Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's electoral officials
have decided not to deploy mobile polling stations in remote
areas of the country during the 4 November presidential
elections, informed sources said here on Tuesday.
14/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - British entrepreneurs specialised
in tourism from 15 firms are currently touring Mauritania, an
official source disclosed here Monday.
13/10/2003full text...
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe clobbered Mauritania 3-0 in a
2006 World football Cup qualifying tie here Sunday, maintaining
an international momentum that has since seen the southern
African country qualify for next year's Cup of Nations finals in
Tunisia for the first time since independence in 1980.
12/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Ahead of next month's
presidential election, the authorities in Mauritania have refused
to recognise a newly formed NGO, dubbed National Observatory on
Democracy and Transparency (ONDT).
12/10/2003full text...
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe, bubbling after a string of
recent soccer successes, take on Mauritania on Sunday in Harare
in a 2006 World Cup preliminary round first leg qualifier.
10/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian dailies commented
lengthily this week on a brawl between supporters and opponents
of President Ould Taya within the Mauritanian community
Brussels last 4 October.
10/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Two promoted Nouakchott teams,
SOCOGIM and El Amedi will play next season in the Mauritanian
football premier league, sports sources affirmed here Monday.
06/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The official Mauritanian news
agency (AMI) has won the Mediterranean news agency pool's best
photo prize, the Internet site of the regional pool indicated.
06/10/2003full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - A "serious political crisis" might erupt
in Mauritania after the 7 November presidential election,
spokesperson Abdel-Nasser Ould Yessa of the opposition Conscience
and Resistance warned here Monday.
06/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Six West African states have
pledged to undertake measures to transform the Sub-Regional
Fishery Commission (CSRP) into "a powerful integration tool" for
their fishery sectors.
06/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Maaouya
Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya on Sunday received Grant Green, the US
under-secretary of state in charge of administration, who is on a
working visit to Mauritania.
06/10/2003full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - Belgian police reportedly arrested about
15 Mauritanians during clashes Saturday between partisans of the
ruling Republican Democratic and Social Party (PRDS) and
opponents of the Nouakchott regime in Brussels, a rights group
disclosed here.
05/10/2003full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - Former Mauritanian president Moktar Ould
Daddah will release his memoirs on 27 October titled "Mauritania
against all odds", published at Karthala Editions in Paris,
sources said here Sunday.
05/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - More than 30 Mauritanians
deported from Spain for illegal entry were flown home Saturday by
the Spanish Kingdom, airport sources disclosed Sunday.
05/10/2003full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Dakar-based African League for the
Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO) has urged Mauritanian
authorities to open "an independent and unbiased inquiry" into
the death of a young suspected thief who died in police custody
nearly two weeks ago.
04/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Newspapers in Mauritania this
week concentrated on steps taken by three opposition candidates
toward the enforcement of transparency ahead of the 7 November
presidential elections in the country.
03/10/2003full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Mauritania has withdrawn its candidature
for a non-permanent member seat on the UN Security Council for
2004-2005 to support the bid of Benin, a foreign ministry
official said here Thursday.
02/10/2003full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - The African Liberation Forces in
Mauritania (FLAM) on Wednesday categorically denied in Paris
having recently contacted Mauritanian President Maouya Ould
Sid'Ahmed Taya either in Mauritania or Senegal.
01/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President
Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya has promised that the
country's 7 November presidential polls would be
transparent, his spokesman Mohamed Vall Ould Belal
said.
01/10/2003full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - US ambassador to Nouakchott
Joseph Le Baron has called for free and fair presidential
poll in Mauritania.
30/09/2003full text...
