How To Use Mauritania In A Sentence
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Just one more before we quit this topic: the Mauritanian ouguiya!
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Mauritania's famous Nouadhibou beach-camp is not the same as it once was, but French anglers in particular still go there to chase after the denizens of its surf - with large rays and guitarfish still the main attraction.
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In Mauritania, adult locusts have been forming swarms in parts of the north and northwest where vegetation is drying out, and some of these swarms have been seen moving northwards towards Morocco.
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The war-torn nation hoped their match against Mauritania would bring unity.
The Sun
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Younis al-Mauritani, also known as The Mauritanian, was among three suspected al-Qaida operatives captured in the city of Quetta, which is the capital of southwest Baluchistan and has long been a transit point for militants crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Mauritanian troops staged a military coup early Wednesday and detained the President Abdallahi and PM El-Ouakef.
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In July a joint French and Mauritanian operation tried to rescue a 78-year-old French aid worker who had been kidnapped by AQIM.
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That on the Mauritanian side was called Abyla, from Ab-El, parens Sol: the other in Iberia had the name of [797] Calpe.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Unknown assailants attacked a group of Western tourists in the West African country of Mauritania Sunday, according to diplomatic sources in the capital Nouakchott.
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Mauritania withdrew in 1979, but Polisario fought Moroccan occupation for 16 years.
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The sound of an ocean amid the searingly dry heat of the Sahara - it could only be Mauritania.
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The association of money names with other weights is common: ouguiya (Mauritania) means
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The Netherlands Ornithological Mauritanian Expedition of 1980 gathered comprehensive data on waders, crustacea, and other fauna.
Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Staff left the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott Friday, a Reuters witness said.
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And in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott, police sources said Yacoub Ould Dahoud, 40, a company director and member of a wealthy family, staged a self-immolation protest on Monday against alleged government mistreatment of his tribe.
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A suicide bomber has attacked the French Embassy in the West African State of Mauritania.
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The region," said Lucien, "was first known as Numidia and Mauritania;
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NOUAKCHOTT - Mauritanian authorities arrested the leaders of the country's two main opposition parties, accusing them of fomenting three days of riots in the capital Nouakchott, state radio said.
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As an ounce it weighs differently in every country and in Barbary (Mauritania) which we call Morocco, it is
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Abu Zeid vowed to seek revenge in July after Sarkozy ordered French commandos to participate along with Mauritanian special forces in an attack on one of his Malian camps, in a failed attempt to liberate another French hostage, 78-year-old Michel Germaneau.
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The Mauritanian government has asked the IOM for help in evacuating some of its citizens.
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Brahim says soldiers are still searching the forest for surviving fighters because the government in Nouakchott is determined to remove all threats to Mauritanian security.
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The management council, a group of advisers to al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, includes planner and explosives expert Saif al Adel, who is from Egypt; spokesman Sulayman Abu Ghayth, of Kuwait; Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, of Egypt, who was a member of bin Laden's inner shura council; planner Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, of Egypt; and spiritual leader Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, a Mauritanian.
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The currency of Mauritania is ougiya, which is is divided into 5 khoums, but these are not in use.
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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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We're far now from Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, a city of heat, dust and sand-coloured auberges
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
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I could go on at some length, but I will only mention that a manat is equivalent to 100 gopik in Azerbaijan, that a ngultrum is 100 chetrums in Bhutan and that a ouguiya is worth 5 khoums in Mauritania.
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Hamra checkpoint, the main Algerian - Mauritanian border point, is a long drive on extremely difficult roads from the main cluster of refugee camps in Tindouf.
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Standing ankle-deep in the brown waters of a paddy field in Niono, south of the Mauritanian border, rice producer Soumaila Kindo declares that private enterprise is the answer.
Mali's farmer organisations
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
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While the bombing is the biggest Mauritanian “story” to catch western media attention since the election Mauritanians are more concerned with other troubles related to legitimacy and creeping despotism.
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The monetary unit in Mauritania is the ouguiya, which is divided into five khoums.
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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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Mauritanian security forces last year in the help of French troops, destroyed across the border in northern Mali, "Li Buji organization of the Islamic Maghreb, " a military base.
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The two bikers today set off on the eighth stage, through Mauritania from Atar to Tidjikja.
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Mauritanian tropical fish
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In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.”
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Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts, or murabitun.
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Most Mauritanians work as farmers, cattle herders, or traders.
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Waves of immigrants began to flow into Mauritania in the third century AD.
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Malouma is from Mauritania on the west coast of Africa, immediately to the north of Senegal, and could rarely have encountered such an unhelpful context in which to impress the huddle of promoters and journalists.
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And in Mauritania, the age-old practice of force-feeding young girls-a life-threatening process that is intended to make them round and therefore "marriageable" - has seen a renaissance.
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The panel, which includes the presidents of Mauritania, South Africa, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Chad, is to meet Friday in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.
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And locusts are seen swarming in the Mauritania.
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‘I should have put more planning into my plan’ said Mauritania as Jess tried fumbled with keys in the infinite number of locks on the door.
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The population involved are black immigrants from francophone Africa, especially from Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and other francophone West African countries
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Their regions were identified as Numidia, Mauritania, and several others.
The Coming Revolution
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He's already been to Tunisia, and is to go on to Morocco and Mauritania.
