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News: Mauritania

We have started to collect the most important news related to Mauritania in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Migrant ship docks in Mauritania

Monday, February 12th 2007, 19:19

Hundreds of migrants come ashore in Mauritania, after spending a week off the coast on a stricken ship.
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Mauritania 'to let migrants land'

Saturday, February 10th 2007, 14:52
related countries: Spain Spain

Mauritania agrees to let a stricken ship carrying several hundred migrants ashore, the Spanish government says.
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Mauritania helps stricken migrants

Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 15:46

A boat delivers food and water to a ship carrying migrants, anchored off the Mauritanian coast.
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Mauritania rejects migrant boat

Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 2:00
related countries: Spain Spain

Mauritania refuses to allow a ship with migrants to dock after it broke down and a Spanish boat towed it ashore.
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No majority after Mauritania poll

Tuesday, December 5th 2006, 9:58

Results from a second round of voting in Mauritania's parliamentary elections show no party has a majority.
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Opposition leads Mauritania race

Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 7:33

The opposition wins the first stage of Mauritania's first poll since a coup ended 20 years of authoritarian rule.
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Mauritania stages historic poll

Sunday, November 19th 2006, 19:17

Mauritanians vote in the first election since last year's bloodless coup ended 20 years of authoritarian rule.
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Africa warned over locust swarms

Thursday, October 12th 2006, 8:23

North and West Africa is placed on alert for a locust outbreak, which devastated Mauritania two years ago.
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Mauritania finds migrant bodies

Sunday, August 27th 2006, 4:29
related countries: Spain Spain

Police in Mauritania say at least eight have died trying to illegally enter the Spanish Canary Islands by boat.
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Mauritania backs 'new democracy'

Monday, June 26th 2006, 16:20

Mauritanians overwhelmingly back a new constitution imposing term limits on presidents.
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Arrests as Gambia 'coup foiled'

Wednesday, March 22nd 2006, 13:40
related countries: The Gambia The Gambia

Several army officers are arrested suspected of plotting to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh.
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