Mauritania
Mauritanian Islamic Republic
[French] République Islamique de Mauritanie
[Arabic] Al-Jumhuriyah; al-Islamiyah al-Muritaniyah
CAPITAL: Nouakchott
FLAG: The flag consists of a gold sta...
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Mauritania
Mauritania is located in West Africa and shares its frontiers with Senegal, Mali, Algeria, and Western Sahara. Its population of under 2.3 million inhabitants is an ethnic mosaic because of...
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Mauritania
POPULATION 2,828,858MUSLIM 100 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Islamic Republic of Mauritania lies on the West African coast. Largely arid and flat, the country is bordered t...
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Mauritania is a republic in Northwestern Africa. Mauritania is a free country, and became free by France. This country's citizens speak multiple languages. These include Arabic and French. Mauritania'...
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Area: 1,030,700 sq km (398,000 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 3,158,000Capital:
Nouakchott
Chief of state:
Chairman of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy
Ely Ould Mohamed
Vall
Head o...
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Mauritania's interior minister blamed a terrorist sleeper cell Wednesday for the Christmas Eve killing of four French family members visiting the African country.Mauritania, on the edges of the Sah...
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A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.The wood...
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (dpa) - German President Horst Koehler on
Thursday promised his country's help in Mauretania's democratization
process and fight against poverty.
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Mauritania has passed a law promising jail time for slave-holders, an important step in the northwest African country's push to eliminate a practice that has quietly persisted despite a 25-year-old...
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A boat of about 200 migrants _ most believed to be from Pakistan _ was waiting off the Mauritanian coast Monday after the West African country refused to receive the craft intercepted by Spanish au...
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Four men have been charged with abetting terrorists after four French tourists were gunned down on a roadside last month, justice officials said Sunday.Four of the eight suspects who appeared in a ...
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Two Mauritanians have been arrested for allegedly forcing two children to work as slaves — the first suspects to face prosecution for a practice that many in this African country consider par...
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Authorities arrested a man once convicted of terror links and eight others suspected of aiding a group that gunned down a French family last month, justice officials said Monday.Witnesses said thre...
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Blue-robed nomads, village elders, lawyers and civil servants stream into Mauritania's presidential palace, urging the bespectacled man who seized control of this desert nation in a coup to stay in...
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Facts about the African Nation of Mauritania
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