A Call for More Religious Tolerance in Mauritania
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, a 28 year old blacksmith in Nouadhibou (a town 465 km north of Nouakchott, Mauritania), was charged with apostasy by the penal court for questionning on online forum some...
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VIDEOS: Argentina's Melting Pot of Culinary Traditions
[All links lead to Spanish-language sites unless otherwise noted.] The diverse migratory flows that have reached Argentina from the 1880's and until now contributed to the richness and variety of the...
View ArticleQuran Desecration Sparks Trouble in Mauritania
The Mauritanian capital Nouakchott witnessed violent clashes [en] between security forces and an angry crowd. The story is that anonymous people tore up the Quran, the holy book of Islam, in one of the...
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Are Economic Sanctions Effective Against Rogue Rulers?
[All links lead to French-language pages except when otherwise noted.] Since Russia's military intervention in Crimea, economic sanctions have been threatened as a means of penalizing Vladimir Putin's...
View ArticleWhen Will Impunity End for Slave Traders in Mauritania ?
A protest coordinated by several Mauritanian civil society organizations and political parties was held on April 29, 2014 in Nouakchott. The protest was initiatied by members of Haratin tribe who...
View ArticleMauritanian Police Clamps Down on Black Protest
On May 4, 2014, Mauritanian police broke up [ar] a massive gathering in Nouakchott. People were commemorating [ar] the return of a group of Mauritanian blacks [ar] from Senegal in 2008 [en] , after...
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Two Activists Arrested During Electoral Crackdown in Algeria
Mohand Kadi and Moez Benncir are two young activists from Algeria and Tunisia who believe in democracy and in change and who have been jailed in Algiers prison since April 16. Their crime: Having the...
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Mauritania and the Presidential Elections
With the Presidential Elections on the horizon, Mauritanians are anticipating what the days hold for them. A wide spectrum of the opposition is planning to snub [en] the ballot penciled for June 21. In...
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Moroccan Hackers Attack Mauritanian Government Sites
A group of hackers calling themselves the “Moroccan Secret Agent” have succeeded in breaching and seizing control [ar] of several Mauritanian governmental websites. The group defaced the websites with...
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Stop Using Growth as an Excuse to Pollute, African Activists Say
Extreme flooding hit Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after unusually heavy rains saturated the East African capital city in April 2014. Photo by Peter Stanley. Copyright Demotix. [Most links lead to...
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AQIM Losing Ground to Dāʻish in the Sahel Region
AQIM militants in the Algerian desert via wikimedia commons – Public Domain While the Islamist group Boko Haram threatens to extend its caliphate in the north -east part of Nigeria, major developments...
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Activists Persecuted for Opposing Land-Grab-Driven Slavery in Mauritania
School children in Mauritania via wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 Many Mauritanian citizens cannot wait for the year 2014 year to end. Unfortunately, 2015 does not look promising either. First, blogger Mohamed...
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What Drives Blasphemy Charges in the Middle East? (It's Not Just Religion)
Cartoon in support of Jabeur Mejri, by Fey Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed was sentenced to death by firing squad on December 24, 2014, for an online article he published over a year...
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What Do Africans Think of the Film ‘Timbuktu’ About Life Under Islamic...
A woman in tears in a screen capture of a scene from the trailer for the film Timbuktu Timbuktu, a film by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, won big at the 40th Cesar Awards, France's...
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Refugees Met with Generosity and Suspicion in France
Demonstrations in large European cities in favor of refugees (various sources) Hundreds of thousands of Europeans took to the streets in the continent's urban centers on 12 September 2015 to show their...
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