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Cyber cafe in Rosso, Mauritania.

Against Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Sudan

Mauritania was once a French colony.

After destroying their homes, the landslides left hundreds of families in Kaedi (Southern Mauritania), Makta'a Lahjar and Aleg (Central Mauritania), and Nema (Eastern Mauritania), without roofs over their heads.

A deserted drought stricken village in Mauritania.

How and wy slavery still exists in Mauritania?

Few people know about Mauritania, that African state.

Mauritania is a country rich in mineral resources.

Here is a sample of tweets about slavery in Mauritania

Some were picked up in Bosnia, Indonesia, Thailand, Mauritania, and Pakistan.

February 25 youth stage a symbolic funeral of Mauritania Constitutional Institutions

After reading CNN's report, Abby asked her friend about slavery in Mauritania.

'Traditional' bondage in Mauritania forced prostitution in Europe and bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan.

Munns For a country like Mauritania to not acknowledge slavery and all the abuse the people endure is definitely going against the deen . RedTopShwty Slavery still exists in the country of Mauritania....

In June 2011, Aconerly wrote a piece titled Beyond Abolition Ending Slavery in Mauritania

Against Grenada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, United States of America

Other human rights issues in Mauritania include female genital mutilation, child labour, and human trafficking.

The extreme economic inequalities in Mauritania play a large part in the preservation of these relationships.

How long have you lived in Mauritania and what took you there in the first place?

Responding to the CNN's special report, Erin Pettigrew, a Mauritania expert, explains the complexity of the problem

Slaves in Mauritania do not have a legal right to own property, let alone have a surname.

Landslides resulting from recent heavy rain have left hundreds of families homeless in different parts of Mauritania.

Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro ( Isabelfiadeiro) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery.

Stef_Muller khanyisile There's slavery everywhere, I guess the diff is it's legal in Mauritania (can't read the article).

A UN Special Rapporteur led a mission to Mauritania in 2009 to evaluate slavery practices in the country.

Global Voices spoke to Fiadeiro about her art and how sketching has helped her get to know Mauritania.

Mauritania has a host of serious problems, corrupt government, desertification, lack of water enough wells, poor education system etc.

Homosexuality is outlawed in 38 African countries and it can be punishable by death in Mauritania, Sudan, and northern Nigeria.

1968 1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guinea to Senegal, in Dakar, with competence in Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Spain.

The government of Mauritania, a country in the Maghreb in West Africa, usually denies the existence of slavery in the country.

Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania with images of daily life in the West African nation.

The creation of a terrorist axis in Africa, which will move from Mauritania to Somalia via Nigeria, now disquiets all security specialists.

Later this year I would like to hold some talks and workshops to encourage more people in Mauritania to sketch from observation.

In the north, Tuaregs traveling to Mauritania, Algeria and Niger, were particularly weakened by persistent drought and the collapse of the caravan economy.

That was all mentioned but certainly not emphasized in the documentary probably because the reporters spent a total of 8 days in Mauritania.

The desert encompasses, at least in part, the countries of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan, and Tunisia.

Although Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1981 and made the practice a crime in 2007, slavery is still a common phenomenon in the country.

PC Mauritania was hard because it was a poor country without a lot of luxuries but in some ways it was easier than Morocco.

Ahmed notes that these kinds of stories are a drop in the sea and that the government in Mauritania keeps turning a bling eye

He argued that there are no chains and slave markets, and 1981 law that abolished slavery invalidates any argument that slavery exists in Mauritania.

We now have another correspondent from Mauritania, Oumar Ball, who started sketching from observation a few years ago and publishes his work on Flickr.

This dilemma underscores the difficulty in crafting a democratization strategy for so vast a region as the Greater Middle East, which stretches from Mauritania to Pakistan.

The heavy rains came after two years of decreased rainfall, which led to droughts all over Mauritania that almost threatened to decimate the country's animal resources.