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MAURITANIA News:
20080119
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 Food
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New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories."
... "Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest
slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States
are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new
factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners
unable to afford the raw material." ... "This is the other oil shock. From
India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil
and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example
of a developing global problem: costly food." ... "The food price index
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, based on
export prices for 60 internationally traded foodstuffs, climbed 37 percent
last year. That was on top of a 14 percent increase in 2006, and the trend
has accelerated this winter." ... "In some poor countries, desperation
is taking hold. Just in the last week, protests have erupted in Pakistan
over wheat shortages, and in Indonesia over soybean shortages. Egypt has
banned rice exports to keep food at home, and China has put price controls
on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs." ... "According to the F.A.O.,
food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico,
Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen." ... "A startling change is unfolding
in the world’s food markets. Soaring fuel prices have altered the equation
for growing food and transporting it across the globe. Huge demand for
biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using
it for food." ... "Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.
But in the developing world, cooking oil is an important source of calories
and represents one of the biggest cash outlays for poor families, which
grow much of their own food but have to buy oil in which to cook it." (1,
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-By Keith Bradsher with contributions by Andrew Martin,
Anand Giridharadas, and Michael Rubenstein
-NYTimes
20050804
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- "Coup
may realign Mauritania." ... "Mauritania's army seized
power yesterday in a swift, apparently bloodless coup which could see the
country move away from its alliances with the US and Israel." ... "Mauritania,
an overwhelmingly Muslim country, is one of only three Arab League states
to have diplomatic ties with Israel." -By Andrew Meldrum
-Guardian.co.uk
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Mauritania
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- "Mauritania
national security chief heads junta after coup."
... "Mauritania's director of national security, colonel Ely Ould Mohammed
Vall, has become head of the junta, or Military Council for Justice and
Democracy, which seized power early yesterday, the Council said in a written
statement last night." ... "The US called for 'a peaceful return to order
under the constitution and the established government of President (Ould)
Taya', acting State Department spokesman Tom Casey said adding Ould Taya,
a US ally, was 'the established, constitutional president of Mauritania'."
-AFXNews via -Forbes
20050803
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Mauritania
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- "Soldiers
in Mauritania stage coup." ... "The Mauritanian armed
forces have taken advantage of the absence of the country's president to
seize power, announcing that Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall would be the
nation's new leader, according to a statement released by the state new
agency." ... "The coup occurred when President Maaouya Taya was out of
the country attending the funeral of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The president
is reportedly now in Niger's capital, Niamey, on his way back from Riyadh."
... "There was no immediate word from Taya, who came to power in a 1984
coup that toppled President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah." -Contributions
by Elise Labott -CNN
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Mauritania
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- "Mauritania
officers 'seize power': Mauritanian army officers
have announced the overthrow of the president and creation of a ruling
military council." ... "The military council said it had ended the "totalitarian
regime" of President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya." ... "The new Military
Council for Justice and Democracy said it would rule the West African state
for a transitional period of two years, after which it would organise free
and fair elections."-BBC
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Mauritania
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- "Troops
in Mauritania Seize State Media." ... "Presidential
guard troops in Mauritania's capital took control of the national radio
and television stations Wednesday and seized a building housing the army
chief of staff headquarters while the president was out of the country,
witnesses said." ... "Heavily armed soldiers deployed in force around the
presidential palace, ministries and other strategic buildings and on the
streets of the capital Nouakchott, blocking key roads and several entrances
to the city, an Associated Press reporter on the scene said. " -By
Ahmed Mohamed -Guardian.co.uk
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Mauritania
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- "Army
officers declare coup in Mauritania: Members of presidential
guard take over TV, radio, block streets in capital." ... "A group of Mauritanian
army officers announced the overthrow of the nation's president on Wednesday,
hours after troops took control of the national media and seized the army
chief of staff headquarters in the capital of this oil-rich Islamic nation."
... "The group, which identified itself as the Military Council for Justice
and Democracy, announced the coup against President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya,
who was abroad, through the state-run news agency."
-AP and -Reuters
contributions via -MSNBC
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Mauritania
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- "Troops
block Mauritania streets, president in Niger." ...
"President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, who was out of the country after
attending the funeral of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd in Riyadh on Tuesday,
arrived in Niger's capital Niamey hours after reports of the troop movements
in Nouakchott emerged." ... "Taya seized power in a 1984 coup. He has angered
many Arabs in the country, which straddles black and Arab Africa, by shifting
support from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to Israel and Washington
in the 1990s." ... "Mauritania -- which hopes to start pumping oil early
next year -- is one of only three Arab League member states that have established
diplomatic ties with Israel." -By Ibrahima Sylla
-Reuters
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Mauritania
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- "Firing
heard after Mauritanian army troops launch coup UPDATE."
... "An AFP correspondent heard heavy weapons fire in the almost deserted
city, but its immediate cause was not known, while a military source said
a number of senior officers had been arrested." ... "Ould Taya, who seized
power himself in a bloodless coup in 1984, is a strong ally of the US.
The northwest African country sits on an estimated one bln barrels of oil
and 30 bln cubic meters of natural gas." -AFXNews
via -Forbes
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