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Fraud on its way?
The Ould Daddah and Boulkheir campaigns are now best described as “in shock”: the numbers coming out since the polls closed are showing massive majorities for General Ould Abdel Aziz. In N… more →
The Moor Next Door
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 →
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 →
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?
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Kal wrote 18 hours ago: The Ould Daddah and Boulkheir campaigns are now best described as “in shock”: the number … more →
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 →
Pre-election projections in Mauritania: Daddah, Aziz and Boulkheir on top
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Kal wrote 1 day ago: A poll done by the National Gendarmerie within the last 24-48 hours, projects the electoral map (tho … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 Jews
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Kal wrote 5 days ago: Mauritania’s campaign revolves around three candidates: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ould Da … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Addendum on Boulkheir and Obama
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Kal wrote 1 week ago: To clarify the intention of the post “Messaoud Boulkheir: the real Obama story,” it is n … more →
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