Mauritania News

Police in Mauritania accidentally wounded two civilians Wednesday during a search for al-Qaida-linked gunmen believed connected to the killing of four French tourists in December, witnesses said. via Las Vegs Sun

Mauritanian security forces Tuesday launched grenades on a house where Islamist radicals had escaped to after clashing with police and soldiers on Monday, the local news agency ANI reported. via Earth Times

“The fleet of the new airline will be five planes - three Boeing 737 and two small planes for interior and regional flights”

NOUAKCHOTT: Qatar Amir Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday signed a deal to launch a new airline in Mauritania during a visit to the West African nation. via Gulf Daily News

“The fleet of the new airline will be five planes: three Boeing 737 and two small planes for interior and regional flights”

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani received at his residence in Nouakchott yesterday the Mauritanian Premier Al-Zein Ould Zeidane. via Gulf Times

A fifth tourist was injured in the attack but survived A man accused of being involved in the murder of four French tourists has escaped from police in Mauritania before he was due to go on trial. via BBC

Li Changchun, a senior official of the Communist Party of China , said Tuesday that China will enhance mutual political trust and strengthen bilateral cooperation with Mauritania. via Huliq.com

An International Monetary Fund mission led by Mr. Dominique Guillaume visited Nouakchott on March 8-21, 2008 to carry out the Article IV consultations for 2008 and conduct the third review under the three-year ... via International Monetary Fund

Mohamed Salem Ould Mohamed, reporter with Assiraj, an Arabic language newspaper, was on March 25, 2008, arrested and detained at the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Mauritanian ... via AllAfrica.com

Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, began an official goodwill visit to Mauritania Tuesday. via People's Daily Online

“We are waiting for a good time to buy to replenish our stock, but that time never comes.”

NOUAKCHOTT, 24 March 2008 - Ali Sambadga showed IRIN the contents of his village grain bank - there are just two tonnes of maize left to help thousands of villagers stave off hunger over the next few months. via IRIN News

“When you go out in mixed society, life is hard”

Enlarge Photo COMMENT By Nora Boustany Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 23, 2008; Page A13 Boubacar Messaoud remembered strolling from the flatlands of Mauritania toward the southern town of ... via The Washington Post

“High prices make it increasingly difficult for us to retain the levels country's central emergency grain reserve”

NOUAKCHOTT, 19 March 2008 - Food security experts predict that Mauritania, where 70 percent of food eaten is imported, may face its highest ever levels of hunger in 2008, and aid agency representatives are ... via IRIN

“Mango Republic'. P.S. We have been celebrating March 23 as our 'Republic Day”

Topic started by SalmanBkhan on Mar 17, 2008 2:26:02 am By Dr Farrukh Saleem Islamic means deeds or acts based on the "religious system founded by the Prophet Muhammad and taught by the Quran". A republic is a ... via Chowk

“Obasanjo awarded 370m naira power contract to blacklisted firm”

The danger that financial turmoil and an economic slowdown in industrialized countries will derail promising economic growth in the develo p ing world is likely to be at the heart of debate when senior ... via Panapress

As part of the Francophone cinema festival Cinema Territory, eight films made in Belgium, Canada, France, Morocco, Mauritania, Romania and Switzerland will be shown. via Kyiv Post

“If our client is not freed, we will take all necessary action in the coming weeks”

Lawyers for a Mauritanian suspected of involvement in the September 11 attacks and held at Guantanamo Bay have threatened to sue U.S., Jordanian and Mauritanian officials they accuse of responsibility for his ... via Reuters UK

“Funding was politically driven and unequal. We are trying to change this.”

Mauritania is on track to reach the Millennium Development Goal of enrolling all children in primary school, but government officials told IRIN education quality has plummeted. via AllAfrica.com

Sudan and the United Nations- African Union Mission in Darfur on Saturday signed the Status of Forces Agreement in Khartoum which, among other things, provides the ...... 10/02/2008 Darfour... IN-DEPTH ... via Panapress

Mauritania has described the recent Israeli attacks against residents of the Gaza Strip as "a collective punishment aimed at undermining the efforts to restore trust between the Israeli and Palestinian sides." ... via Panapress

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania : A Mauritanian man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for his alleged affiliation with a group linked to al-Qaida. Judge Khaye Ould Ahmedou said Haround Ould Habib will ... via International Herald Tribune