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	Panapress Official Website
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The chairman of the military council for justice and democracy (CMJD), Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, on Tuesday received a mission from the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) led by the Libyan secretary of the of the popular committee for external relations, Abderahmane Chelgham, the junta said in a press release.
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The chairman of Mauritania's ruling Military Council for Justice and Democracy (CMJD), the Prime Minister, and the members of the transitional cabinet are barred from standing in the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled in two years, says a decree adopted here Wednesday.
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's ruling members of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) and the country's premier in the transitional government should not run for the country's presidency, according to Abderahmane Chelgam, head of the Maghreb Arab Union (MAU) mission here.
	www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?code=eng032

	Mauritania
		Mauritania's new military rulers have allowed relatives to visit dozens of soldiers jailed for a coup attempt against the previous government and Islamists accused of links to al-Qaida.
		The ruling military council of Mauritania has announced a comprehensive amnesty for all political prisoners.
		Nouakchott, Mauritania, 08/30 - Entente FC of Sebkha, a club in the populous south-western suburb of the Mauritanian capital, Sunday won the 13th edition of the national football challenge cup after sneaking past SOCOGIM 2-1 in extra time at the Nouakchott office of the Olympic Centre.
	www.joogali.com /Mauritania.html

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, had seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
		Mauritania and Madagascar are the only two countries in the world not to use decimal-based currency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (1692 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, had seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
		After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (1692 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, had seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.
		The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (1692 words)

	allAfrica.com: Mauritania
		The head of Mauritania's new military junta has vowed to continue the fight against desert terrorists, saying the country will honor international commitments entered by the ousted government.
		Placing the accent on transparency and grassroots political involvement, Mauritania's new military rulers have issued a tentative electoral calendar to return the country to democracy, that is being put to the people.
		Though food distributions are improving conditions for thousands of people across Mauritania, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for greater international aid in the "uphill battle" against malnutrition, especially among children in the south and south-east.
	allafrica.com /mauritania (428 words)

	Mauritania GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		The subsequent ascendancy in 1987 of what appeared to be a reformist government, albeit military, demonstrated for the first time Mauritania's growing understanding of the limits of government as this new regime grappled with the problem of adapting the longstanding cultural values of a very poor society to the needs of a modern developing state.
		In the following years, a succession of military rulers, each promising to end the corruption, abuse of authority, and economic waste of earlier regimes, proved as unwilling and inept as their civilian predecessor at ensuring the territorial integrity of the state, achieving national unity, and fostering economic development in the face of severe environmental challenges.
		As its own economy faltered and its dependence on loans and grants deepened, Mauritania improved its ties with wealthier Middle Eastern and Maghribi states at the expense of its relations with black Africa.
	www.photius.com /countries/mauritania/government/mauritania_government_government_and_polit~9865.html (805 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, had seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
		After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (805 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Politics > Armed Forces Control Mauritania
		NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's armed forces have set up a military council to rule the country and put an end to the "totalitarian regime" of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, a statement on the state news agency said on Wednesday.
		WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 2005 4:18 PM When Mauritainia’s President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was out of the country attending Saudi King Fahd’s funeral, the military overthrew his regime and seized power.
		The statement, signed by a so-called Military Council for Justice and Democracy, said the council would rule the Islamic republic for two years.
	suicidegirls.com /news/politics/10724 (760 words)

	Mauritania News & Mauritania Views
		The overthrow of Mauritania's dictator of 20 years in a military coup should durn well make the West sit up and pay attention....Mauritania is also notorious for being the country that turns the blindest eye in the world to slavery....
		Israel condemned the military coup in Mauritania and said it would wait to see how it would affect ties with one of the only three Arab countries with whom it has diplomatic relations.
		Mauritania's capital was calm on Thursday as the country awaited announcements from a group of officers who say they have seized power to end more than two decades of "totalitarian" rule by the president.
	www.joogali.com /Mauritania.html (760 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News
		NOUAKCHOTT, 8 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Mauritania’s military government that took power in a coup four months ago promised a new democratic era for the country and so far the new leaders appear to be sticking to their word.
		NOUAKCHOTT, 7 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Mauritania, a country in the throes of political change, is about to become Africa’s newest oil producer and government officials are pledging it will not become Africa’s newest victim of oil wealth woes.
		NOUAKCHOTT, 21 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Placing the accent on transparency and grassroots political involvement, Mauritania’s new military rulers have issued a tentative electoral calendar to return the country to democracy, that is being put to the people.
	www.irinnews.org /frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=Mauritania (614 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and its claims were taken over by Morocco.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
		The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania (sometimes spelled Mauretania), is a country in northwest Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (2549 words)

	Mauritania News & Mauritania Views
		The overthrow of Mauritania's dictator of 20 years in a military coup should durn well make the West sit up and pay attention....Mauritania is also notorious for being the country that turns the blindest eye in the world to slavery....
		Mauritania's capital was calm on Thursday as the country awaited announcements from a group of officers who say they have seized power to end more than two decades of "totalitarian" rule by the president.
		Mauritania's military junta reopened the international airport Thursday, a day after toppling the west African country's U.S.-allied president and replacing him with the national police chief.
	www.joogali.com /Mauritania.html (2549 words)

	Ely Ould Mohamed Vall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was named President of Mauritania on 3 August 2005 by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy, a group of officers who had overthrown President Maaouya Ould Taya in a coup.
		1950 in Nouakchott) is the military leader of Mauritania.
		He had previously been director of the national police force, the Sûreté Nationale, since 1987, and had been regarded as an ally of President Ould Taya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ely_Ould_Mohamed_Vall (159 words)

	Ousted Mauritania president vows to return home - Boston.com
		Mauritania's ousted President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya vowed on Monday to return to his country despite being deposed by a military coup last week.
		Taya, who had ruled Mauritania since 1984, was overthrown in a bloodless coup by a group of army officers on Wednesday while he was out of the country.
		DUBAI (Reuters) - Mauritania's ousted President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya vowed on Monday to return to his country despite being deposed by a military coup last week.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/08/ousted_mauritania_president_vows_to_return_soon_tv (276 words)

	United Nations - IRIN Africa Service
		Mauritania's military government that took power in a coup four months ago promised a new democratic era for the country and so far the new leaders appear to be sticking to their word.
		Mauritania, a country in the throes of political change, is about to become Africa's newest oil producer and government officials are pledging it will not become Africa's newest victim of oil wealth woes.
		Mauritania could again be incorporated into the HIPC programme as soon as “required policy options are taken,” said Thomas Dawson, IMF’s director of external relations earlier this month.
	www.irinnews.org /Rss/Mauritania.xml (3445 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / US search for Qaeda turns to Algeria
		The US military involvement is also part of a larger US antiterrorism campaign in the vast, desolate Sahel region of North Africa-- which touches the nations of Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad -- that US intelligence officials fear could become a primary training ground for radicals exporting terrorism around the world.
		Algeria, which has been battling Islamic militants since the early 1990s, is considered in a better position to control the spread of terrorism than its neighbors, such as the Islamic republic of Mauritania, where a key Al Qaeda operative, Abu Hafs, was born.
		Concerned that Algeria and neighboring countries could become a new hotbed for Al Qaeda and its splinter groups, the United States stepped up military operations in the region after a visit by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in October, US and Algerian officials said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/03/11/us_search_for_qaeda_turns_to_algeria (976 words)

	Mauritania's 'pro-US' president overthrown csmonitor.com
		Mauritania "sits on an estimated one billion barrels of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas," according to AFX News.
		Armed forces in the northwest African nation of Mauritania have seized control of the state radio and television station, as well as main routes in the capital, Nouakchott, in what sources are calling coup d'etat.
		The coup comes at a time when "the US military is embarking on a long-term push into Africa to counter what it considers growing inroads by al Qaeda and other terrorist networks in poor, lawless and predominantly Muslim expanses of the continent," as The Washington Post reported last week.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0803/dailyUpdate.html (707 words)

	Islamic Republic of Mauritania
		Shopkeepers have torn down the obligatory portrait of the former president, and the glowing praise that had for him they are now giving to the new military leaders.
		Vall and his military council have pledged to hold elections within two years and to forbid any of its member from standing for office in that election.
		In Mauritania, newspapers may be banned for publishing material that "undermines" Islam or is perceived to threaten national security.
	www.fsmitha.com /world/mauritania.htm (355 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 8/8/2005
		One week after the military coupe in Mauritania it was disclosed on Wednesday the formation of the new government chaired by Seidi Muhammad Weld Bubaker.
		In a major step described as alleviating citizen's unrest which was inflamed by the regime of Weld al-Taye, Mauritania's military released on Sunday several leaders of the Islamic trend in the country.
		The toppled president of Mauritania, Mu'aweya Weld al-Taye, called on forces supporting him in Mauritania to interfere in order to restore matters to its constitutional order, saying he will return back to his country, according to news agencies that quoted al-Taye in an interview with Arabia TV.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Mauritania/20050808.html (263 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 3, 2005, it was reported that the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, had seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, indicating a possible coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.
		After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (263 words)

	IPRI :: Islamabad Policy Research Institute
		It appealed to member states to refrain from joining the military alliances set up within the framework of big-power conflict, and to refuse to allow any foreign military bases to be established in their territories.
		The Heads of State and Government and Representatives declare that the continued threat to the Sacred Shrines of Islam in Jerusalem is the result of the occupation of this City by the Israeli forces.
		The State applying for withdrawal shall be bound by its obligations until the end of the fiscal year during which the application of withdrawal is submitted.
	ipripak.org /factfiles/ff46.shtml (263 words)

	Mauritania
		27 Oct 1946 Mauritania overseas territory of France.
		Chairmen of the Military Committee for National Recovery (from 6 Apr 1979, Military
		28 Nov 1958 Autonomy (Islamic Republic of Mauritania).
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Mauritania.htm (263 words)

	Mauritania
		The new prime minister in Mauritania Seidi Muhammad Weld BuBaker said that members of the ruling military council and members of the government are committed...
		After 20 years of oppression under the previous regime, the people of Mauritania have welcomed the arrival of their new leader after a bloodless coup in the...
		NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The United States dropped a demand that Mauritania's ousted president should be restored, saying it was pressing the military junta in...
	www.wikiverse.org /mauritania (263 words)

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		Changing Military Doctrine :Presidents and Military Power in Fifth Republic France, 1958-2000
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	www.bookhq.com /compare/0275972860.html (137 words)

	Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
		The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa.
		After several military losses to Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania (2422 words)

	Mauritania News
		Mauritania - Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/7/2005 The chairman of the military council for the ruling Justice And Democracy Council in Mauritania Col.
		Islamist detainees relatives protest in Mauritania Mauritania, Politics, 1/13/2006 Families and relatives of Islamist detainees in the civil prison in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Wednesday organized a...
		Mauritania will produce its first oil by the end of this week and hopes to pump 300,000 barrels per day within three to four years, a senior state oil executive said.
	www.topix.net /world/mauritania (613 words)

	Arab Maghreb Union Country Analysis Brief
		With recent offshore oil discoveries, Mauritania is poised to become an oil producer in the first quarter of 2006.
		Mauritania's macroeconomic reforms have been accompanied by efforts to liberalize the country's economy.
		While Mauritania's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew an estimated 4.0% in 2004 and is projected to grow by 4.4% in 2005, the country remains the poorest country in the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU).
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/maghreb.html (5380 words)

	Mauritania on the Internet
		Information about Mauritania and ethnic tensions, land ownership, etc. Has his publications on Goree (Senegal), indigenous learning, an interview with the leader of the Ghana Dance Ensemble, Nii Yartey, military rule in Mauritania and a comparison with Sudan.
		Has section on Mauritania's economy, a directory of the press, radio, education, a directory of associations, NGOs, and international bodies in Mauritania.
		Says it is "The site represents a new style media in Mauritania since it is considered to be the first electronic journal produced and overseen by a professional team of journalists in Mauritania." Web site based in Lima, Ohio.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/mauritan.html (1969 words)

	Technorati Tag: mauritania
		In the wake of this month’s military coup, Mauritania has established its first ministry for education and scientific research.
		Mauritania Oil- and gas-rich Mauritania's foreign minister Ahmad Walid Sayd Ahmad on Friday signaled his country's foreign policy - especially its...
		I found this interesting- According to CNN, the use of GPS will be limited in the 2006 Dakar rally, to go back to more traditional navigation...
	www.technorati.com /tag/mauritania (452 words)

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