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The story on Mauritania: Country profile, briefings, recent and past history, Mauritania's challenges as an emerging democracy seeped in a history of military juntas and slavery.
Mauritania at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games
Your Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Mauritania: Mauritania’s Olympic history and country profile, and Mauritania’s athletes at the 2008 Olympics by name and by sport, or game.
Is Moderate Mauritania Radicalizing?
A few but notable incidents have rattled Mauritania, a moderate Arab nation in West Africa. Is Mauritania turning to Radical Islam?
Mauritania: Country Profile
The story on Mauritania: Country profile, briefings, recent and past history, Mauritania's challenges as an emerging democracy seeped in a history of military juntas and slavery.

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