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Spaniards Kidnapped In Mauritania

In a breaking news from Mauritania, three Spanish citizens [two men and one women] were kidnapped when they were travelling on a caravan between the capital of the African country Nouakchott to the city of Nouadhibou. One person managed to escape from the attempted...

Election In Mauritania: General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Wins

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has won the Presidential election in the Islamic nation of Mauritania with 52.6% of the vote, which saw 61% of the eligible voters taking to the polls. The majority of the vote seized by Abdel Aziz will be enough to avoid a run off vote....

Illegal construction continues unabated in Mussoorie

Mussoorie has been under the scanner of supreme court monitoring committee sisnce 1990 when after an agitation the lime stone minning was stopped in Mussoorie.After which SCMC got the right to monitor thr illegal...

Chief Secy Pande approves parking facilities in Mussoorie

source:http://www.garhwalpost.com/centrenewsdetail.aspx?id=10043&nt=Uttarakhand MUSSOORIE, 17 Jan: It seemed like Christmas for Mussoorie as the Chief Secretary, IK Pande, in a Santa Claus act, opened a...

Hrishitaa Bhatt added Glamour to Festival Of Cellphone Cinema

Hrishitaa Bhatt added Glamour to2nd International Festival Of Cellphone Cinema. “I am proud to be associated with this unique and innovative 2nd International Festival Of Cellphone Cinema.I have learned a lot today the new wave of creativity”,said Hrishitaa Bhatt the...

Al Qaeda decapitated 12 Mauritanian Soldiers

"Mauritania says 12 held by al Qaeda were decapitated Sat 20 Sep 2008, 17:54 GMTNOUAKCHOTT, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Twelve Mauritanian soldiers who were abducted in an attack on their patrol claimed by al Qaeda have been found killed with their heads cut off, a senior official of...

Rice arrives in Libya amid criticism back home (updated)

" Rice, Gadhafi meet in house US bombed 22 years ago. 2008-09-05 21:54:04 -   TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround in their troubled relations with a...

UNSC condemns Mauritania coup

"Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:18:08 GMT The UN Security Council has censured the army-led coup in Mauritania, demanding the country's ousted president be immediately released. In a nonbinding statement, the 15-member...

AU Suspends Mauritania

Following the military coup that took place earlier this week, the African Union has suspended Mauritania's membership. The coup was orchestrated by General Muhammad Ould Abdel Aziz, who also staged the coup that...

Mauritanian Army Stages Coup

Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was being held under house arrest in the capital Nouakchott on Wednesday, 6 August, after the presidential guard rounded up the country's civilian...

Sarkozy's Club Med Experiment Is Sure to Fail: Opinion North Africa

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on July 17 said that Europe wants Algerian and Libyan oil-and-gas reserves and accused the EU of deliberately choosing to isolate Africa through the new union. Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi denounced the project as leader of the AU...

'Public Intellectuals 2.0': Democratizing Free Speech?

OpenDemocracy has a great post today by Evgeny Morozov on the recent Citizen Media Summit (organized by our citizen-media internet neighbours Global Voices), which was held this past weekend in Budapest. The post...

Senegal: Tourism in Eastern Senegal

" Tambacounda is the largest region in Eastern Senegal. It lies across major transit hubs linking Senegal to four of their neighboring countries; The Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, Mali and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The region also has an Airport which is...

Cost of food forces World Vision to cut aid

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a sad situation where not just World Vision is having problems feeding the masses, Some Consumers at some WalMarts find the store is limiting Bags of Rice to 4...

Dakar Rally canceled due to terrorist threat

Given the renewed fever with which people are wary of Al Qaeda these days (Pakistani President Musharraf has linked the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to the organization), it's not altogether surprising that...

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