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10
Nov
2009
Traditional slavery in the Sahel

6 hours ago by alle

The Sahel Blog has a post up about slavery in Mauritania, a major but neglected human rights issue in the West Africa and Sahel region, where millions of people are still subject to various forms of hereditary social discrimination, ranging from outsider status to outright slavery. While there is a ...

Maghreb Politics Review - maghrebinenglish.wordpress.com · Rank: 94,724 · 14 references

Mauritania and Slavery

12 hours ago by Alex Thurston

Mauritania made headlines last week when a UN investigator announced that slavery continues there. A 2007 law criminalising slavery in the west African desert state is not being properly enforced and victims are not encouraged to come forward, U.N. rapporteur Gulnara Shahinian told a news conference ...

Sahel Blog - sahelblog.wordpress.com · Rank: 154,050 · 3 references

Keanehan-keanehan di Dunia

19 hours ago by Adrie

The Wave. Between Arizona and Utah – USA Antara Arizona dan Utah – USA There on the border of Arizona and Utah. Ada di perbatasan Arizona dan Utah. made of sand 190 million-year-old who turned to stone. terbuat dari pasir 190 juta tahun yang berubah menjadi batu. Antelope Canyon. Antelope Canyon. Ar ...

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09
Nov
2009
Upcoming

1 day ago by Kal

A post on Tawassoul is forth coming. Posted in Africa, Islamism, Mauritania, Third World

The Moor Next Door - themoornextdoor.wordpress.com · Rank: 34,674 · 44 references

Days 11 and 12 – Mauritania doesn’t want us to leave!

1 day ago by nickigoh, KF9, Senegal

Km: 500 + 320 Time spent digging the van out of the sand in 40 degree heat: 3 hours Abandoned plans: 1 Hours spent on the road (in the 2 days): 29 hours On Friday we left the Nouakchott campsite at 7am to hit the long tarmac road towards the Malian border. We arrived at a town called Kiffa around 9p ...

Thoughts on Microfinance - nickigoh.wordpress.com

Day 10 – A day in Nouakchott

1 day ago by nickigoh, KF9, Senegal

Km count: 0 Poulet yassa count: 1 (YUM – hopefully to be continued in Mali and then Senegal) Refusal of entry to Mauritania: 1 (Tom) Minutes stayed at Mauritanian hip-hop concert: 40 After sorting out our visas in the morning, we met back at the campsite with the guide, Sidi who had suggested that w ...

Thoughts on Microfinance - nickigoh.wordpress.com

Day 9 – Change of plan…This is Africa

1 day ago by nickigoh, KF9, Senegal

Km count: 545 Change of plan: 1 Cups of Mauritanian tea drunk: 3 The plan for today had been to drive down to the National Park on the coast, a bird-lovers’ paradise where the sand dunes of the Sahara meet the Atlantic Ocean. After a few days of long drives clocking up kms, the group has been lookin ...

Thoughts on Microfinance - nickigoh.wordpress.com

E’ caduto il muro??? A me ne sembrano nati così tanti!!

1 day ago by baruda

Ancora ci vengono a raccontare che il muro è caduto, che vent’anni fa siamo diventati più liberi. Non è caduto un bel niente, non è caduto un bel niente. La “cultura” dei muri è all’apice della sua storia … ne vengono alzati di continui, anche su territori in cui sembrerebbe impossibile. Il muro più ...

Polvere da sparo - baruda.net · 14 references

A Whole Lotta Sand

1 day ago by Helen Lloyd

Day 1 – Slow start Not even half a day in reality. By the time we’d had breakfast, packed our panniers, checked emails and then carried the bikes down the narrow stairs of the hotel it was nearing the end of the morning. We had decided to cycle the twenty-or-so kilometres to El Marsa port where we w ...

Take On Africa - takeonafrica.com · 2 references

Why Al – Qaeda is claimed to be strengthening in Sahel Region.

1 day ago by ہارون حیدر

Research by: Syed Haroon Haider Gilani The Sahel, a vast region bordering the Sahara Desert and including the countries of Mali, Niger, Chad and Mauritania, is increasingly referred to by the U.S. military as “the new front in the war on terrorism”. There are enough indications, from a security pers ...

SYED HAROON HAIDER GILANI - haroonhaider.wordpress.com · 1 reference

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