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A Mauritanian man waits for instructions from an election official before casting his ballot in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Sunday, March 11, 2007. Men in flowing white and ochre robes lined up under the light of the moon at voting booths Sunday with hopes t
Africa   Elections   Junta   Mauritania   Photos		  International Herald Tribune 
Mauritania junta promises free elections "soon"
: A day after overthrowing the government in a coup, Mauritania's new military junta announced Thursday it plans to hold free and transparent elections "as soon as possible." The junta leaders did not... (photo: AP /Schalk van Zuydam)
Mauritania's President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, right, talks with Japanese Emperor Akihito
European Union   Mauritania   Military   Photos   Politics		  Belfast Telegraph 
President of Mauritania toppled in breakfast-time coup
Having fired his top military brass over breakfast yesterday, Mauritania's President was probably feeling supremely powerful. But, minutes later, commandos arrived at his suite in the heart of the... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara)
Mauritania President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi participates in the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in Dakar  Canada Dot Com 
Coup ousts Mauritania's first democratic president
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Soldiers overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected president in a coup on Wednesday and announced a military junta was taking charge of the northwest African Islamic... (photo: AP/Rebecca Blackwell)
Africa   Coup   Democratic   Mauritania   Photos   Politics   President
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Major developments in Mauritania
(AP) - Major developments in Mauritania: __ PEOPLE: Mauritania is a desert nation of 3.4 million that straddles sub-Saharan Africa and Arab-influenced North Africa. While most of its people live on... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
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This is a Monday July 2, 2007 file photo of Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, left, as he leaves the Accra International Conference Center after discussions at the African Union summit in Accra, Ghana. Mauritania's presidential spokesman said Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008, renegade army officers have staged a coup, detaining the desert nation's president after he fired the country's top four military officials. President Abdallahi is being held by renegade soldiers at the presidential palace in Nouakchott, his spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadou Syracuse
Mauritania army stages coup; junta takes charge
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Army officers staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday and detained the president and prime minister, overthrowing the first government to... (photo: AP / Olivier Asselin)
Mauritania   Military   Photos   Politics   Society
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Greenpeace cites rising e-waste in Africa
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Greenpeace called on the world's electronics companies Tuesday to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy... (photo: GFDL)
Africa   Dakar   Greenpeace   Photos   Waste
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 4, 20 BBC News
Health systems 'impede' HIV fight

Former US President Bill Clinton has said that improving health services is the main challenge to fighting HIV/Aids in Africa, not a lack of money. In a BBC interview, Mr... (photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghin)
  Africa   Aids   Health   Photos   US
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Clinton foundation to refocus on U.S. AIDS

(08-05) 04:00 PDT Mexico City -- Fresh off a whirlwind tour of AIDS programs across Africa, former President Clinton said Monday that new U.S. figures highlight the need... (photo: Creative Commons / bronayur)
Africa   Mexico   Photos   Politics   US
Ghana Reflector
Lessons from Ghana: ECU students learn about their heritage
Sometimes home can be thousands of miles away. This summer, six East Carolina University students and three faculty members learned that first-hand when they traveled... (photo: GFDL / DavidLey )
Africa   Ghana   Heritage   Photos   Students
Workers of the IBM International Computer maker Corporation´s plant leave after they got fired in Szekesfehervar near Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2002. A few days earlier it was officialy announced at a meeting of the workers´ comm Rocky Mount Telegram
IBM sending rising stars overseas

IBM Corp. started shipping some of its most promising up-and-coming leaders out of the country this summer. The company asked them to drop everything for a month to go... (photo: apphoto)
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An unidentified man carries a sick person to the clinic in a wheelbarrow near President Robert Mugabe's rally in Bulawayo, Friday, June, 20, 2008. Unity deal may leave Robert Mugabe in power The Australian
A Sudanese family build a defensive wall to protect their home from the Nile flood waters, Sunday Aug. 20, 2006, in the town of Sinja, 500 Km south of Khartoum, Sudan. More than 1000 houses in Sinja have been destroyed by the rising waters, and 7 camps have been established on high ground to host the some 1200 families who have been displaced by Blue Nile floo Floods displace 40,000 people The Australian
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Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olli Heinonen, attends a meeting with Iranian top Iranian nuclear negotiator, Javad Vaeedi, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, on Monday Oct. 29, U.N. nuclear inspector in Iran for talks Reuters
1940's -- ATOMIC BURST. At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. August 5, 1945. The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century The Guardian
International Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director Olli Heinonen is mobbed by the media as he arrives in Beijing Saturday, June 30, 2007. North Korea has moved a step closer to fulfilling a promise to shutter its main nuclear reactor, after reaching an agreement with international monitors on how to verify a shutdown. Heinonen announced the tentative deal Friday after wrapping up a visit to the North, which included the U.N. nuclear watchdog's first trip to the Yongbyon reactor since inspectors were expelled from the country in 2002 IAEA official to visit Iran for nuclear talks Houston Chronicle
Rwanda Genocide - A family that fled the fighting in Rwanda rests in a camp in Bukavu, Zaire, 25 July 1994. Rwanda accuses France of genocide Al Jazeera
A wall painting of Saddam Hussein covered with bullet holes along side highway six in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom White House denies fake Iraq-al-Qaeda link letter San Diego
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana listens during a press conference in Berlin, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Solana and his colleagues talked about the outcome of the conference "Managing Global Insecurity" in Berlin from July 15-16, Iran hands over letter to big powers The Star
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