The currency of Mauritania is ougiya, which is is divided into 5 khoums, but these are not in use. |
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Others like Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya Yemen and Saudi Arabia have firmly resisted attempts to evangelise their people. |
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Mauritania is one of the last places on earth where slavery is widely practiced. |
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Mauritania withdrew in 1979, but Polisario fought Moroccan occupation for 16 years. |
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The two bikers today set off on the eighth stage, through Mauritania from Atar to Tidjikja. |
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In northern Mauritania, small swarms have already caused damage to the staple crops millet and sorghum, along with date palms and vegetables. |
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It's an opportunity for them to maintain cultural links with the other Tuareg populations in Niger, Algeria, Libya and Mauritania. |
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The monetary unit in Mauritania is the ouguiya, which is divided into five khoums. |
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Many guests are overlanders en route to Mauritania and, ultimately, South Africa. |
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The drivers' biggest challenges will be the Western Sahara with no metalled roads and crossing a minefield in Mauritania. |
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His Senegalese father married his mother, who is from Mauritania, and then emigrated to France. |
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They were from places like Yemen, Saudi Arabia and even as far as Mauritania. |
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He was flown back to Libya by private jet on Wednesday after protracted negotiations with Mauritania. |
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In Mauritania, Chinguetti once flourished with scholars, pilgrims, and religious leaders. |
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The tension culminated in an international airlift agreed to by Senegal and Mauritania under international pressure to prevent further violence. |
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Following the 2008 coup, the military government of Mauritania faced severe international sanctions and internal unrest. |
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In 1905, the French colonial administration declared an end of slavery in Mauritania, with very little success. |
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No cases have been successfully prosecuted under the antislavery law despite the fact that 'de facto' slavery exists in Mauritania. |
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Since Morocco controls most of Western Sahara, its de facto southern boundary is with Mauritania. |
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Giraffes have been extirpated from much of their historic range including Eritrea, Guinea, Mauritania and Senegal. |
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The last race was held in 2007, before the 2008 rally was canceled a day before the event due to security concerns in Mauritania. |
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Berbers set up communities In Mauritania near the Malian imperial capital of Timbuktu. |
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The first Portuguese feitoria overseas was established by Henry the Navigator in 1445 on the island of Arguin, off the coast of Mauritania. |
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In February 2011, the waves of the Arab Spring spread to Mauritania, where thousands of people took to the streets of the capital. |
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In 1975, Spain ceded administration of Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. |
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Mauritania later withdrew, and Morocco's claim to the territory is not internationally recognized. |
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Africa Programme focuses on working against descent based slavery in Mauritania and Niger, as well as forced child begging in Senegal. |
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Several groups of Yemeni Arabs turned south to Mauritania, and by the end of the 17th century, they dominated the entire country. |
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The northernmost section of the border between Mauritania and Mali is defined by the parallel. |
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The Sahara covers large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. |
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There are also small desert crocodiles in Mauritania and the Ennedi Plateau of Chad. |
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Spain withdrew from Western Sahara in 1975, and it was partitioned between Mauritania and Morocco. |
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In 1441, the first slaves were brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania. |
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Many sedentary peoples, whose ancestors had been expelled centuries earlier, began to trickle back into Mauritania. |
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The great Sahel droughts of the early 1970s caused massive devastation in Mauritania, exacerbating problems of poverty and conflict. |
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In 1981 slavery was formally legally abolished by a specific law, making Mauritania the last country in the world to do so. |
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Mauritania has not rescinded its recognition of Polisario's Western Saharan exile government, and remains on good terms with Algeria. |
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Meoni, who had been running second in the motorcycle class just nine minutes behind leader Cyril Despres, crashed his KTM on stage 11, between Atar and Kiffa in Mauritania. |
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Other stone circles can be found on the Adrar Plateau in Mauritania. |
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Among the mobile operators to sign Data Clearing House agreements with MACH so far in Q1 are Leo in Namibia, Mauritel in Mauritania, Iraq's Asiacell and Wataniya in Algeria. |
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These forms of execution remain part of the religious law enforced in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Pakistan and Mauritania. |
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All people are free in Mauritania and this phenomenon no longer exists. |
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The government of Mauritania denies that slavery continues in the country. |
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President of Mauritania laid the foundation stone of the first five-star hotel in Nouakchott within a series of the international Sheraton hotels. |
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Oil was discovered in Mauritania in 2001 in the offshore Chinguetti field. |
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Mauritania has the University of Nouakchott and other institutions of higher education, but the majority of highly educated Mauritanians have studied outside the country. |
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Women in Mauritania who press charges for sexual assault face the risk of jail because of poorly defined laws and stigma that criminalises victims rather than offenders. |
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Despite complaints, the elections were almost unanimously accepted by Western, Arab and African countries, which lifted sanctions and resumed relations with Mauritania. |
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The project is expected to cost around Ouguiya 17 billion to be jointly funded by the Mauritania and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. |
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Unusual landforms include the Richat Structure in Mauritania. |
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Slaves exported from Africa during this initial period of the Portuguese slave trade primarily came from Mauritania, and later the Upper Guinea coast. |
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Other parts of coastlines or oceanic islands from Iberian Peninsula and Portugal to Morocco in north to south possibly reaching even Mauritania to Senegal. |
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Irredentist claims by Morocco and Mauritania were brought before the International Court of Justice, which ruled in favor of the Sahrawis' right to self-determination. |
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Similar cooperative fisheries also exist in Mauritania, Africa. |
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He invested in sponsoring voyages down the coast of Mauritania, gathering a group of merchants, shipowners and stakeholders interested in new sea lanes. |
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