Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is an Arab Maghreb country in West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west...
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Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is an Arab Maghreb country in West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west...
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inhabitants of Mauritania were the Bafour, presumably a Mande ethnic group, connected to the contemporary Arabized minor social group of Imraguen ("fishermen")...
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part of Mauritania's drive to attract support from Western states and Western-aligned Arab states. Mauritania has not rescinded its recognition of Polisario's...
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18 years after independence, Mauritania was a one-party state under Moktar Ould Daddah. This was followed by decades of military rule. The first fully...
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Mauritania, formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west...
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Opération Lamantin (category Wars involving Mauritania)
1977 – July 1978 military intervention by France on the behalf of the Mauritanian government, in its war against Sahrawi guerrilla fighters of the Polisario...
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The Armed Forces of Mauritania (Arabic: الجيش الوطني الموريتاني, romanized: al-Jaysh al-Waṭanī al-Mūrītānī, French: Armée Nationale Mauritanienne) is...
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Constitution of Mauritania. The first president who adhered to the term limits was Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in 2019. 1960–1961: Acting Head of State 1961–1978: President...
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finished 0–0. On 18 November 2018, Mauritania qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in history, after they won 2–1 against Botswana...
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Los Angeles) made serious bids for the 1984 Summer Games, but before the final selection of a winning city in 1978, the bid from Tehran was withdrawn in...
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is a list of years in Mauritania. 1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980s...
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Baʿth and the Haratine in Mauritania to help them in their quest. In the period 1978–1984 the party intensified its effort of recruiting members within...
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features of the population of Mauritania (Arabic: التركيبة السكانية في موريتانيا) include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace...
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Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla (category Heads of state of Mauritania)
was the head of state of Mauritania (Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation, CMSN) from 4 January 1980 to 12 December 1984. He was an...
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National anthem of Mauritania (Arabic: النشيد الوطني الموريتاني), also known by its incipit, "Bilāda l-ʾubāti l-hudāti l-kirām" (English: "Land of the Proud...
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the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries is the colonial period in Mauritania. Before the nineteenth century, the European powers in West Africa were...
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Burkina Faso national football team (redirect from History of the Burkina Faso national football team)
Nations. Burkina Faso first entered the World Cup in the 1978 qualifying tournament, beating Mauritania in the preliminary round before losing 1–3 against Ivory...
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Precolonial Mauritania, lying next to the Atlantic coast at the western edge of the Sahara Desert, received and assimilated into its complex society many...
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Mauritanian government's position yet more fragile, and thousands of Mauritanian Sahrawis defected to Polisario. In 1978 the army seized control of the...
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Togo, Tunisia and Mauritania) and four draws, which saw them finish the group in second place and qualify for their first African Cup of Nations tournament...
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Tiris al-Gharbiyya (category 1970s in Mauritania)
the area of Western Sahara under Mauritanian control between 1975 and 1979. Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish colony of Spanish...
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Comité Militaire de Salut National, CMSN) was a military Government of Mauritania that took power in the 1979 coup d'état. It was installed by Mohamed...
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Islamic republic (redirect from Islamic Republic of)
Republics of Iran, Pakistan, and Mauritania. Pakistan first adopted the title under the constitution of 1956. Mauritania adopted it on 28 November 1958...
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The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted...
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Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction) (redirect from National Command of the Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction))
Baaʿth and the Haratine in Mauritania to help them in their quest. In the period 1978–1984, the party intensified its effort of recruiting members within...
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Pulaar language (category Languages of Mauritania)
known as Haalpulaar'en live in Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, and western Mali. The two main speakers of Pulaar are the Toucouleur people and the Fulɓe...
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rights in Mauritania are generally seen as poor according to international observers, including Freedom House, the United States Department of State, and...
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Western Sahara War (category Wars involving Mauritania)
(and Mauritania from 1975 to 1979), being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict. The conflict erupted after the withdrawal of Spain...
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in 1984, when presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya. The fighting that resulted began on April 6, 1984, and...
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