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MAURITANIA: Fistula - a medical and cultural problem

IRIN

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Efforts to reduce cases of obstetric fistula in Mauritania have been slowed by local customs and beliefs. “Fistula is seen as a punishment,” said...

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Four French tourists killed in Mauritania

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Wikinews

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Gunmen have killed four French tourists in Mauritania, Africa. The police chief of Aleg, Mohamed Ould Lemine, told Associated Press that the tourists...

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MAURITANIA: Donor funds needed to clear landmines

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IRIN

Friday, December 21, 2007

Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. Only the passing of trains transporting minerals out...

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MAURITANIA: The real beginning of the end of slavery?

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IRIN

Monday, December 10, 2007

Four months after the passing of a law criminalising slavery in Mauritania, anti-slavery activists hope newly-announced funding for the reintegration...

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MAURITANIA: Discrimination, staff shortages mean mental health short changed

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IRIN

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Taking her 15 year old daughter to see a psychiatrist was the last resort for Dianaba Dia. For months beforehand she had used a local doctor who...

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MAURITANIA: New govt tackling waste management

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IRIN

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Since the 1970s, Mauritania’s capital city has been growing explosively and today a million people call the scruffy, ramshackle city’s collection of...

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MAURITANIA: UN refugee agency calls for funds to get Mauritanian refugees home

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IRIN

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

The UN refugee agency is asking donors for US$7 million to help tens of thousands of Mauritanians return home nearly 20 years after ethnic fighting...