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	CHARLES BRAY's Mauritani Journal
		Haidallah was president of Mauritania from 1980 to 1984, when he was overthrown by Mr.
		Mauritania is a highly centralized Islamic republic dominated by a strong presidency.
		The president faced a serious challenge to his rule in June 2003 when an attempted coup was put down after heavy fighting between loyal troops and rebel soldiers.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Mauritania (962 words)

	Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in the town of Atar (Adrar Region), Ould Taya attended a Franco-Arabic Primary School from 1949 to 1955.
		Mauritania's government under Ould Taya continued racist campaigns against southerners he described as fl Africans (as opposed to Arab Moors).
		Mauritania's official website for the President, as of 11:22 AM CST, 4 August 2005, no president or any information is shown, after a period in which the page still showed Ould Taya as the President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maaouya_Ould_Sid'Ahmed_Taya (532 words)

	Mauritania: Institutional Situation
		The members of the Council are appointed by the President of the Republic (3 members, including the President of the Council), the Speaker of the National Assembly (2 members) and the President of the Senate (1 member).
		On the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of national independence, President Ould Taya announced that the organic laws relating to the elections of members of the Assembly and the Senate were to be revised to introduce an element of proportional representation.
		The administrative organisation of Mauritania subdivides the territory into twelve regions and one district, but the breakdown of competence between the various levels of the administration is not clear.
	www.etat.sciencespobordeaux.fr /_anglais/institutionnel/mauritania.html (2199 words)

	Agence France Presse English: Mauritania's first president Moktar Ould Daddah dies@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mauritania's independence leader Moktar Ould Daddah has died after a long illness.
		Mauritania's independence leader Moktar Ould Daddah has died at age 79 following a long illness, his family said.
		Considered the "father of the nation," Ould Daddah became independent Mauritania's first president in 1961 and was re-elected three times, ruling 17 years before...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:85752996&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (171 words)

	Mauritania: History
		The importance of Mauritania, and the need for pacification, was only indirect — as a link between French interests in Morocco (north) and Senegal (south).
		But Mauritania is not allowed into the United Nations, as the establishment was against the interests of Morocco, which was close to Soviet Union at that time.
		Most important is the development of the iron mines of Fderik, the completion of the railway from the iron plants to the coast near Nouadhibou, and the building of the new capital at Nouakchott.
	i-cias.com /e.o/mauritania_5.htm (2022 words)

	Map & Graph: Countries by Government: Executive branch: Elections
		French president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; high administrator appointed by the French president on the advice of the French Ministry of the Interior; the presidents of the Territorial Government and the Territorial Assembly are elected by the members of the assembly
		French president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; high commissioner appointed by the French president on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; president of the Territorial Government and the president of the Territorial Assembly are elected by the members of the assembly
		president elected by an electoral college, which consists of the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, for a five-year term; election last held 14 February 2003 (next to be held NA 2008); the president usually appoints as prime minister the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives
	www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/gov_exe_bra_ele (6677 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The president went on state Television, the first time he had addressed the nation since the putsch was launched early Sunday, around 3:00 pm (1500 GMT) to say the bid by "officers of the national army" had been quashed.
		Mauritania is due to hold elections in November, and Ould Taya, who has ruled since coming to power in a coup in 1984, will run for a third term.
		Mauritania also established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999, bringing stern criticism from some Arab states and opponents to the move within the desert country.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2003-06/09/article12.shtml (537 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Mauritania cops arrest president's rival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Presidential power in Mauritania -- an Islamic republic that straddles the Arab and African worlds on the southern edge of the Sahara -- has never changed hands at the ballot box since the country won independence from France in 1960.
		Mauritania has changed foreign allegiances dramatically since the early 1990s -- backing Saddam Hussein in the 1990-91 Gulf War, only to crack down on rallies and alleged recruiting on behalf of Saddam this year during the latest U.S.-led attack on Iraq.
		Haidalla and Ahmed Ould Daddah, a brother of Mauritania's post-independence leader, Mokhtar Ould Daddah, are believed to be the main threats to Taya's re-election.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2003/11/06/mauritania_cops_arrest_presidents_rival (928 words)

	Search Results for "Mauritania"
		500,000), capital of Mauritania and its Nouakchott dist., W Mauritania, a port on the Atlantic Ocean.
		It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Mauritania in the north, by Mali in the east, and by Guinea and Guinea-Bissau...
		...Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Morocco in the north, on Algeria in the northeast, and on Mauritania in the east and south.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Mauritania (278 words)

	Military junta overthrows absent president in Mauritania - The Boston Globe
		The junta pledged to yield to democratic rule within two years, but African leaders and the United States were quick to condemn the coup, declaring that the days of authoritarianism and military rule must end across the continent.
		President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, who himself seized power in a 1984 coup and dealt ruthlessly with his opponents, was out of the country when presidential guardsmen cut broadcasts from the national radio and television stations at dawn and seized a building housing the army chief of staff headquarters.
		Oil recently was discovered in reserves offshore, and Mauritania is expected to begin pumping crude for the first time early next year, but industry analysts said the coup was unlikely to significantly affect global oil prices.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/08/04/military_junta_overthrows_absent_president_in_mauritania (627 words)

	Embassy of Mauritania - Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mauritania is a country in Western Africa that stretches along the Atlantic coast into the Sahara desert.
		The rise of the Arabicized Berber dynasties of the Almoravids and the Almohads led to invasions and eventual colonization of Spain and clashes with the Ghana empire in the south.
		Mauritania gained its independence in 1960, and Moktar Ould Daddah was elected the country's first president in 1961.
	www.ambarim-dc.org /history.htm (408 words)

	Ousted Mauritania president vows to return home - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/08/ousted_mauritania_president_vows_to_return_soon_tv (276 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Officials: Plot aimed to kill Mauritania's president on way out of country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A foiled bombing and assassination plot had aimed to kill the president of this Arab-dominated West African nation as he left this weekend for France, ruling party officials in Mauritania said Tuesday.
		President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya's government confirmed reports of Monday's alleged coup attempt for the first time, calling it an "attempted coup d'etat" in a brief dispatch on state media.
		Mauritania is overwhelmingly Islamic, straddling Arab and African worlds on the edge of the Sahara.
	images.uniontrib.com /news/world/20040810-1434-mauritania-assassinationplot.html (573 words)

	Mauritania: Serious attack on freedoms of expression and association
		Yet, Mauritania's attachment to the UDHR is prominently stated in the country's constitution and all UN member states have pledged themselves to the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
		In the February 1998 court hearings, the President of the court stated the problem had been solved once and for all and that it was legally forbidden to speak of slavery as if it was a current practice.
		Mauritania: Wave of arrests of political opponents and imams.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/mauritania/document.do?id=04137830B837AB168025690000692C48 (1636 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| 'Army coup foiled' in Mauritania
		Mauritania has foiled a plot to overthrow the country's president, its defence minister has said.
		President Taya took power in a bloodless coup in December 1984.
		Mauritania became only the third Arab League state to establish full diplomatic relationships with Israel in 1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/3553906.stm (239 words)

	JasonColeman.com: Conflicting thoughts. . .
		As I mentioned before, the President of Mauritania has been deposed in a bloodless coup (as far as coups go, that's pretty good).
		President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya has been characterized as a tyrant, and there are certainly some issues to look at in his 20 years of elected rule, but the fact remains that this is a military group that has seized power against that nation's constitution and trashing a constitution is never really a good thing.
		The President remains in Niger, the African Union has condemned the coup, they're talking about it at the U.N. and the U.S. State Department says that they are monitoring the situation closely and do not approve of extra-constitutional seizures of power.
	www.jasoncoleman.com /BlogArchives/2005/08/conflicting_tho.html (394 words)

	Mauritania: President ousted by military coup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa.
		President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.
		Due to economic weakness, Mauritania has been a neglibile player in the territorial dispute, with its official position being that it wishes for an expedient solution that is mutually agreeable to all parties.
	www.babnet.net /en_detail.asp?id=1420 (804 words)

	Failed coup attempt in Mauritania
		Mauritania’s main exports are iron ore and fish, though the discovery of oil offshore two years ago has brought interest from the West.
		Mauritania is one of only three Arab states to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, which are widely opposed by Mauritania’s large Muslim population.
		President Taya has been under increasing pressure since the US-led war against Iraq began and has stirred popular anger with a crackdown against political and religious opposition including the Islamist groups Al-Salafeyah and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as against politicians with former links to Saddam Hussein.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/maur-j17.shtml (1126 words)

	Ely Ould Mohamed Vall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1950 in Nouakchott) is the military leader of Mauritania.
		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.
		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)

	Mauritania: Cease Harassment of Opposition (Human Rights Watch, 22-6-2001)
		Despite government claims that Mauritania is a democracy, opposition candidates continue to be subjected to arbitrary harassment by the authorities.
		The trial of this opposition leader highlights ongoing harassment of figures perceived to be in opposition to the government in Mauritania.
		In 1998 leading figures of the two organizations were convicted and sentenced to thirteen months in prison, under a 1973 law which criminalizes administration of or membership in "unauthorized organizations," although those convicted were released from prison after several weeks.
	www.hrw.org /press/2001/06/mauri-0622-ltr.htm (776 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Mauritania president seeks re-election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Nineteen years after seizing power in this Arab-dominated desert nation, President Maaouya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya is fighting hard for another six-year term in an election Friday that already has been marred by accusations the ruling party is trying to skew the vote.
		Under Taya, Mauritania's foreign policy has evolved from support for Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War to cracking down on rallies and alleged recruiting on behalf of Saddam this year during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
		Mauritania today is allied with the United States and is one of only three Arab League nations to have extended diplomatic recognition to Israel -- a hot-button campaign issue alongside jobs and increased personal freedoms.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2003/11/07/mauritania_president_seeks_re_election (850 words)

	Worldandnation: Mauritania president is ousted by junta
		NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - A military junta overthrew Mauritania's U.S.-allied president while he was abroad Wednesday, prompting celebrations in this oil-rich Islamic nation that looked increasingly to the West amid alleged threats from al-Qaida-linked militants.
		The junta promised to yield to democratic rule within two years, but African leaders and the United States were quick to condemn the coup, declaring that the days of authoritarianism and military rule must end across the continent.
		President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, who seized power in a 1984 coup and dealt ruthlessly with his opponents, was out of the country when presidential guardsmen cut broadcasts from the national radio and television stations at dawn and seized a building housing the army chief of staff headquarters.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/08/04/Worldandnation/Mauritania_president_.shtml (566 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Mauritania police arrest president's main challenger ahead of elections
		Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, a former dictator who was ousted by the current president 19 years ago, was taken into custody at his home in the capital, said a member of his party.
		Haidalla is the leading of five candidates running against the president in Mauritania, which has never had a democratic change of power since its 1960 independence from France.
		Ahmed Ould Daddah, a brother of Mauritania's post-independence leader, Mokhtar Ould Daddah, is another leading candidate.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031106-1000-mauritania-presidency.html (649 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Army officers in Mauritania overthrow president in an apparently bloodless coup
		NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — A military junta overthrew Mauritania's U.S.-allied president on Wednesday, saying it would temporarily rule this oil-rich Islamic nation that had looked increasingly to the West as the government raised fears of a growing threat from al-Qaida linked militants.
		President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya, who himself seized power in a coup two decades ago, was out of the country when presidential guard troops took control of the national radio and television stations earlier Wednesday, cutting broadcasts and seizing a building housing the army chief of staff headquarters.
		Taya held talks at the airport with Niger President Mamadou Tandja before traveling to a villa in Niger's capital of Niamey, where officials said he might stay for several days.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600153203,00.html (809 words)

	Middle East Online
		The trial of the former president and the other 14 defendants resumed Thursday despite the absence of key prosecution witnesses.
		Mauritania's current President Maaouiya Ould Taya was re-elected last month.
		Ould Haidallah, a former army colonel who finished a distant second to Ould Taya in last month's election, was arrested two days after the polls and accused of using the campaign to mask a coup plot.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=8234 (253 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Mauritania police arrest president's main challenger on eve of elections, ...
		Presidential power in Mauritania – an Islamic republic that straddles the Arab and African worlds on the southern edge of the Sahara – has never changed hands at the ballot box since the country won independence from France in 1960.
		Mauritania has changed foreign allegiances dramatically since the early 1990s – backing Saddam Hussein in the 1990-91 Gulf War, only to crack down on rallies and alleged recruiting on behalf of Saddam this year during the latest U.S.-led attack on Iraq.
		Taya has also made Mauritania one of only three in the Arab League to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel – a hot-button campaign issue alongside jobs and increased personal freedoms.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031106-1433-mauritania-presidency.html (929 words)

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