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Mauritania: Jailed Editor Pardoned (Apr. 16, 2009) According to the organization Reporters Without Borders, on April 8, 2009, the head of Mauritania's military government, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, pardoned the editor of a weekly magazine, the Arabic-language publication AL-AQSA. Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna had been jailed in Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital city, after extradition to Mauritania from Dubai; he […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2009-04-16

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Mauritania; Senegal: Fishery Agreement Signed (Apr. 2, 2008) Mauritania and Senegal signed a one-year fishery agreement, under which 300 permits will be issued to Senegalese fishermen working in Mauritanian waters. The agreement was concluded in the Mauritanian capital Noakchott by Mauritanian Fishing Minister Assane Soumaré and the Senegalese State Minister and Maritime Transport Economy, Fishing and Apiculture Minister Souleymane Ndéné […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2008-04-02

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Mauritania: Senate Abolished in Referendum (Aug. 22, 2017) On August 5, 2017, Mauritania held a referendum in which the country voted to change to its government structure, abolishing the Senate. (Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi, Mauritania Votes in Referendum to Abolish Senate, PAPER CHASE (Aug. 7, 2017).) Previously there was a bicameral legislature that consisted of the Senate (Majlis al-Shuyukh) and the National […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2017-08-22

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Mauritania: New Finance Law in Force (Feb. 12, 2010) Mauritania's Finance Law for 2010, which was adopted on December 23, 2009, came into effect on January 1, 2010. It includes provisions on direct taxation, indirect taxation, and tax management.(Felix Buma, Mauritania: Finance Law for 2010 – Summary, IBFD TAX NEWS SERVICE, Feb. 4, 2010, subscription newsletter from taxnewsservice@ibfd.org.) The direct taxation […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2010-02-12

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Mauritania: Court Sentences Anti-Slavery Activist, Acquits Others (Sept. 1, 2011) On August 22, 2011, eight individuals accused of “unauthorized gathering and rebellion” were acquitted by a court in Mauritania, while the remaining defendant, Belkheir Ould Cheikh, was sentenced to three months of imprisonment. All nine were members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA), an anti-slavery […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2011-09-01

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Mauritania; United Nations: Plan to End Slavery Expected (Mar. 11, 2014) Gulnara Shahinian, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary slavery, announced that on February 27, 2014, Mauritania agreed to adopt a roadmap to end slavery. (UN Expert Urges Mauritania to Take More Vigorous Efforts to Eliminate Slavery, UN NEWS CENTRE (Feb. 27, 2014).) The roadmap, due to be adopted on March 6, […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2014-03-11

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Mauritania: Plan to Revise Criminal Code to Include Rape (May 22, 2009) According to a statement from the Mauritanian Association for Maternal and Child Health, a United Nations-funded nongovernmental organization in the country's capital city of Nouakchott, there is no mention of rape in the criminal laws of Mauritania. Women who attempt to press charges for sexual assaults are often themselves viewed as criminals, […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2009-05-22

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Mauritania: Agreement May Lead to Return to Constitutional Government (June 22, 2009) On June 4, 2009, Mauritania took a step toward a return to constitutional order and democratic rule. The country had undergone a coup d'état in 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallah, elected in 2007, was thrown out of office by the military. On June 2, 2009, an agreement was reached in […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2009-06-22

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Mauritania: Anti-Terror Law Rejected by Constitutional Council (Mar. 8, 2010) On March 4, 2010, following an appeal by 32 Members of the National Assembly, the Constitutional Council of Mauritania rejected the country's new law on terrorism, calling a number of the articles unconstitutional. The law, which was adopted by the legislature on January 5 of this year, had permitted preventive detention, phone-tapping, […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2010-03-08

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Africa: Death Penalty Developments (Nov. 2, 2007) The non-governmental human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) reported in October 2007 on various developments concerning capital punishment in five African countries. Most notably, Rwanda abolished the death penalty on July 27, 2007, resulting in the commutation of the sentences of about 600 death row prisoners to life imprisonment. According to AI, […]

Contributor: Zeldin, Wendy
Date: 2007-11-02

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Spain: National Police Chief Addresses Anti-Terrorism Policies (Sept. 29, 2016) The head of Spain’s National Police gave an address describing how Spain’s efforts to improve anti-terrorist cooperation among European Union Member States, and arguing against national border patrols within the European Union. (Hugo Gutiérrez, El Director de la Policia Nacional Pide mas Cooperación Europea contra el Terrorismo, EL PAIS (Aug.1, 2016).) He argued […]

Contributor: Rodriguez-Ferrand, Graciela
Date: 2016-09-29

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Economic Community of West African States: Niger Found Guilty in Slavery Case (Oct. 30, 2008) The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in a landmark decision, recently found Niger guilty of failing to protect a woman from slavery. Hadijatou Mani, who was a slave for ten years following her sale as a child, was awarded a payment of ten million […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2008-10-30

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Mali: Sharia Law Imposed in North (Aug. 14, 2012) Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) have occupied northern Mali, controlling about 60% of the country, since late March 2012. These two armed groups have as a goal the imposition of Sharia (Islamic law) throughout the country. (Forcing Sharia Law in Mali, […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2012-08-14

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Mali; United Nations: Rights Expert Calls for Stronger Judicial System (Mar. 11, 2014) Suliman Baldo, the United Nations independent expert on human rights in Mali, recently expressed his concern that crimes committed both by rebel groups and national forces during the 2012 conflict in the northern part of the country were not being effectively prosecuted. He issued this assessment in a press release, following his […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2014-03-11

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Morocco: Human Rights Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison (Dec. 4, 2014) On November 27, 2014, the appellate court in the city of Agadir, Morocco, sentenced the Western Saharan rights activist Abdelkhalik el-Markhi to four years in prison. The sentence came on the opening day of the World Forum for Human Rights in Morocco. (Four Years of Imprisonment for the Sahraoui Rights Activist “Abdelkhalik […]

Contributor: Saliba, Issam
Date: 2014-12-04

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Mali: Peace Deal Concluded (June 26, 2015) On June 20, 2015, Tuareg rebels, who have been in conflict with authorities in Mali for years, signed a peace accord with the government. The accord gives the northern part of the country, which includes the cities of Timbuktu and Gao, partial autonomy. The Tuareg had taken over that part of Mali […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2015-06-26

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Gambia: State of Emergency Lifted (Jan. 30, 2017) On January 24, 2017, Gambia’s legislature ended the state of emergency in the country and rescinded the extension of executive power that had been granted to former President Yahya Jammeh. Jammeh had lost an election in December 2016 to Adama Barrow, but for a time refused to leave office and hand over […]

Contributor: Johnson, Constance
Date: 2017-01-30

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