Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 5/5/2003
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of May 5, 2003
- Mauritania's seculars call for releasing the detainees
Senior Mauritanian scholars yesterday issued a statement to Mauritania's President Mu'aweya Weld Sedi Ahmad al-Taye' in which they expressed their " rejection of "jailing Imams and men of religion and preventing them from performing their rituals." Mauritania, Politics, 5/10/2003 - Moroccan fm praises similarity of Moroccan-Mauritanian standpoints
Moroccan Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister, Mohammed Benaissa, on Wednesday praised the convergence of Moroccan and Mauritanian views regarding several issues. Morocco-Mauritania, Politics, 5/9/2003 - Morocco's premier ends visit to Mauritania
Morocco's Prime Minister Driss Jettou ended on Wednesday a two-day official visit to Mauritania during which he co-chaired with Mauritanian peer Cheikh El-Afia Ould Mohamed Khouna the high joint commission 3rd session. Morocco-Mauritania, Politics, 5/8/2003 - Mu'eya detention acts to suppress opposition
Calmly and away from the media and reaction to the occupation of Iraq, there is a fierce campaign against the opposition forces in Mauritania which includes Islamists, Baathists, Nationalists, preachers at mosques and opposition leaderships for normalization with Israel. Mauritania, Politics, 5/8/2003