Women on the Frontline is a video documentary series, presented by Annie Lennox, that shines a light on violence against women and girls. The series takes the front to homes, villages and cities around the world where a largely unreported war against females is being waged. Broadcast on BBC World for seven weeks in 2008, the series covers: Nepal, where thousands of women are trafficked each year; Turkey, where killing in the name of honour continues; Morocco, where women political activists who have survived torture and imprisonment testify before a government truth and reconciliation commission; the DRC, where women bear the brunt of a 10-year war in the eastern provinces; Colombia, where women have been tortured in the shadow of a guerilla war; Mauritania, where women who have been raped may go to prison; and Austria, where, under a new law, perpetrators of domestic violence are forced to leave home. (Publishers: UNFPA, dev.tv, Austrian Development Cooperation, UNIFEM; Year of Release: 2008)
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Outside the port of Nouadhibou there is sort of a cemetery for abandoned ships. Some of them have simply been left there by their Mauritanian owners, but some are said to have been stranded there since the Gulf War when many Iraqi ships allegedly were left there in order to escape the sanctions against Iraq. When I was there, the last week in January 2007, people said that the Mauritanian government had contracted a German business to clean up the area. Remains to be seen if that is true. It is both fascinating and sad that the ships are where they are today. Cleaned up the area could easily be turned into a wonderful beach for locals and tourists. Even today by the south end towards the suburb Cansado there are areas where you can take a bath in the ocean. Shot with a small digital camera, a Fujifilm Finepix F11. 2011-11-28, update: According to information on several sites the bay of Nouadhibou will be cleaned up with financial help from the European Union. An agreement was signed already in 2006 between the EU and Mauritania: www.delmrt.ec.europa.eu However, in May 2011 the work had not started yet. But, an exposition of photos from the bay of Nouadhibou was presented in the capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott, according to a press release from the EU's delegation in Mauritania. Here are some photos from the exhibition: www.enhaut.org The EU being the EU, has no info on it's website for Mauritania about the exhibition but there is a Word document which you can download ...
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UNHCR and partner organizations are taking on the challenges of helping refugees arriving from Mali at the isolated and arid northern border of Mauritania.
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This is a collection of cinematics from Origin Systems DOS PC game Strike Commander CD. These cinematics take place in the African nation of Mauritania and are from missions 1-3.
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UNHCR and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are training refugees in Mauritania to become health care assistants in the camps where they have fled to.
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Mauritania refugees return home after 20 long years exiled in Senegal. CHAN: Mauritanian refugees have begun returning home from exile in Senegal, nearly two decades after they fled their homeland due to ethnic purges. STORY: The first of thousands of black Mauritanian refugees returned home from exile in Senegal on Tuesday. In 1989 they were forced to flee bloody ethnic purges by the regime of former dictator Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. Hundreds of people were killed and some 80000 expelled when Taya's government drove them out. Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who took office in April, pledged to improve human rights in the Islamic republic. The refugees crossed the Senegal River by ferry to the Mauritanian side of the border town of Rosso. Their goods and livestock packed on white trucks of the UN refugee agency UNHCR. [Aw Abou Bakrin, Rosso Resident]: "We are so happy for the arrival of these people today because it is an event we have waited 20 years for...It's a celebration for everybody, it is the joy for all Mauritania." Roughly half of the Mauritanian refugees remaining in Senegal have already registered to return. [Mamadou Keita,Refugee]: "We will do our best to join our country again but we need to be shown at least the minimum of respect and that the things that have passed don't happen anymore." There remain concerns over lingering racism in the Islamic state and unanswered calls for compensation and the trial of those responsible ...
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Mauritania: الهولندية رحلة على الطريق الى عطار موريتانيا roadtrip to spain marocco west sahara mauritania ending in atar futch tv Mauritania (i /mɔrɪˈteɪniə/; Arabic: موريتانيا‎ Mūrītāniyā; Wolof: Gànnaar; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; French: Mauritanie; Spanish: Mauritania), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by The Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the southwest of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast. The civilian government of Mauritania was overthrown on 6 August 2008, in a military coup d'état led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On 16 April 2009, General Aziz resigned from the military to run for president in the 19 July elections, which he won. In Mauritania about 20% of the population live on less than US $1.25 per day. The Bafours were primarily agriculturalist, and among the first Saharan people to abandon their historically nomadic lifestyle. With the gradual desiccation of the Sahara, they headed south. Following them came a migration of not only Central Saharans into West Africa, but in 1076, Moorish Islamic warrior monks (Almoravid or Al Murabitun) attacked and conquered the ancient Ghana Empire. Over the ...
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West Africa's coastal fish stocks are being depleted by foreign fishing fleets from Europe and Asia. Overfishing is threatening the region's fish resources and the livelihoods of the people of West Africa. For the fishermen of Mauritania, it is getting hard to make a living. Having to venture out further to sea, their small boats are at risk of capsizing in a storm or being overrun by the foreign trawlers.
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Drought in Mauritania's northern desert region affects thousands of Malian refugees.
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UNHCR -- 16 March 2012 - UNHCR and partner organizations are taking on the challenges of helping refugees arriving from Mali at the isolated and arid northern border of Mauritania.
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At Mauritania's border with Mali, a convoy of vehicles sets off with more than 1500 Malian refugees to Mbera, a camp established 50 kilometres away. Learn more and help Malian refugees at: www.UNRefugees.org
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Women on the Frontline is a video documentary series, presented by Annie Lennox, that shines a light on violence against women and girls. The series takes the front to homes, villages and cities around the world where a largely unreported war against females is being waged. Broadcast on BBC World for seven weeks in 2008, the series covers: Nepal, where thousands of women are trafficked each year; Turkey, where killing in the name of honour continues; Morocco, where women political activists who have survived torture and imprisonment testify before a government truth and reconciliation commission; the DRC, where women bear the brunt of a 10-year war in the eastern provinces; Colombia, where women have been tortured in the shadow of a guerilla war; Mauritania, where women who have been raped may go to prison; and Austria, where, under a new law, perpetrators of domestic violence are forced to leave home. (Publishers: UNFPA, dev.tv, Austrian Development Cooperation, UNIFEM; Year of Release: 2008)
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UNHCR and partner organizations are taking on the challenges of helping refugees arriving from Mali at the isolated and arid northern border of Mauritania. To learn more about this emergency, visit: www.unrefugees.org To help the UN Refugee Agency provide emergency aid to Malian refugees, visit www.unrefugees.org
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As war looms between Sudan and South Sudan, Christians of southern origin living in Sudan fear retribution from its Islamic government. As of April 8, at least half a million ethnic southerners (the majority of whom are Christian) living in Sudan are now considered foreigners if they have not registered for citizenship. Officials in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, gave southerners another 30 days to register or leave the country. Most of those affected were refugees that fled north during the long civil war between the mostly Islamic north and the largely Christian south. The war, which ran from 1983 until the signing of a peace deal in 2005, killed nearly 2 million people. Most ethnically southern Sudanese living in Sudan have no strong ties to South Sudan, AllAfrica reported.... (Rescue Christians.org)
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Algeria, Mali, Niger and Mauritania are setting up a joint command heaquarters in southern Algeria to counter a growing al-Qaeda threat in the Sahara Desert region. The Algerian defence ministry announced on Wednesday the command headquarters will be based in the southern Algerian town of Tamanrasset. It comes after a recent meeting of senior officials from seven countries in the region who discussed ways to combat rising violence by the fighters in the Sahara. It has been said that Al Qaeda uses the vast open desert to its advantage. Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports.
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Women on the Frontline is a video documentary series, presented by Annie Lennox, that shines a light on violence against women and girls. The series takes the front to homes, villages and cities around the world where a largely unreported war against females is being waged. Broadcast on BBC World for seven weeks in 2008, the series covers: Nepal, where thousands of women are trafficked each year; Turkey, where killing in the name of honour continues; Morocco, where women political activists who have survived torture and imprisonment testify before a government truth and reconciliation commission; the DRC, where women bear the brunt of a 10-year war in the eastern provinces; Colombia, where women have been tortured in the shadow of a guerilla war; Mauritania, where women who have been raped may go to prison; and Austria, where, under a new law, perpetrators of domestic violence are forced to leave home. (Publishers: UNFPA, dev.tv, Austrian Development Cooperation, UNIFEM; Year of Release: 2008)
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