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Ex-junta chief 'ahead' in Mauritania poll: commission

Garry Benfold wrote 9 hours ago: Mauritania’s coup leader Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz took a commanding lead in the presidential e … more →

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Mauritanian parties claim fraud over poll results

Garry Benfold wrote 9 hours ago: The main opposition candidates in Mauritania’s presidential ballot said Sunday the vote was ri … more →

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Polls Close, Counting Begins in Mauritania

eveningsentinel wrote 11 hours ago: Vote counting is underway in Mauritania following Saturday’s presidential election. Nine candi … more →

Fraud on its way?4 comments

Kal wrote 18 hours ago: The Ould Daddah and Boulkheir campaigns are now best described as “in shock”: the number … more →

Tags: Recently in Mauritania

Polls Close, Counting Begins in Mauritania

Garry Benfold wrote 1 day ago: The polls in Mauritania’s presidential election have closed and officials are counting ballots … more →

Tags: election

Pre-election projections in Mauritania: Daddah, Aziz and Boulkheir on top2 comments

Kal wrote 1 day ago: A poll done by the National Gendarmerie within the last 24-48 hours, projects the electoral map (tho … more →

Tags: Africa, Ahmed Ould Daddah, Balance of Power, Ely Vall, Francophonie, GeoPolitics, Maghreb, Messoud Boulkheir, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz

Post-coup Mauritania election begins

Garry Benfold wrote 1 day ago: A former military general who ousted this Islamic nation’s first freely elected president is v … more →

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Mauritania vote: one step on democratic road

Garry Benfold wrote 2 days ago: At the end of a long road that disappears in a scrub-brush desert where camels trek across orange ri … more →

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A High Stakes Struggle: the Crescent, the Horse and the Tank

Kal wrote 2 days ago: Ahmed Ould Daddah, head of the RFD and historic leader of Mauritania’s opposition, has ru … more →

Tags: Africa, Ahmed Ould Daddah, Arabs, Balance of Power, Francophonie, Maghreb, Messoud Boulkheir, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Politics

Mauritania vote key to aid, trade restart

Garry Benfold wrote 3 days ago: Mauritania goes to the polls on Saturday in an election meant to end the political crisis that has b … more →

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African Slaves

Michele wrote 3 days ago: For all of the Canadian teachers who think that slaves were only in America and for everyone else wh … more →

Tags: Africa, Islam, News, Slavery, slaves

Arab League to observe Mauritanian presidential vote

Garry Benfold wrote 4 days ago: The Arab League has sent a team to observe the 18 July presidential election in Mauritania. “We … more →

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MAURITANIA TO HOLD ELECTIONS

cttribune wrote 5 days ago: On Saturday In Mauritania, voters will vote for a new President. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a former m … more →

Ould Abdel Aziz & the Jews4 comments

Kal wrote 5 days ago: Mauritania’s campaign revolves around three candidates: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ould Da … more →

Tags: Africa, Bigotry, Ely Vall, Francophonie, Gas, GeoPolitics, Iran, Islamism, Israel

Significant Reduction in Migrants Reaching Canary Islands (News, Statistics)

N Frenzen wrote 5 days ago: Only 1,318 people reached the Canary Islands by boat over the first six months of 2009.  This low nu … more →

Tags: Data + Stats, eastern Atlantic, Frontex, News, Senegal, Spain

Sunday Links: AQIM Releases Hostage, American Somalis in Somalia, EU Cuts Aid to Niger

Alex Thurston wrote 1 week ago: The same AQIM affiliate that executed British citizen Edwin Dyer has released the last (by my count) … more →

Tags: Links/Miscellaneous, AQIM, Ely Vall, niger, Somalia

Is the Telegraph reading TMND?

Kal wrote 1 week ago: With no intention of sounding or being presumptuous: Did the Sunday Telegraph ape my comparison of B … more →

Tags: Africa, Black People, Messoud Boulkheir, News, nick meo, Recently in Mauritania, telegraph, third world

Scoundrel or Statesman? The case of Ely Ould Mohamed Vall

Kal wrote 1 week ago: It was a stirring start. Before some two thousand supporters, many of them former ministers and high … more →

Tags: elites, Maghreb, Power, Sahel, Tribalism, Coups, democracy, Economy, Elite

Addendum on Boulkheir and Obama2 comments

Kal wrote 1 week ago: To clarify the intention of the post “Messaoud Boulkheir: the real Obama story,” it is n … more →

Tags: Africa, Black People, Messoud Boulkheir, obama, Politics, Realism, Recently in Mauritania, third world


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