Mauritania News

Mauritania is a land of striking beauty. With sand dunes lined against the sky, Bedouins riding camels in the countryside, and flying beetles that look like they come straight from the abyss of the Apocalypse; Mauritania is a land of extremes - extreme beauty, extreme hospitality, and lately, extreme religion.

Ndey Sall, a resident of Sixieme, one of the poorest suburbs in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, spends the equivalent of a dollar a day on water.

Celebration, trepidation as U.S. troops leave Iraqi towns Brightly colored tinsel adorned a large tent seating dozens of dignitaries, a canned version of the Iraqi national anthem blared, and local leaders gave fiery speeches about Iraqi sovereignty during a celebration of Tuesday's deadline for U.S. forces to withdraw from Iraqi cities.

Al-Jazeera TV reported last week that it received an audio statement from al-Qaeda's North African branch claiming responsibility for the June 23 shooting death of an American aid worker in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

The family of an American man who was slain by extremists linked to al-Qaida while doing humanitarian work in Mauritania said Monday it has forgiven his killers.

Relatives and friends of a slain humanitarian aid worker remembered his commitment to bettering lives in West Africa where he moved from Tennessee and his unabashed Christian beliefs that an al-Qaida group said was the reason he was gunned down.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 02:35 Mecca time, 23:35 GMT Ousted Mauritania president resigns Mauritania's first freely elected president has formally resigned from office, paving the way for new elections more than 10 months after he was overthrown in a military coup.

Glass of wine leads to arrest Time is running out Sweetbay Beef Recall A chilling revelation Could the rape and murder of Coralrose Fullwood have been videotaped? One man says it was and he knows where the tape is.

The bird, nicknamed Heidenskip, appears to have flown from Friesland via Spain and over the Sahara in one go.

NOUAKCHOTT: Rivals in Mauritania have agreed on a way to overcome all the obstacles to a political settlement and achieve a new transitional government, a mediator, Habib Kabachi, said yesterday.

DUBAI: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for this week's murder of an American teacher in the Mauritanian capital, US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence said yesterday.

As perceptions of beauty change and obesity-related diseases rise, more women in Mauritania are fighting back against force-feeding, according to the government.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania a ' Al-Jazeera TV says Al-Qaidaa TMs North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American aid worker shot dead this week in Mauritaniaa TMs capital.

Al-Jazeera TV says Al-Qaida claims responsibility for killing American in Mauritania.

An aid worker from Cleveland, Tenn., working in the capital of the African nation of Mauritania was shot and killed today during an attempted kidnapping, according to authorities there.

Nouakchott - A group of youths shot dead an American man on Tuesday in the centre of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, a police source said.

Gunmen shot and killed an American man Tuesday as he left his car in the capital of the West African nation of Mauritania, police and witnesses said.

Mauritania, a few kilometres after Nouakchott, on the "hope road" that links the capital to Nema, 1100 km at the east.

The empty health clinic in a remote part of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a legacy of what sometimes goes wrong when the military takes the lead on civil affairs projects, despite good intentions.

History will judge who lost Mauritania, writes Gamal Nkrumah It has been some time now since the complacent official narrative about the Mauritanian military's interference in politics has passed muster.