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[HRInfo]Cairo: -The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), today, condemned the detention of a number of journalists, by Mauritanian security forces, against the backdrop of their profession....

[The Herald]AN unnamed Mauritius Stock Exchange-listed company is set to inject US$30 million for a controlling stake in Allied Financial Holdings, the parent company of financial services entity, Allied Bank....

[Africa Top Sports]Egypt is gradually returning in the circle of great nations. In trouble in the last two years under Bob Bradley with two Afcon finals missed, the Pharaohs began a new era including the appointment of Neck Fawzy Gharib at the helm of the team since last December....

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -A Mauritanian university student died Monday (March 3rd) as hundreds took to the streets of Nouakchott to protest the alleged desecration of the Qur'an....

[UN News]The establishment of a special Tribunal to prosecute crimes of slavery in Mauritania bring the country one step closer to effectively ending the practice of slavery, an independent United Nations expert said, calling on the Government to deploy all necessary efforts to making this a reality....

Abdullah al-Senussi, extradited back to Libya and accused of human rights abuses, 'ails behind bars without lawyers' Muammar Gaddafi's former righthand man is languishing in a Libyan jail with kidney cancer and no access to lawyers, his daughter announced on Wednesday, calling for him to have a fair trial. Abdullah al-Senussi, who as spy chief was one of most feared men in Libya, fled the rebellion...

[African Union]Mauritania Foreign Minister and AU Executive Council President in audience with AUC Chairperson...

Libya's prime minister Abdurrahim el-Keib says Muammar Gaddafi's infamous former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi is back on 'Libyan soil' after being extradited by Mauritania to face charges of crimes against humanity. The move could help shed fresh light on the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Senussi has been in custody in Mauritania since March, after slipping illegally into the country...

Officials in Mauritania return Senussi to Libya six months after he slipped into their country on false passport Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi, the man thought to have orchestrated the Lockerbie bombing, was extradited to Libya from Mauritania on Wednesday amid an international legal tussle over where he should face trial. Officials in Mauritania returned Senussi to Libya six...

Muammar Gaddafi's spy master should have been tried at the international criminal court which indicted him last year The extradition of Abdullah al-Senussi, Gaddafi's spy master, from Mauritania for trial in Tripoli is a blow to international justice and to the government's pretended support for it. Although one of the worst men left in the world, Senussi should have been tried, first and fairly, at...

[Magharebia]Tripoli, Siham Ali in Rabat, Jamel Arfaoui in Tunis and Jemal Oumar in Nouakchott -Top diplomats from across North Africa gathered in Tripoli on Saturday (February 15th) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)....

[IRIN]Gorgol/Brakna -Drought-prone, chronically hungry Mauritania, with the help of the UN, is reaching out to Arab donors, encouraging them to reach beyond their customary role in development and engage in humanitarian response....

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Mauritanian Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf presented his new government on Wednesday (February 12th)....

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Touaregs are determined to show that they promote tolerance and combat extremism....

[Africa Top Sports]It is official since Wednesday! Mauritania are facing Niger in a friendly match on March 5 as part of the FIFA day friendlies. Shared between the Hawks of Togo and the Mena of Niger, Mourabitounes finally made their choice....

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -The first Mauritania Investment Forum wrapped up Monday evening (January 27th) in the Nouadhibou Free Zone....

[SPS]Nouakchott -The UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, received today in Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, by Dr. Moulay Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania....

t call them "Americans" if they were from Brazil and the United States, even though the distance between the two is the same – and the economic conditions as different. You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island). Yet for a continent of one billion people three times the size of the US,...

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Dozens of youths from different parts of Mauritania gathered in Nouakchott to attend a three-day leadership and communication training workshop focusing on public policy....

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