Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 8/16/2004
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of August 16, 2004
- Morocco, Mauritania sign partnership convention
Moroccan and Mauritanian officials signed in Rabat Friday a partnership and cooperation convention between the Mauritanian region of Gorgol and the Moroccan region of Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer. Morocco-Mauritania, Politics, 8/21/2004 - AU Commission President calls for emergency aid to Mauritania to fight locusts
Chairman of the African Union Commission, Alpha Omar Konare, termed the locust infestation in Mauritania as "grave and of great concern," warning the situation could get worse in the coming months "unless the international community acts to support this country in the fight of the phenomenon." Mauritania, Local, 8/20/2004 - Nouakchott continues detentions, the ruling party organizes a march
Acts of detentions continue in the lines of the army and security forces in Nouakchott on the background of what the government said was a coupe attempt. The opposition stressed that the matter is just a tribal and politics in the army. Mauritania, Politics, 8/18/2004