works

BEIJING: China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd , a leading State-owned enterprise on infrastructure construction of China, signed a 1.36-billion-yuan contract with Drainage Board of Department of Energy, Mauritania, said CGGC Tuesday.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

Customer Interaction Solutions

Nouakchott/ parliamentary Workshop: final declaration calls for...

The parliamentary Workshop "Female Genital Mutilation and the Law", organised jointly by No Peace Without Justice and the Mauritanian Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children , together with the Mauritanian Network of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, concluded yesterday with the adoption of a ...

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Fri Feb 05, 2010

AllAfrica.com

Mauritania: Imams Act to End Female Cut

Islamic religious leaders in Mauritania are again in the spotlight for their role in eliminating female circumcision.

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Thu Feb 04, 2010

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Culture

Fourteen candidates will compete for the Miss Luanda 201 0 beauty pageant, to be held during a gala at the Tropical Cinema in Luanda on 2 9 January.

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Tue Feb 02, 2010

Xinhuanet

Mauritanian police arrest Moroccan for suspected role in abducting Spaniards

Mauritanian police arrested a Moroccan national suspected of having taken part in the abduction of three Spanish aid workers who were kidnapped on Nov.

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Mon Feb 01, 2010

Tehran Times

Israel poses major threat to Muslim world: Leader

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei stated here on Tuesday that the Zionist regime poses a major threat to the Muslim world.

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Sat Jan 30, 2010

AlertNet

MAURITANIA: Fatwa alone will not stop FGM/C

A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.

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Fri Jan 29, 2010

The Daily Star

Iran official: German diplomats involved in December 'riots'

TEHRAN: Iranian media reported on Wednesday that two German diplomats were detained last month due to involvement in anti-government protests, but Berlin said it was unaware any of its staff in Iran had been arrested.

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Wed Jan 27, 2010

Hindustan Times

Spanish hostages are fine: Al Qaeda

The three Spanish aid workers kidnapped nearly two months ago in Mauritania are in good health, says a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that claimed responsibility for the abduction.

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Mon Jan 25, 2010

Tehran Times

Iran, Mauritania presidents seek regional and intl. cooperation

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and his Mauritanian counterpart Mohammad Ould Abdel Aziz have called for the expansion of cooperation between the two countries.

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Sat Jan 23, 2010

Al Jazeera

Conflict solutions in Mauritania

There's a really new trend that has started to emerge since last year, one of peaceful dialogue with al-Qaeda. Mauritania is a tiny nation on the margins of the modern world.

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Fri Jan 22, 2010

AlertNet

Mauritanian Muslim imams initiate rare ban on female circumcision

Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation in West Africa got a boost this week as news emerged that a group of Muslim clerics and scholars in Mauritania had declared a fatwa, or religious decree, against the practice.

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Thu Jan 21, 2010

People's Daily Online

Mauritanian president meets Chinese engineering company chief

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday met with visiting Sang Yuanming, director general of China Overseas Engineering Group Company.

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Wed Jan 20, 2010

Xinhuanet

Mauritanian president to visit Turkey, Iran

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will leave on Friday for visits to Turkey and Iran, according to the government.

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Mon Jan 18, 2010

Recycling Today

Mauritania Moves to Increase its Iron Ore Output

European funding provided to increase iron ore output in African nation. Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere , based in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, has announced plans to set up a 4 million-tons-per-year concentrated iron ore plant in the African nation's Al-Zouerate region.

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Sun Jan 17, 2010

BBC News

Mauritania fatwa bans mutilation

Thirty four Islamic scholars in Mauritania have signed a fatwa, or religious opinion, banning the practice of female genital mutilation.

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Sat Jan 16, 2010

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Agriculture

Grasslands have vast untapped potential to mitigate clim ate change by absorbing and storing Carbon Dioxide , according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Orga nisation .

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Thu Jan 14, 2010

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Mauritania recognizes Kosovo

Mauritania has recognized 'the independence of Kosovo', the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Pristina announced on Wednesday.

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Wed Jan 13, 2010

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Agriculture

Ghana has increased the producer price of cocoa by 8.6 per cent, jumping up from 2,208 Ghana cedis to 2,400 Ghana cedis per tonne .

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