Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 8/30/1999
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of August 30, 1999
- Mauritania's people protest normalization with Israel Mauritania-Israel, Politics, 9/2/1999
- Insect threatens crops in Mauritania
The sesamia, a gnawing insect which attacks cereal stalks and discovered four years ago in Brakna, in southern Mauritania, is responsible for the loss of 10,000 tons of sorghum per year in the North African country. Mauritania, Agriculture, 9/1/1999 - Popular regret in Mauritania for normalizing relations with Israel
Amid massive regret expressed by the majority of the people of Mauritania towards normalizing relations with Israel, well-informed sources in the Mauritaniancapital stressed on Tuesday that Mauritanian Minister of Agriculture Muhammad Ould Sedi Ahmad Lakhal will on Thursday conduct a visit to Israel, during which he will sign with several Israeli officials a series of agreements between the two sides. Mauritania-Israel, Politics, 9/1/1999