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	Nouakchott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nouakchott (Arabic: نواكشوط or انواكشوط; population estimate 1999: 881,000) is the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania.
		Nouakchott is the Sahara's largest city if one excludes marginal cases like Cairo (in the Nile River Delta) and the cities north of the Atlas Mountains on Africa's northern coast.
		Nouakchott is built around a large tree-lined street, Avenue Abd an-Nasir, which runs northeast through the city center from the airport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nouakchott (475 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nouakchott (Mauritania Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		500,000), capital of Mauritania and its Nouakchott dist., W Mauritania, a port on the Atlantic Ocean.
		Nouakchott was a small village until 1957, when it was chosen as the capital of Mauritania.
		Nouakchott is located on a major highway and has an international airport.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nouakcho.html (223 words)

	OTAL - Mauritania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott, or place of winds, is the capital city of Mauritania and one of the newest capitals in the world.
		Nouakchott was a major refugee center during the Saharan droughts of the 1970s, and its rapid growth during that period (together with a sharp decline in the number of Mauritania's nomads) was attributed to migration and urbanisation in response to the droughts.
		Nouakchott is located on a major highway with a 1,100 kms bitumen road (also known as the 'Road of Hope') connecting Nouakchott with Nema for goods in destined for Nioro or Nara in the Malian Sahel.
	www.otal.com /mauritania (1170 words)

	Nouakchott on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott was a small village until 1957, when it was chosen as the capital of Mauritania, in part because of the aquifer there.
		Localisation de Nouakchott en Mauritanie Les combats ont repris lundi matin à Nouakchott après une nuit calme et malgré l'.
		Des femmes mauritaniennes attendent de voter, à Nouakchott Le chef de l'Etat sortant, qui a lui aussi voté en début de mat.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nouakcho.asp (718 words)

	Nouakchott - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott (1999 population estimate: 881,000) is the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania.
		Nouakchott is built around a large tree-lined street, Avenue Abd-el-Nasser, which runs northeast through the city center from the airport.
		Nouakchott, capitale de la Mauritanie (Publications du Département de géographie de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /nouakchott.htm (600 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Nouakchott
		NOUAKCHOTT - AU delegation arrives in Nouakchott as pressure on junta eases Mauritania's new military rulers, who seized power in a bloodless coup last week, met with a delegation from the African Union in the capital Nouakchott on Tuesday amid signs that the international community's frosty reaction was thawing...
		NOUAKCHOTT, 9 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - AU delegation arrives in Nouakchott as pressure on junta eases Mauritanias new military rulers, who seized power in a bloodless coup last week, met with a delegation from the African Union in the capital Nouakchott on Tuesday amid signs that the international communitys frosty reaction was thawing...
		Nouakchott A group of Mauritanian army officers announced the overthrow of the President on Wednesday, hours after troops took control of the national media and the army chief of staff headquarters in the capital of this oil-rich Islamic nation...
	worldcities.surfwax.com /files/Nouakchott_Mauritania.html (5266 words)

	Nouakchott - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott - Mauritania on Sunday blew up what it said was its last remaining stock of anti-personnel mines, destroying 5 000 of the mines in desert north of...
		NOUAKCHOTT : Mauritanian authorities nabbed one of the suspected masterminds behind at least two of the three attempts to oust President Maaouiya Ould Taya in...
		The government of Nouakchott announced the detention of the former officer Saleh Weld Hanineh who is considered the mastermind of the two coupe attempts...
	news.daylightonline.com /2003/Nouakchott.html (2347 words)

	afrol News: Safe water to still Mauritanian thirst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Nouakchott police chief - his department is involved in the local distribution of water - was also present at the signing of the document.
		Nouakchott is localised in a semi-desert area and cannot provide its rapidly growing population with clean water from local reservoirs.
		Nouakchott and the outlying town of Birmougrein at occasions also receive their drinking water from abroad.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/mau011_safe_water.htm (430 words)

	Adventures of Mauritania: Nouakchott
		Nouakchott is one of the Arabic cities having most of "Western" problems.
		Nouakchott deserves to have its sunny side exposed as well, and the Tavragh Zayna and Las Palmas areas, less than half a kilometre northwest of the town centre, indicate what the good life in Mauritania can be like.
		Nouakchott is extremely expensive, the price level is as high as in Paris or Geneva.
	lexicorient.com /mauritania/nouakch.htm (536 words)

	afrol News: Nouakchott harbour new outlet for Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott further is the regional harbour closest to Europe; Mali's major trade partner, making also sea traffic shorter and cheaper.
		The Nouakchott harbour, which mostly was built by China in the 1980s, has been growing of size and importance over the last decades.
		During the 1990s, the relationship between Nouakchott and Bamako however gradually became friendlier, reaching the current stage of close cooperation and a regional development union together with Senegal.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/mau021_mal_port.htm (444 words)

	Nouakchott
		Nouakchott is situated slightly inland in southern Mauritania, in a flat landscape.
		The region of Nouakchott corresponds with the city borders, and covers an area of 1,000 km².
		The centre of Nouakchott is small and low-scale, while all settlements making up Nouakchott are widespread, with small houses of one storey.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nouakcht.htm (129 words)

	Panapress Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian authorities have refused to recognise the Party for Democratic Convergence (PCD) or Hamd in the Arabic language.
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Ten out of the 30 mini-buses hired to ferry clandestine sub-Saharan African immigrants expelled from Morocco are expected to arrive in the northern Mauritanian commercial capital of Nouadhibou on Wednesday.
		Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The families of 17 "Salafists" still detained at the Nouakchott civil prison on Saturday appealed to the ruling Military Council for Peace and Justice to release their relatives during the holy month of Ramadan.
	www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?code=eng032 (633 words)

	Tear gas in Nouakchott as opposition takes to the streets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NOUAKCHOTT, 5 Nov 2003 (IRIN) - Police used teargas to break up an opposition demonstration in the capital, Nouakchott, on Wednesday as opposition leaders reacted angrily to accusations of involvement in a coup plot.
		Following a seven-hour search of Haidallah's Nouakchott residence on Monday, two of the former president's sons were arrested at different times on Tuesday.
		This was a reference to Laurent Gbagbo's coming to power in Cote d'Ivoire in October 2000, when mass demonstrations staged on his behalf after a disputed election led to the departure of then President Robert Guei.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37675 (652 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nouakchott
		The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface.
		Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them.
		Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nouakchott (1176 words)

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		NOUAKCHOTT, 3 Dec 2004 (IRIN/PLUSNEWS) - Mauritania opened its first HIV/AIDs testing and treatment centre this week in the hope of improving early detection of the disease in this staunchly Islamic desert state where public discussion of AIDS has long been restrained by social taboos.
		The opening of the new outpatient treatment centre in Nouakchott was "a dream I can barely believe," he said.
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44513&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=MAURITANIA (1165 words)

	MAURITANIA online TRAVEL GUIDE : Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, Chinguetti, Atar, Iron ore Train to Choum, safari, African ...
		The money for the new road between the Moroccan border and Nouakchott seems to be collected and there are hopes that by 2006 North-Africa will finally be connected by asphalt with Black Africa.
		In Nouakchott and Nouadhibou it was very windy and around 25 degrees when we were there in June.
		Nouakchott to the border of Rosso with Senegal
	www.hansrossel.com /africa/mauritania.html (3781 words)

	A Strategy for the Privatization of the Nouakchott Port
		One of the port’s main functions is to act as an interface between ocean and inland transports and to provide complementary services to such loading and dispatch operations as storage, processing and distribution.
		The objective of this negotiation is to reduce redundant labor and to free the Nouakchott Port from social and noncommercial obligations.
		Furthermore, a landlocked country, Mali, is closer to Nouakchott Port than the Port of Abidjan or the Port of Dakar.
	www.commercialdiplomacy.org /ma_projects/mouknass3.htm (2729 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nouakchott
		It is Mauritania's administrative and economic centre and is...
		Most of the region's cities are concentrated on the coastal belt.
		These include the five capitals: Nouakchott (Mauritania), Rabat (Morocco), Algiers...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Nouakchott.html (91 words)

	Lawyers boycott Mauritania trial - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nouakchott, Mauritania, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Lawyers defending more than 100 Mauritanians, mostly soldiers accused of two coup attempts, said Sunday they will boycott the trial in protest.
		The defense team said they were protesting the fact that two military officers are among the judges and because the court was set up in a remote military base, 35 miles (60 kilometers) east of the capital, Nouakchott.
		The lawyers, in a statement, complain the court's makeup and venue could not provide a fair trial "where all live in fear and terror," adding they pulled out of the opening session Sunday, putting a halt to the session.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20041121-075001-5097r.htm (219 words)

	afrol News - "Coup plotter" and family arrested in Mauritania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mr Hanena was pointed out as a coup plotter by the Nouakchott government already last year and has been sought after by Mauritanian police and troops for more than one year.
		The arrest of the wife of Mr Hanena is believed to have come after her appeal to members of the press for a fair trial for her husband.
		The arrest of these three opposition leaders has caused protests in the streets of Nouakchott and representatives of the legal opposition have demanded their release.
	www.afrol.com /articles/14527 (559 words)

	Palin's Travels: Nouakchott, Mauritania, Sahara, Day 29
		Mauritania was a tough one, but Nouakchott was a match winner.
		Which is why I experienced more than the usual frisson of first-timer's excitement when I saw the name on the airport building, and why I immediately bought up all three postcards in the hotel shop.
		Nouakchott, whose name, my guidebook tells me helpfully, may mean 'Place of Wind' or 'Place of Floating Seashells', was only created in the late 1950s, and even by 1980 had less than 150,000 inhabitants.
	www.palinstravels.co.uk /book-1932 (390 words)

	A Strategy for the Privatization of the Nouakchott Port
		Reasons for this mass privatization are to reduce the public budget deficit, to create wealth, to insulate port activities from the political process, and to introduce competition.The privatization will define a new role for the port authorities, increase foreign direct investment, and introduce labor reform.
		The port of Nouakchott consists of two quays, one for small vessels (Whart Quay) with draft of less than 5 m and the second for larger vessels with a max draft of 10.5 m.
		In this section, I will describe the functioning of ports, their roles and responsibilities, various models of port privatization, the benefits and objectives of each model, and the advantages and disadvantages of privatization.
	www.commercialdiplomacy.org /ma_projects/mouknass.htm (3471 words)

	NOUAKCHOTT [VIII:86b] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Communications within the town are not always easy since metalled roads are still sparse, and vehicles often get stuck in the sands once they leave the main roads.
		Connections with outside countries, and even with the interior of the country, are now more and more by air travel, thanks to the modern airport of Nouakchott and the improvised landing-strips which many places of middling importance possess.
		There remains an interesting question: the origin of the name Nouakchott, which even the Mauritanian government, which uses the French language, customarily spells thus.
	www.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/S8/SIM-5958.html (442 words)

	Nouakchott
		For your move and custom regulations it is better to get organized with a carrier who has a local correspondent because custom formalities are long and complicated.
		The price of a taxi from the airport to the centre is 1,000 UM (ouguiyas) per person plus 1,000 Um for the luggage.
		There is a French school in Nouakchott, from kindergarten to high school.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /giorgfer/nouakchott.htm (926 words)

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	Nouakchott : Mauritanian Army says coup d'etat successful :: moroccoTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mauritanian Army officers have announced in a communiqué, of which Morocco Times received a copy, that they have seized power in Nouakchott.
		Earlier this morning press reports said that troops in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, took control of the national radio and television station and blocked off streets on Wednesday, reported Reuters.
		Dissident soldiers came close to toppling Taya in June 2003 during two days of street fighting in Nouakchott before loyalist forces regained control.
	www.moroccotimes.com /paper/article.asp?idr=6&id=8614 (544 words)

	PolitInfo.com - Anti-Slavery Groups Denounce Ongoing Practice of Human Bondage in Mauritania - Sep 9, 2004 Nouakchott / ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today she lives in a one-room shack in Nouakchott, without electricity or running water.
		It was only after she ran away, and eventually ended up in Nouakchott, that she learned that slavery was illegal.
		But for the moment, she said, her biggest priorities were finding a job and sending her children to school.
	www.politinfo.com /articles/article_2004_09_9_4326.html (675 words)

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