mauritania

Welcome to the 'mauritania' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'mauritania'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mauritania”

• Arab Monetary Fund Grants $47m Loan to Mauritania

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) has granted to Mauritania a loan for $47 million designed to restructure the country’s financial sector. The loan will help conduct urgent structural reforms of the Mauritanian public finance sector through the devolution via transfer scheduling to departments, the creation of financial ...
  5 hours ago

• Scott Johnson Of Newsweek Is An Idiot

  
  PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN — Authority: 142
  ‘The Maghreb Myth: America Wants To Expand The War On Terror To Northern Africa. It Shouldn’t’ By Scott Johnson for Newsweek . I read this article twice just to make sure that Scott Johnson actually thinks that Al Qaeda is organizing in North Africa because it wants to conquer the Sahara Desert. Apparently ...
  1 day ago

• Togo to Host 7th International Trade Fair

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Some 550 exhibitors from several countries in the world are expected at the Lome 7th International Trade Fair which opens on Friday in the Togolese capital. The director of the Togo Exhibitions Center (CETEF) Kueku-Banka Johnson said during a press conference that exhibitors are from 16 countries namely, Benin, ...
  4 days ago

• Ghana Energy Minister visits oil vessel construction site

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 137
  A delegation led by the Minister of Energy, Dr. Joseph Oteng-Adjei, has visited three of the yards involved with the construction of the Jubilee Field Offshore Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) in Singapore, according to a statement released in Accra on Wednesday by Tullow Ghana Limited.The ...
  5 days ago

• Corruption: Nigeria’s rating plunges, ranked 130th – Vanguard

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 152
  Transparency International yesterday ranked Nigeria 130th out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2009 corruption perception index.This shows that Nigeria’s rating has dropped from the 121 position it occupied in the index last year.Transparency International Perception Index which was released yesterday in Paris, ...
  6 days ago

• Al Qaeda Africa wing less a threat to Europe - U.S.

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 725
  Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Al Qaedas North African wing is less likely now to carry out attacks in Europe, mainly because of pressure on the group from Algerian security forces, a U.S. counter- ...
  6 days ago

• French firm to restart Mauritania desert flights

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 725
  Source: Reuters NOUAKCHOTT, Nov 17 (Reuters) - French tour operator Point Afrique will re-start its weekly charter flights to the Mauritanian desert town of Atar, the firm said on Tuesday, reviving a route cut due to ...
  6 days ago

• Illegal Migrants Escape From Mauritanian Shelters

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The 34 Malian illegal immigrants, deported on Wednesday by Moroccan authorities and blocked at the border with Mauritania, have left their reception center for an unknown destination. The so-called illegal immigrants escaped in small groups from tents set up by the Mauritanian Red Cross which also provided food and ...
  1 week ago

• Slavery: Mauritania moves to end slavery

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 490
  DPA reports Mauritanias government has begun to educate its law enforcement and justice officials about slavery, in what it said was an effort to crack down on the practice.Mauritania has long been considered by human rights groups as a safe haven for slavery, with people still being bought and sold and then held as ...
  1 week ago

• More travellers

  
  Urban Sketchers — Authority: 519
   From the end of October lasting to the end of April the flow of travelers increases throughout Western Africa, the weather gets cooler rarely going over 30ºC and the nights get cooler.  At Auberge Sahara its the time of the big rallys coming in. Most of them are doing charity races and the cars end up being ...
  1 week ago

• Obama hires Iranian regime lobbyist for key State Department position

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 492
  Oy Gevalt. Creeping Sharia informs us that, "Politico reported that the Obama administration appointed, unannounced, John Limbert as a senior Iran official at the State Department. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to be exact."Who is John Limbert?  Politico explains:A former ...
  1 week ago

• Mauritanian Islamists: Political Islam beyond the War of Ideas

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 408
  Tawassoul, Mauritania’s principle Islamist political party, announced this week that it would join forces with now ruling Union for the Republic, the party of president General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Tawassoul’s leader, Jamil Mansour, spent the better part of the last year in opposition to Ould Abdel Aziz, who ...
  1 week ago

• Senegalese Authorities Deport Mauritanian Terror Suspect

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Senegalese authorities have deported back to Nouakchott the Mauritanian citizen Taleb Ould Ahmednah. Ould Ahmednah is accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). He was arrested two months ago in Dakar where he was questioned by local authorities about his false papers. In the ...
  1 week ago

• Mauritanian Opposition Party Criticizes ‘reprehensible’ Government Poll Practices

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The Assembly of Democratic Forces (RFD) of Ahmed Ould Daddah accused the Mauritanian government of using “reprehensible procedures” during the senatorial elections which took place on Sunday. “This shows how the government is keen on altering the will of the Mauritanian people and preventing them from ...
  1 week ago

• Upcoming

  
  The Moor Next Door — Authority: 408
  A post on Tawassoul is forth coming.Posted in Africa, Islamism, Mauritania, Third World
  2 weeks ago

• MAURITANIA: Dont abandon us, HIV-positive community tells donors

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 725
  Source: IRIN People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of which they are suffering the consequences.
  2 weeks ago

• The Long Shadow Of Slavery In Mauritania

  
  Covenant Zone — Authority: 570
  The Islamic Republic of Mauritanias tradition of chattel slavery is back in the news this week. A special report issued by Gulnara Shahinian, the first United Nations " Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery ", reveals how little progress has been made in ending slavery within the borders of that West ...
  2 weeks ago

• HSV Swift visits Nuoakchott, Mauritania

  
  Database of Press Releases related to Africa — Authority: 519
  HSV Swift visits Nuoakchott, Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, November 5, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — By Commander, US Naval Forces Europe-Commander, US Naval Forces Africa/Commander, US Sixth Fleet Public Affairs High-Speed Vessel 2 Swift (HSV 2) pulled into Nuoakchott, Mauritania, Nov. 5, to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Slavery: Mauritania must do more to end slavery

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 490
  While noting the significant steps that have been taken in Mauritania to tackle slavery, an independent United Nations human rights expert today called for a comprehensive strategy to put an end to this scourge, warning of its impact on the country’s future.“Unaddressed, slavery in all its forms may be an obstacle ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN assembly set to call for probes of Gaza war

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 725
  Source: Reuters * Nonbinding resolution looks certain to pass * UN General Assembly meeting to resume Thursday * Israel condemns report as "conceived in hate" (Adds adjournment of debate) By Patrick ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about mauritania