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Mauritania

Background: Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA siezed power in a coup in 1984. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council headed by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, which declared it would remain in power for up to two years while it created conditions for genuine democratic institutions. For now, however, Mauritania remains, a one-party state. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black population and the Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.



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Areas in Mauritania: Adrar | Assaba | Brakna | Dakhlet Nouadhibou | Gorgol | Guidimaka | Hodh Ech Chargui | Hodh El Gharbi | Inchiri | Tagant | Tiris Zemmour | Trarza

The Adrar Adventure
66 days ago: pnltravels published a blog
The Adrar Adventure
March 11th 2008  Africa » Mauritania » Trarza » Nouakchott
We arrived at the train station early (a small building beside the tracks constitutes the station), to be sure we wouldn't miss the train as we did not know exactly when it left. Our group of four gr ... 12 photos [full story]

Goodbye Morocco, Hello Mauritania!
71 days ago: pnltravels published a blog
Goodbye Morocco, Hello Mauritania!
March 5th 2008  Africa » Mauritania » Dakhlet Nouadhibou » Nouadhibou
We left our hotel in Dakhla, Morocco in a hired car at 7:00 am. We stopped just outside of town to pick up 2 more passengers (thankfully not 4 more! we still haven't recovered from that ride!). Betw ... 4 photos [full story]

Beauty of nothingness
150 days ago: ailee published a blog
Beauty of nothingness
December 18th 2007  Africa » Mauritania
First stop in West Africa and a good place to warm-up before heading south. Vast empty and amazing landscape. ... 23 photos [full story]

DESERTS AND MOSQUITOES
160 days ago: Viajerong Pinoy published a blog
DESERTS AND MOSQUITOES
December 8th 2007  Africa » Mauritania » Dakhlet Nouadhibou » Nouadhibou
The Moroccan side of the border took us just over 3 hours to get through, lot of bureaucracy we got stopped no less than 3 times within the frontier, police stop, army stop etc. Then after we are thro ... 27 photos [full story]

165 days ago: MrBradders published a blog
Goodbye Morocco
December 3rd 2007  Africa » Mauritania
Well, after a good few days bush camping (i.e. just camping in the woods or by a huge sand dune etc) we have arrived in Mauritania. Everyone was glad to see a shower as the rolling about on a hyge ... [full story]

168 days ago: saoirse published a blog
new ramblings
November 30th 2007  Africa » Mauritania » Adrar
Hey Everyone, I think it’s being about a month or so since I updated my blog. Don’t know if anyone even reads these but I thought that I would still write on the chance that people ... [full story]

Les Toubabs font de la Fraude!
172 days ago: Kate in Africa published a blog
Les Toubabs font de la Fraude!
November 24th 2007  Africa » Mauritania » Trarza
Faced with four and a half hours of free time on a Saturday afternoon in Saint Louis, what else were we going to do but walk to Mauritania? Our guidebook had a little map with an arrow saying "Maurita ... 7 photos [full story]

The Train Ride
178 days ago: Marcoelitaliano published a blog
The Train Ride
September 23rd 2007  Africa » Mauritania » Dakhlet Nouadhibou » Nouadhibou
When I got to the station there was still plenty of time before the train left. A man drinking tea in the shade had told me it was twenty past three and the train didn’t go till six o’cloc ... 9 photos [full story]

Kathie
194 days ago: AfricaBound published a blog
Kathie's 30th - Camels in Chinguetti
October 20th 2007  Africa » Mauritania » Adrar » Chinguetti
After a night in Nouakchott to shower and catch up on food shopping we ventured away from the coast inland to the old trading city of Chinguetti. Once a major player in Mauritania, it is still consid ... 32 photos [full story]


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