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 List of state leaders in 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Mauritania - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The president is head of state and appoints a prime minister as head of government.
Mauritania was the name of the Roman province of northwest Africa, after the Mauri, a Berber people who inhabited it.
The conflict weakened Mauritania's economy, and in 1978 President Daddah was deposed in a bloodless coup led by Col Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mauritania   (754 words)

  
 Mauritania says to remain U.S. ally after coup - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania's new prime minister said he wanted democratic elections as soon as possible after last week's coup and vowed the Islamic Republic would remain a U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's new prime minister said he wanted democratic elections as soon as possible after last week's coup and vowed the Islamic Republic would remain a U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism.
Washington sees Mauritania as a key ally in West Africa and this year sent military experts to train its troops to tackle Islamic militants it fears may be operating in the Sahara desert.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/08/12/mauritania_says_to_remain_us_ally_after_coup   (695 words)

  
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He was minister of education in the government of Francesco Crispi in 1888, held the portfolios of agriculture and finance in the government of 1893-96, reorganized the Bank of Italy as minister of the treasury under Premier Luigi Pelloux in 1899-1900, and was a minister in the government of Sidney Sonnino in 1906.
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 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR (Friday, November 28, 2003)
Afterwards, the Prime Minister and party went to the Falam General Hospital, where they were welcomed by the medical superintendent of the hospital, specialists, doctors and nurses.
Next, the Prime Minister presented a computer set, television, video cassette player and an inverter for the basic education high school of the town to the headmaster, and clothes for local people to the chairman of the Township Peace and Development Council.
Minister Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung unveiled the signboard of the branch.
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 Mauritania junta names new prime minister - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania's self-declared head of state on Sunday named a new prime minister to replace the former premier who resigned along with his Cabinet after last week's coup.
The coup was welcomed by many in Mauritania who had grown weary of Taya's harsh rule since taking power in a coup himself in 1984.
Mauritania is expected to begin producing crude for the first time in early 2006.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/08/07/mauritanian_government_resigns_after_coup   (598 words)

  
 The New York Times: Search > Topic: MAURITANIA
Mauritania's month-old military junta on Friday freed political prisoners jailed by the government it overthrew, touching off joyful street demonstrations across the nation.
Mauritania's self-declared head of state appointed a new prime minister on Sunday to replace the former premier, who resigned along with his cabinet after a coup last week.
The defense minister said in a recorded message on state radio that the government had foiled a coup attempt this week and that the plotters were a group of renegade soldiers who had already tried to topple President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya last year....
query.nytimes.com /search/query?ppds=geo&v1=MAURITANIA&sort=newest   (574 words)

  
 PolitInfo.com - Tensions Ease in Mauritania After Coup Leaders Name Prime Minister - Aug 8, 2005 Abidjan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritanians appear hopeful for their future, after the leader of last week's coup named a new prime minister who is seen as having broad support and respect, and who has previously served as head of government.
Mauritania's capital is relatively calm a day after a bloodless military coup that ousted president President Maaouiya Ould Taya.
Mauritania's military overthrew President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's government and announced on the state-run news agency it would rule the country for up to two years.
www.politinfo.com /articles/article_2005_08_08_2003.html   (776 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Mauritanian government resigns after coup
NOUAKCHOTT, MauritaniaMauritania's prime minister and his Cabinet resigned Sunday, clearing the way for the desert nation's new military strongman to name a government after last week's coup to oust the president, a U.S. ally in the war on terrorism.
Prime Minister Sghair Ould M'Bareck presented the resignations to coup leader Ely Ould Mohamed Vall at the presidential palace.
Cabinet ministers had not shown up for work since Wednesday's coup toppled longtime President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, who is in exile in the nearby West African nation of Niger.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050807-0837-mauritania.html   (472 words)

  
 Mauritania: Government should do more than host human rights conference
Even the formal opening of the Commission´s session by the Prime Minister of Mauritania yesterday was marred by the heavy presence of soldiers who were trying to prevent local human rights organizations from participating in the public opening session.
Amnesty International considers that this practice amounts to a form of administrative detention and believes that the absence of all judicial process in these cases is a strong indication that they are probably prisoners of conscience who have been arbitrarily detained to prevent them from conducting their non-violent political activities.
Mauritania: Wave of arrests of political opponents and imams.
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/mauritania/document.do?id=A8A1694836DB61A7802569000068A2C4   (769 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Mauritania names new prime minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania's self-declared head of state has named a man to replace the former prime minister who resigned along with his cabinet following last week's coup.
Cabinet ministers had not shown up for work since Wednesday's coup toppled longtime President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, who is currently in exile in nearby Niger.
Boubacar had served as prime minister from 1992 to 1996 and also headed Taya's former ruling party until being posted to Paris as ambassador.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/0CB6AAEB-B1EF-43BE-83D7-E81327F55BA9.htm   (568 words)

  
 Sghair Ould M'Bareck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sghair Ould M'Bareck (Arabic: اسغير ولد امبارك; born 1954) was the Prime Minister of Mauritania from July 6, 2003, when he was appointed by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya following an attempted coup, until August 7, 2005, when he resigned following another coup.
President Ould Taya was deposed in a military coup on August 3, 2005.
Although the coup leaders requested on the following day that Ould M'Bareck and other government ministers remain in their posts, on August 7 he and his government resigned and the coup leaders named a new prime minister, Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, who had previously served from 1992 to 1996.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sghair_Ould_M'Bareck   (172 words)

  
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 Cameroon - Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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 October 2003
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Mauritania: Former prime minister (1957-61) and president (1961-78) Moktar Ould Daddah dies.
On October 23 Prime Minister Fatos Nano's nominees for foreign minister, Namik Dokle, and for interior minister, Fatmir Xhafa, are rejected by parliament.
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 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Spain's prime minister, a Bush ally, to step aside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
MADRID, Spain — Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, one of President Bush's strongest allies, has decided to step aside as head of the ruling Popular Party and will not run for a third term in elections next March, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.
Israel has full diplomatic relations with three Arab countries; Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania, but Mauritania is the only one of the three who has kept its ambassador in Israel during the three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
The turmoil erupted when President Chandrika Kumaratunga fired three powerful Cabinet ministers, ordered Parliament suspended for two weeks and briefly declared a state of emergency — all while Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesing was out of the country.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001786803_wdig09.html   (612 words)

  
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Mbarek, a 56-year old lawyer who served before as health and social affairs minister, education minister, rural development and environment minister, was named in a decree signed by Taya in the capital, Nouakchott.
First was to the issue of Mauritania's legacy of slavery which was abolished in the Islamic West African state in 1980, ending the use of members of the Harratin community or "fl" Moors as slaves and servants.
In 1999, Mauritania became only the third member of the Arab League to establish full diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, a move that proved widely unpopular at home.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=35241   (660 words)

  
 BBC News | Africa | Apology over nuclear claims waste
An international Arabic newspaper has made a public apology to the prime minister of Mauritania over claims that he agreed to let Israel bury its nuclear waste in Mauritania.
The prime minister, El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna, brought libel proceedings against the newspaper, Al Quds Al Arabi, in the High Court in London where it is published.
Mauritania was criticised by the Arab League last month, when it established diplomatic relations with Israel.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/506466.stm   (123 words)

  
 Mauritania Coup : New Prime Minister named :: moroccoTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania's new head of state has named a man to replace the former Prime Minister who resigned along with his cabinet following last week's coup.
Sidy Mohamed Ould Boubacar, was appointed Prime Minister Sunday by the Mauritania's new military regime.
They also argued that the ex- leader turned Mauritania into one of the most repressive nations towards Islamist movements in the region, especially after narrowly surviving an attempted coup in 2003.
www.moroccotimes.com /paper/article.asp?idr=6&id=8698   (774 words)

  
 Mauritania News - Breaking World Mauritania News - The New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania' s month-old military junta on Friday freed political prisoners jailed by the government it overthrew.
Mauritania' s self-declared head of state appointed a new prime minister to replace the former premier, who resigned along with his cabinet after a coup last week.
Mauritania's pro-Western leader battled a coup attempt on Sunday, as small arms and tank fire erupted near the presidential palace.
topics.nytimes.com /top/news/international/countriesandterritories/mauritania?inline=nyt-geo   (373 words)

  
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 Prime Minister resigns: Middle East International, 8 May, 1998
AFTER absenting himself from official duties for almost a month, Yemen’s prime minister, Dr Faraj bin Ghanim, has finally resigned.
At the time of his appointment last May, Dr Ghanim demanded that all ministers should face a "performance review" after 12 months, and the president agreed.
In the event, the prime minister wanted to sack three or four ministers early but the president insisted that any changes must wait until the agreed date (May 17).
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Mauritanian prime minister hands in resignation to coup leaders Mauritanian Prime Minister Sghair Ould M'Bareck, who had remained in post after a military coup in the northwest African state, handed in his resignation and that of his government, sources close to the presidency said.
Mauritania bridges between the Arab-Berber Moors of North Africa and the fl Africans of the sub-Sahara.
Abdullah Daoud, 41, was sent to Mauritania because it was the only Arabic-speaking country willing to take him in, his wife, Kifah, said from her home in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=MAURITANIA   (4403 words)

  
 afrol News - Mauritania gets new Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The last one of these replacements is the proper Prime Minister of Mauritania, El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna, who was replaced by presidential decree with until-now Minister of Justice, Sghaier Ould Mbarek.
According to several analysts and observers, the reasons behind President Ould Taya's removal of Mr Khouma are most likely to be of a political character and not to be understood as a suspicion regarding Mr Khouma's possible part-taking in the coup attempt.
The naming of Mr Ould Mbarek as new Prime Minister is also seen as a significant step forward for large social and racial class of Mauritanian ex-slaves, the so-called "Harratin".
www.afrol.com /printable_article/10408   (445 words)

  
 New prime minister appointed in Mauritania
In the last step to this effect, the council appointed a new prime minister for the Mauritanian government.
News reports said that Sayed Muhammad Weld Bu Baker was appointed as a prime minister for an interim government in succession of the former prime minister Asghir Weld Imbarak who submitted his resignation on Sunday.
Military council in Mauritania was close to the toppled president
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/050808/2005080821.html   (153 words)

  
 Mauritania's Prime Minister Hands in Resignation to Coup Leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mauritania's Prime Minister Hands in Resignation to Coup Leaders
Mauritania's new ruling military council has freed about 20 Islamist activists who had been jailed by the ousted president.
Meanwhile, coup leader Ely Ould Mohamed Vall has appointed a new prime minister to replace Sghair Ould M'Bareck, who resigned Sunday.
quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/gg/2005-08-07-voa18.html   (156 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Election Watch
Mauritania's multiparty civilian government was approved by referendum as part of the present constitution on July 20, 1991.
In this election, Maaouya Ould Sid' Ahmed TAYA received 62.82% of the vote and thus defeated Ahmed Ould DADDAH, his closest competitor with 32.93% of the vote.
This election was the second multiparty election held in Mauritania.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/mauritania.html   (121 words)

  
 Map & Graph: Countries by Government: Executive branch: Head of government
For example, in the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the head of government.
Prime Minister (referred to in Italy as the president of the Council of Ministers) Silvio BERLUSCONI (since 10 June 2001)
Prime Minister ABDALLAH bin Khalifa Al Thani, brother of the monarch (since 30 October 1996); Deputy Prime Minister MUHAMMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani, brother of the monarch (since 20 January 1998)
www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/gov_exe_bra_hea_of_gov   (4646 words)

  
 William F. Buckley Jr. on Richard Reeves & Nixon on National Review Online
Nixon was proud of his capacity to memorize, but the exercise of that skill tripped him up now and again.
The State Department's brief, duly committed to memory, was on the forthcoming visit of the prime minister of Mauritania, an unfriendly desert state in West Africa, but the dazed guest in the Oval Office was the prime minister of ever-so-friendly Mauritius, a lagoon of sorts in the Indian Ocean.
Only after well into the president's hectoring of the policies of Mauritania, Kissinger succeeded in slipping him a note — wrong prime minister, wrong country.
www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckley112601.shtml   (721 words)

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