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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Mauritania

Mauritania stories: 5 news summaries

Mauritian Girls Force-Fed for Marriage

'Torture' returns as ideal of large women makes a comeback

Mar 1, 09 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - A military coup in Mauritania has erased years of advances in women's rights, bringing a resurgence of the practice of force-fattening young girls to prepare them for marriage, the Guardian reports. "A woman's size indicates the amount of space she occupies in her husband's heart," explains an activist,... More »

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obesity • Africa • women's rights • Mauritania • forced marriage • ancient customs • force feeding

 Coup Leader
 Takes Over
 Mauritania

New law confers presidential powers to head of military junta

Aug 12, 08 9:38 AM CDT
(AP) - The military junta that overthrew Mauritania's government last week adopted a law today transferring the power of the presidency to the head of the junta. A statement by the junta blames the deteriorating condition of daily life in Mauritania, the president's stonewalling of various government institutions, and his firing of... More »

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Senegal • Mauritania • coup d'etat • Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

Army Seizes Power in Mauritania

African nation's first democratically elected president captive

Aug 6, 08 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Soldiers in the West African nation of Mauritania mounted a coup d'etat today, arresting the president and prime minister and shutting down state radio and television, the Guardian reports. Troops entered the capital and apprehended Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country’s first democratically elected president, after he began taking... More »

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Africa • military coup • Mauritania • coup d'etat • Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi • Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf

Gunmen Attack Israeli Embassy in Mauritania

Five wounded as building is peppered with machine-gun fire

Feb 1, 08 5:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Six gunmen armed with automatic weapons opened fire on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott today, wounding five people. The attackers shouted "God is great" before the shooting, reports AFP. Although the gunmen fled and remain unidentified, an American terrorist monitor noted that an al-Qaeda leader... More »

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Israel • Mauritania • Nouakchott

Bush Hooked On FON-iks at UN

UN speech draft included phonetic pronunciations

Sep 26, 07 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A draft of President Bush's speech to the United Nations included phonetic spellings to help him pronounce difficult names like sar-KOzee, according to a copy of the speech accidentally posted for a time on the UN website. It was up long enough for reporters to see it, much to the... More »

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Robert Mugabe • Nicolas Sarkozy • White House • Caracas • Dana Perino • UN General Assembly • Harare • Mauritania • George W. Bush

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