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 | | "I've already paid my 200,000 Mauritanian Ouguiya [US $775] to a Mauritanian smuggler," said a young Guinean working in a restaurant in the capital, Nouakchott, who said his name was Aziz. |
 | | The bodies regularly wash up along the long, empty shore of Mauritania, an Islamic republic with less then 3.2 million people living in an area of more than one million sq km, most of which is desert. |
 | | With the help of Spain, Mauritanian security forces have stopped canoes on the high seas or as they were leaving Mauritania's northern fishing port of Nouadhibou, according to a senior immigration official who requested anonymity. |
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