They are Myriam Ould-Braham, not Ould-Brahm; and Ida Viikinkoski, not Viikinkovski.
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Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed (Mauritania) Blogger in jail for commentary on religion Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed was arrested in 2014 for an article he wrote criticizing the Mauritanian caste system.
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Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, a former general and defence minister, was heavily tipped to replace outgoing President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is stepping aside after serving the maximum two five-year elected terms.
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IRA head Birame Ould Abeid has been jailed several times.
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A Houthi spokesman later accused Ould Cheikh Ahmed of bias.
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"This is really our last chance," said Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
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"The meetings took place in Algiers," Ould Kaddour said, without giving further details.
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Bravo to them, and to Myriam Ould-Braham, dazzling among her excellent female peers.
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Its president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, came to power in a coup in 2008.
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Additional reporting by Hamid Ould Ahmed; writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Kevin Liffey
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"This is really our last chance," Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters in New York.
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And yet, I have some doubt about it,here ould e be ithout it.
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Until recently, the former spy chief Deddahi Ould Abdellahi lived directly across the street.
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Mr. Margolin and Mr. Ould Salem cut that scene and submitted the new version Tuesday.
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Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, who was visiting the southern In Salah gas field, did not elaborate.
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He said Mr. Ould Ahmed was behind attacks on three hotels and a restaurant in Mali.
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Ould Cheikh Ahmed gave no figures on the drop in the value of the Yemeni rial.
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Reporting by Hamid Ould Ahmed; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Frances Kerry and Toby Chopra
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Guinea's President Alpha Conde and Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went to Banjul on Friday.
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CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour said Sonatrach would pay processing costs before bringing refined fuel back to Algeria.
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The UN mediator, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, could barely scramble from Sana'a before the capital was struck.
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The ex-detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 45, was transferred to his native Mauritania on Monday, officials said.
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Interior Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug said 20173 people were taken to a hospital for "urgent" treatment.
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Algeria, a key supplier of gas to Europe, exported 55 bcm of gas in 2017, Ould Kaddour said.
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In 2002, the United States government detained a Mauritanian man, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, and sent him to Gitmo.
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"They are interested in joining Sonatrach to develop offshore drilling activity in Algeria," CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour said.
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Sonatrach has struggled to attract foreign investment, a position that CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kadour is trying to reverse.
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Pence also cited the detention of a 90-year-old Orthodox Church patriarch by Eritrea; the jailing of Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, a blogger in Mauritania, for apostasy; and the imprisonment by Pakistan of Junair Hafeez, a lecturer, who is accused of blasphemy and being kept in solitary confinement.
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The UN secretary-general's special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, called on all parties to show restraint.
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Long-serving parliament speaker Mohamed Al-Arabi Ould Khalifa was left off the FLN lists for May's legislative election.
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"Our goal is to reduce our imports of gasoline, they are too high," Ould Kaddour told reporters on Tuesday.
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The accused was Alhassane Ould Mohamed, also known as Cheibani, who was famed around the Sahel as a smuggler.
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While Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that was a positive sign, the rest of the country remains wracked by violence.
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"There were over 20163 pollen grains per cubic metre in the 24 hours building up to that event," Ould said.
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Bloggers Abderrahmane Weddady and Cheikh Ould Jiddou have been behind bars since March after being accused of spreading false news.
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Rachid Hachichi, Sonatrach's former head of production and exploration, was named chief executive on April 23, replacing Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour.
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My nightstand book (really stored in the crevice between my pillow and headboard) is Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi.
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Reporting by Omar Fahmy, Maher Chmaytelli, Lamine Chikhi and Hamid Ould Ahmed; Writing by Ulf Laessing, Editing by Angus MacSwan
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Al Mourabitoun and AQIM claimed responsibility for all the attacks, but Sangho only linked Ould Ahmed to attacks inside Mali.
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Reporting By Lamine Chikhi and Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Hugh Lawson, William Maclean
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United Nations Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed appealed to the parties on Tuesday to "quicken the pace" of the talks.
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In May a convoy led by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN envoy to Yemen, was attacked by demonstrators in Sana'a.
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El Housseine Ould Nagi, legal counsel to Mauritania's president, strongly denied his government had anything to do with such a deal.
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Another two years passed before Salahi's name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritania's security-intelligence apparatus.
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"The foreign firm will have small shares in the trade joint venture," Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour told Reuters in Algiers.
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"The minute Bouteflika would leave power, Ould Kaddour would be sacked," a reliable source familiar with the matter told Reuters last month.
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The Touat and Timimoun gas projects were due in 2016, but both will not come online until 2018, Ould Kaddour has said.
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He said Ould Ahmed was a member of al Mourabitoun, a militant group allied to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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Contacted by Reuters, five academics who focus on Islamist militant groups in the region said they had never heard of Ould Ahmed.
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El Housseine Ould Nagi, legal counsel to Mauritania's president, denied that his government had had anything to do with such a deal.
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Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour opened the 536-long pipeline linking the desert areas of Rhourd Ennous and Hassi R'mel on Wednesday.
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Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress.
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Mauritania's electoral commission declared last week that government-backed candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani had won the presidency with 52% of the vote.
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Ould Cheikh Ahmed said a "de-escalation and coordination committee" of military representatives from both sides would work to make the truce hold.
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Ould Kaddour's visit marked the fifth anniversary of an attack by al Qaeda-linked militants at Tiguentourine that killed 40 mostly foreign contractors.
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Mr. Sangho said Mr. Ould Ahmed was a member of Al Mourabitoun, a militant group allied with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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Five scholars who focus on Islamist militant groups in the region said in interviews that they had never heard of Mr. Ould Ahmed.
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"We are thrilled that our client's nightmare is finally ending," said Nancy Hollander, one of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's attorneys, in a written statement.
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Here are some of the key developments since Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour took over as CEO of state energy firm Sonatrach in March, 2017.
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Less than two weeks ago, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, a veteran diplomat from Mauritania, announced he was vacating the mediator post in February.
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Interior Minister Ahmedou Ould Abdalla, who announced the arrests, said "foreign hands" were plotting against the state, but did not give further details.
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After the December round of talks, U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he would bring the two sides together again on Jan.
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Algiers, April 23 (Reuters) - Algerias interim president has sacked Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour as CEO of state energy company Sonatrach, state TV reported on Tuesday.
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Ould Kaddour has said Algeria will get a new law with better terms in 2018, but no draft has emerged despite years of work.
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Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour's comments appear to be in response to an anonymous online call for oil firms to join a general strike on Tuesday.
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"With the month of Ramadan approaching, we hope the parties would take practical measures to ease the burden on citizens," Ould Cheikh Ahmed added.
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Algiers, April 23 (Reuters) - Algeria's interim president has sacked Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour as CEO of state energy company Sonatrach, state TV reported on Tuesday.
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The United Nations' special envoy on Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced the suspension on Saturday in Kuwait, where the talks were being held.
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A statement released on public television late on Saturday urged residents to provide information on the militant, whom authorities named as Cheikh Ould Saleck.
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Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said this week it was necessary to amend the energy law, following a suggestion by Sonatrach's CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour.
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"The unconditional release of children was agreed, and the mechanics of the release of detainees in the coming days was addressed," Ould Cheikh Ahmed wrote.
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"The growing number of veiled women reflects the investment of Islamists," Nadia Ould-Kaci, of Women of Aubervilliers against the Veil, told the Senate recently.
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"The human rights organizations operating in accordance with Mauritanian law exercise their activities freely," Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to all Yemeni parties to engage with Ould Cheikh Ahmed "so that talks can start without further delay".
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Senegal's President Macky Sall signed an inter-governmental cooperation accord on Friday with his counterpart in Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, during a state visit.
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"We are thrilled that the [Periodic Review Board] has cleared our client," Nancy Hollander, an attorney for Mohamedou Ould Slahi, said in a written statement.
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The detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 45, is a Mauritanian and the author of "Guantánamo Diary," which he wrote by hand at the prison in 2005.
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Although previous attempts at a cease-fire and peace talks have failed, the mediator, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said he was more optimistic this time.
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"Yemen today continues to traverse a critical and agonizing period as civilians pay a terrible price of an unending power struggle," Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
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These sit-down interviews were surely difficult to secure, but if Margolin and his co-director, Lemine Ould Salem, offered any pushback, it doesn't show.
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"The candidate (Mohamed Ould Ghazouani) ... is proclaimed president, having acquired an absolute majority in the first round," council member Haimoud Ba said at a press conference.
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The suspect, Fawaz Ould Ahmeida, is a member of the Islamic militant group Al Mourabitoun, according to Defense Ministry spokesman Diarran Kone, who confirmed the arrest.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's electoral commission proclaimed ruling party candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani winner on Sunday with 52% of votes in a presidential election the previous day.
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The UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, called on all parties to show restraint in a briefing to the Security Council.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - The leader of Algeria's ruling party, 84-year old Djamal Ould Abbes, resigned on Wednesday due to health concerns, state news agency APS said.
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However, Ould Cheikh Ahmed noted the Houthis and the allied General People's Congress, the party of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, would not meet with him.
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Efforts by the United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to bring about peace and resume the peaceful political evolution that started in 2011 remain stalled.
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Anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid came second with 18.58%, while Mohamed Ould Boubacar, who is backed by Mauritania's biggest Islamist party, was third with 17.85%.
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Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz led last ditch talks with Jammeh in Banjul on Wednesday before meeting Senegal's President Macky Sall and Barrow in Dakar overnight.
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"If a pastoralist does not move, he dies," said El Hacen Ould Taleb, head of Groupement National des Associations Pastorales (GNAP), a Mauritanian charity working with pastoralists.
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Abeid finished a distant second behind President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after most opposition parties boycotted the 2014 election over concerns about the fairness of the vote.
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Jammeh was accompanied onto the plane by Guinean President Alpha Conde, who mediated the terms of his exit with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and others.
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Guinea's President Alpha Conde and Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz arrived in the Gambian capital Banjul on Friday for last-ditch talks with Jammeh, witnesses said.
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They have charged Alhassane Ould Mohamed, a Malian national, in connection with the shooting of Bultemeier and Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Christopher McNeely, who survived the attack.
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Al Mourabitoun and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for all the attacks, but Mr. Sangho linked Mr. Ould Ahmed only to attacks inside Mali.
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Ould Cheikh Ahmed's convoy was attacked in May last year in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa while he was traveling from the airport to the U.N. compound.
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" Nancy Hollander, one of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's attorneys, said in a statement that Slahi "wants nothing more than to be with his family and rebuild his life.
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In a briefing on Sunday, U.N. envoy to Yemen Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the intractable two-year-old conflict was exposing ordinary people to death and hardship.
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The United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who also briefed the council, said he saw no sign the antagonists were willing to compromise.
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Saleh made his comments as U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheickh Ahmed held meetings in the capital Sanaa with Houthi rebels and negotiators representing forces loyal to him.
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"The period between November and March is going to be difficult," Ould Kaddour told his managers at a briefing open to the media, referring to gas exports.
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"We should beware of licensing monopolies," says Djamel Ould Abbas, the 83-year-old secretary-general of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has ruled Algeria since independence.
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"We are very optimistic and things are moving in the right direction so we will conclude with Exxon and have our trade JV," Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour told reporters.
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"I'm happy to say that we will have petrochemical products, not just oil and gas," Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour told reporters at a signing ceremony on Friday.
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The Yemeni official said the Omani side have informed Mekhlafi in talks on Monday that the Houthis were ready to agree to Ould Cheikh Ahmed's plan in full.
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"It's a very worrying trend," said Amnesty's Francois Patuel, who researched the repression of human rights groups since President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was re-elected in 2014.
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On July 25th only seven of its 22 heads of state bothered to attend their summit and one of them, Ould Abdul Aziz of Mauritania, was there anyway.
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My government appreciates the United Nations' work in assisting Yemen, and we will continue to support the efforts of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the United Nations special envoy.
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Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is on an official visit to the UAE, where he met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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Former prime minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, who is backed by Mauritania's biggest Islamist party, drew large crowds on the campaign trail and was considered Ghazouani's main rival.
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Freak incident Thunderstorm asthma occurs when a storm hits during a period of unusually high rye grass pollen, said Robin Ould, chief executive of the Asthma Foundation of Australia.
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But finding precious pasture is tricky when you "have no idea where to start" or when mayors do not allow you to pass through their villages, said Ould Taleb.
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Griffiths, a former British diplomat who replaced Mauritania's Ould Cheikh Ahmed as the U.N. Special Envoy last month, briefed the U.N. Security Council for the first time on Tuesday.
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But the bigger challenge for Ould Kaddour will be to shake up Sonatrach, no easy task in a country where senior figures wary of foreign influence can resist reforms.
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Fawaz Ould Ahmed was captured by security and intelligence services in Bamako on Thursday as he was preparing to carry out another attack, said security ministry spokesman Amadou Sangho.
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Before Ould Ahmed's capture, Malian officials had claimed to have arrested a number of suspected militants over the past month, who they say organized or carried out the assaults.
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Hours earlier government spokesman Sidi Mohamed Ould Maham had declared Ghazouani "president-elect" at a news conference, and opposition candidates represented by Abeid said they would contest the results.
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" Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the United Nations special envoy to Yemen, who has been shuttling between the combatants for months, said in a statement that the talks were "delayed.
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" Ould Cheikh Ahmed said Saudi Arabia is "fully committed to make sure that the next talks take place and particularly supports us with regard to the cessation of hostilities.
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Others however like Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, a former top United Nations official in West Africa and Somalia, recall with concern the American pullout following the "Black Hawk Down" incident.
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The United Nations' special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said all sides had told him that they would abide by the cease-fire, which can be renewed.
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"You all know that the cholera epidemic has increased, reaching more than 25,000 cases and there have been many deaths in less than two weeks," Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
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The envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, a veteran diplomat from Mauritania, is the second United Nations mediator in less than three years to vacate the Yemen post in frustration.
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United Nations Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Tuesday told the U.N. Security Council he would present a roadmap in the coming days to advance the stalled process.
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According to sources close to the envoy, most of the substantive discussions in recent weeks have not involved Ould Cheikh Ahmed, despite his claim to oversight of peace efforts.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - A Mauritanian court on Monday confirmed Mohamed Ould Ghazouani as the country's next president, dismissing an appeal by opposition candidates over alleged voting irregularities in last month's election.
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Saturday's candidates include former prime minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, ruling party candidate Mohamed Ahmed Oudl Ghazouani and anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid, Abdel Aziz's closest rival in 2014.
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Separately, two Mauritanian anti-slavery activists, Biram Dah Abeid and Brahim Ould Bilal, were released from prison this week after having been arrested for protesting the continued practice of slavery.
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Jammeh's decision to step down has prompted speculation over the terms agreed during two days of negotiations led by Guinea's President Alpha Conde and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania.
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The United Nations' special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said this week that the parties attending peace talks in Kuwait had agreed to unconditionally free all child prisoners.
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The envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, told a panel of the Middle East Institute in Washington that he was "extremely concerned" about the possibility of military action at Hodeidah soon.
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"This is why we say that the current government has regressed in terms of slavery in the seven months since (President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani) has been in power," he said.
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Abeid, Boubacar and fifth-placed candidate Mohamed Ould Maouloud said on Wednesday they had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council a day earlier, saying the results were not credible.
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U.N. Yemen mediator Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council a Saudi donation of $67 million had helped slow the cholera spread and called on other donors to step up.
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An advisor to the U.N. delegation in Kuwait said the Houthis had been "very positive" until two days ago and had agreed with envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on almost everything.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said if the ceasefire was accepted by Yemen's opposing sides, then Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, special envoy to the United Nations, would go through the details.
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Reporting by Lamine Chikhi and Hamid Ould Ahmed; Additional reporting by Aziz El Yaakoubi in Dubai; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky, Giles Elgood, James Dalgleish and Leslie Adler
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"The situation, if it remains as it is, will lead to more inflation in prices which will reflect on the humanitarian and social situation," Ould Cheikh Ahmed told a news conference.
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Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said in a tweet his government renewed its acceptance of the proposals first made by U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed in May.
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A West African regional force had been launched to remove him but paused to allow for negotiations mediated by Guinean President Alpha Conde and President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania.
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Reporting by Lamine Chikhi and Hamid Ould Ahmed; additional reporting by Ali Abdelaty in Cairo; Writing by Michael Georgy and Ulf Laessing; Editing by Edmund Blair, Daniel Wallis and Peter Cooney
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West African leaders Alpha Conde of Guinea and Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz travelled to the capital Banjul on Friday to allow Jammeh one last chance to cede power peacefully.
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Reporting by Lamine Chikhi, Hesham Hajali, Tom Miles, Stephanie Nebehay, Tarek Amara, Hamid Ould Ahmed, Zohra Bensemra and Ulf Laessing; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Catherine Evans and Daniel Wallis
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That is particularly true in the impoverished desert nation of Mauritania, according to El Hacen Ould Taleb, head of the Groupement National des Associations Pastorales (GNAP), a charity working with pastoralists.
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The North African country has been working on a new law but it is unclear when it will be ready as many players are involved, Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour told reporters.
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A United Nations official, Michele Zaccheo, said the negotiations, which were originally convened by the special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, were still expected to resume as scheduled on Jan.
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Ghazouani has campaigned on continuing economic and security progress made under outgoing president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who took the helm in a 2008 coup, then won elections in 2009 and 2014.
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The Malian man, Alhassane Ould Mohamed, pleaded guilty last month in Federal District Court in Brooklyn to murdering William Bultemeier, a Defense Department attaché assigned to the United States Embassy in Mali.
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"The government has in principle accepted Ould Cheikh Ahmed's proposals regarding Hodeidah out of a feeling of responsibility for all the people of Yemen, but the Houthis have rejected them," he said.
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"I call on all political leaders and their supporters to refrain from harming peace and security," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said after talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Paris.
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The envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has held extensive consultations with Yemen's internationally recognized government and Houthi Shiite rebels as well as countries in the region and the United States and France.
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Additional reporting by Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler in Vienna, Vladimir Soldatkin in Brussels and Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by David Goodman and Dmitry Zhdannikov
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"Now is the time to step back from the brink," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement following the start of the U.N.-backed cessation of hostilities at 2100 GMT on Sunday.
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The refinery acquisition and increased cooperation between the two companies were seen as key for Sonatrach's efforts to modernize its business and reduce reliance on fuel imports under Chief Executive Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour.
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"Transhumance allows pastoralists to hit three birds with one stone: find pastures and water, sell their animals at the market and buy produce they need like cereal crops and wood," Ould Taleb said.
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Ould Kaddour has made tough statements, warning that Sonatrach might fail to meet some client obligations and calling production delays unacceptable — unusual talk in a country where officials rarely express criticism in public.
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The refinery acquisition and increased cooperation between the two companies were seen as key for Sonatrach's efforts to modernise its business and reduce reliance on fuel imports under Chief Executive Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has said he will not seek a third term in office, amid opposition allegations that he planned to change the constitution to extend his rule.
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Before Mr. Ould Ahmed's capture, Malian officials had claimed to have arrested a number of people suspected of being militants over the past month, who they say organized or carried out the assaults.
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"We reiterate our position that the political solution is the only way out of a prolonged conflict in Yemen," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN special envoy for Yemen, said in a statement.
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"We're looking at their experience in shale and would like them to be involved with us," Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference in Washington.
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"The countries of the G5 have decided to enter a new phase ... with the creation of a common force to protect their borders," Ayrault said after meeting Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
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The U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said earlier this week that the parties attending peace talks in Kuwait had agreed to unconditionally free all child prisoners they are holding.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, United Nations special envoy for Yemen, announced the break from fighting between a pro-Yemeni coalition led by Saudi forces and Houthi rebels before it started just before midnight Wednesday.
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"Chevron is a big company and we are happy to have it here with us in Algeria as it will bring know-how and expertise," Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour said in his office in Algiers.
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"It is now the responsibility of the delegations to prioritize peace, rather than partisan agendas," said Ould Cheikh Ahmed, adding that he would return to begin consultations with both parties despite their "unofficial" rejections.
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Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour and his colleagues have been courting Sunni Muslim Sufi masters from communities in areas near prospective southern gas fields to win over locals worried about possible disruption from exploration work.
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The atmosphere in some heavily immigrant suburbs can curb freedom by making it hard not to wear the veil, argues Nadia Ould-Kaci, who co-runs a group called Women of Aubervilliers against the Veil.
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FLN chief Djmel Ould Abbes, who suggested Bouteflika could even be the party's candidate for a 5th term in 2019 despite his fragility, said the president was performing his duties normally after the Merkel cancellation.
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ONA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying that peace talks would resume at the end of November on the basis of a plan presented by the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
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Sahrawi foreign minister Salem Ould Salek described the AU's admission of Morocco as a 'major step' towards full international recognition since it would now be in the same room, on equal terms, with its rival.
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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's government-backed candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani won the presidential election on Sunday, cementing the power of a ruling party that has positioned itself as an ally of the West against Islamist militants.
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"The coalition ... reaffirms its readiness to facilitate the immediate installation of cranes at the port of Hodeidah, in line with the secretary-General's special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed latest proposals," the Saudi statement said.
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Iryani repeated that the government had accepted a proposal by U.N. envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, to hand over control of Hodeidah to a neutral party as a way of avoiding military action.
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Ahmar said U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed had asked for the truce to be extended for another 72 hours, and government sources told Reuters foreign diplomats were lobbying both sides to prolong the ceasefire.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants to quickly appoint a new special envoy for Yemen to replace Ould Cheikh Ahmed when his current contract finishes at the end of February, said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
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"In this moment, (Ould Cheikh Ahmed's) thoughts go first to the Yemeni people who are worn out by this conflict and are enduring one of the most devastating humanitarian crisis in the world," Dujarric said.
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Speaking by Skype at an event organized by Human Rights Watch (HRW) before Ould Cheikh Ahmed's press conference, HRW's Yemen researcher Belkis Wille said that bombings continued unabated in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa.
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Former general and defense minister Ghazouani campaigned on continuing economic and security progress made under outgoing president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who took power in a 2008 coup and won elections in 2009 and 2014.
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"Then we need to solve the other problems like access, in particular, to currency from the central bank," said Abdessalam Ould Ahmed, the FAO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Near East and North Africa.
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The talks are part of changes pursued by Sonatrach's new chief, Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, a U.S.-trained engineer who took office in March aiming to overhaul a sprawling group hit by inefficiency, delays and corruption scandals.
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Asseri and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir have in recent days said that any peace talks can only take place between Hadi and the Houthis, and through the U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
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Griffiths, currently executive director of the European Institute of Peace, will replace Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who the United Nations said would step down after three years in the job when his current contract finishes this month.
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Reporting by Lamine Chikhi, Hamid Ould Ahmed, Hesham Hajali, Ulf Laessing, Tarek Amara, Tom Miles, Raissa Kasolowsky, Geert De Clerq and Stephanie Nebehay; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Mark Heinrich, David Goodman and Peter Cooney
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And in "Prisoner 760," Holly Williams travels to Mauritania to interview the former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was released in October and has written a book about his experiences at the military prison.
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The latest peace plan submitted by U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed suggests Ahmar would step down and Hadi would agree to become little more than a figurehead after a Houthi withdrawal from the capital Sanaa.
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The last detainee he spoke to before he left was Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritian who has been held in Guantanamo Bay's isolation unit since 2003 and who released a book about his experiences last year.
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In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the truce, announced by U.N. Yemen special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, required all parties to halt military activities and help facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
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U.N. mediator Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed is seeking to persuade Yemen's Houthi rebels to send representatives to peace talks in Kuwait as a shaky truce declared on April 10 teetered near collapse, delegates said earlier on Tuesday.
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Ould Cheikh Ahmed's plan provides for the Houthis to withdraw from some cities captured since 2014 and for a new government comprising all parties, including the Houthis, be established to run the country and prepare for elections.
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Minister of Defence Tieman Hubert Coulibaly, Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of National Reconciliation Zahabi Ould Sidi Mohamed and Minister of Security Salif Traore all returned to the positions they had held in the previous government.
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Alhassane Ould Mohamed, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Kuntz in Brooklyn, New York, for participating in a conspiracy to murder William Bultemeier, a defense attache system operations coordinator working at the U.S. embassy in Niger.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the United Nations Yemen envoy, said the move gravely violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 2216, which calls on the Houthis "to refrain from further unilateral actions that could undermine the political transition in Yemen".
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika put U.S.-trained Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour in charge of overhauling Sonatrach in March, 210, after years of short-lived CEOs, fraud scandals and red tape had put foreign investors off the North African OPEC producer.
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Ould Kadour, an engineer who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and headed U.S.-Algerian firm Brown & Root Condor in the 1990s, was appointed at the end of March in a surprise decision to replace Amine Mazouzi.
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of a New York Times best-selling memoir about his detention and torture at the Guantanamo Bay facility, was recently repatriated to his native Mauritania in West Africa, the Defense Department announced Monday.
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"When you have a perfect storm coming together (of) a very high pollen day, high humidity, and a thunderstorm, the grains of rye grass absorb water with the humidity and they break up into thousands of pieces," Ould said.
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"We have had three meetings with Exxon Mobil and we are expecting to conclude with (Exxon) soon," Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour told reporters on the sidelines of an oil and gas conference in the Algerian city of Oran.
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"We have to vote massively to reinforce political and security stability in the country and offer support for President Bouteflika," said Djamel Ould Abbas, head of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the president's party, at a rally this month.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's interim president has sacked Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour as the chief executive of state energy company Sonatrach, state TV said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty for investors who had started to return to the oil and gas producer.
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi is another example; the man regarded as the most tortured prisoner at Guantánamo Bay was arrested after 9/11, held for 14 years, and eventually released with no evidence to him being linked to the plot.
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The suspect, Fawaz Ould Ahmed, was captured by members of the security and intelligence services in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on Thursday as he was preparing to carry out an attack, said a Security Ministry spokesman, Amadou Sangho.
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So what kept this album in the play pile for me was less the singing than the band, which with Seymali playing a traditional females-only harp is anchored by another hereditary griot, her guitarist husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly.
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"I am happy to say that 14 firms are on the list to do a JV on trading with us," Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour told reporters during a visit to the port city of Bejaia, without giving details or names.
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"The first issue that I came for is to try to avoid in every possible way, the idea of a military operation on Houdeidah," the U.N. envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, told reporters after his arrival at Sanaa airport.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said if Yemen's opposing sides accepted the ceasefire then the special envoy to the U.N., Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz flew straight to Senegal to meet President Macky Sall after last ditch talks in Gambia aiming to resolve a crisis over its election, a Senegalese presidential source told Reuters on Thursday.
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Western Sahara's Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek called progress on Morocco's readmission a "positive step" since it would put it on equal footing with a region it has until now refused to acknowledge as anything other than its own territory.
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The Constitutional Council ruled that the former general and defense minister, who has promised to maintain outgoing President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's focus on the economy and security, won 52% of the vote, as preliminary results had indicated in June.
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President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz will step down after serving two five-year terms since he took power in a coup in 2008, resisting a trend in which post-colonial African leaders have sought to extend their rule beyond constitutional limits.
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U.N. special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was in Sanaa for three days of talks aimed at preventing military action at the strategic port of Hodeidah, the entry point for 70 percent of Yemen's food supplies as well as humanitarian aid.
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U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed "welcomes the restoration of the cessation of hostilities, which will spare the Yemeni people further bloodshed and will allow for the expanded delivery of humanitarian assistance," the U.N. statement said late Monday.
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The unilateral declaration contradicted recent comments by the Houthis to the U.N. and to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and only complicated the search for a peace deal, which needed to be based on U.N. talks, Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
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The Houthis have observed a period of calm along the border with Saudi Arabia and exchanged prisoners with Riyadh, paving the way for Ould Cheikh Ahmed to draft a broad outline for the talks, which were due to start on Monday.
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During the peace talks held in Kuwait, lasting about 115 days, the solution was within reach and U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed managed skillfully to come up with a plan that addressed the issues and concerns of all parties.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 and peace talks in Kuwait beginning a week later, United Nations special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Wednesday.
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Ould Cheikh Ahmed said restrictions on financial transfers were hurting the poor and "as a quick fix" urged the resumption of payments by the country's Social Welfare Fund, which supports some 2 million people with payments of 3,800 rials per month.
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U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on May 30 that he had proposed a deal to avoid military clashes in Hodeidah to be negotiated in parallel with an agreement to resume civil service salary payments nationally.
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U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the cessation of hostilities would begin at 2359 local time (2059 GMT) on Wednesday and could be renewed after the initial three-day period, the United Nations said in statement.
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U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on Tuesday he had made clear to the parties to the conflict that they must reach a compromise to avoid the "horrific scenario" of military action moving to the port.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The parties to over a year of civil war in Yemen have agreed to release all child prisoners they are holding, U.N. envoy to peace talks in Kuwait Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on his official Twitter account on Monday.
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Ould Kaddour was speaking on a visit to the southern gas complex of Tiguentourine, operated by Sonatrach, BP and Statoil, where he said gas output was stable at 8.8 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year, just below maximum capacity of around 9 bcm.
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An article on Wednesday about the sentencing of Alhassane Ould Mohamed, who pleaded guilty last month to murdering William Bultemeier, a Defense Department attaché assigned to the United States Embassy in Niger in 2000, referred incorrectly to Danni Bultemeier, who addressed the court.
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BANJUL (Reuters) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz arrived in Gambia on Wednesday to talk to President Yahya Jammeh, Gambian state TV said, in what might be the latest mediation effort to persuade Jammeh to step down to defuse a political crisis.
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Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour and Dhia Kamar Safar, chief of technical department at the Iraqi oil ministry, also discussed the possibility of Algeria taking part in projects aimed at connecting Iraqi cities to the country's gas network, Sonatrach said in a statement.
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NEW YORK An article on Wednesday about the sentencing of Alhassane Ould Mohamed, who pleaded guilty last month to murdering William Bultemeier, a Defense Department attaché assigned to the United States Embassy in Niger in 2800, referred incorrectly to Danni Bultemeier, who addressed the court.
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The message from new CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kadour was sent to Sonatrach employees just over a month after he took the job as the oil giant's sixth chief executive in seven years, a period marked by instability and a collapse in global crude prices.
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In the eighties, he and a younger cousin, a slender poet named Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, spent their evenings at a local café, where the owner showed videos of the Palestinian struggle and the jihad in Afghanistan, which the Soviet Union had invaded in 113.
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Although Chen denies that his brief intensive with Mauritanian master guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly is decisive, the thing definitely sounds somehow African even if the echoes seemed less distinct when I cued up the untethered vocals and suppler grooves of Group Inerane and Group Doueh.
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The plans, presented by U.N. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed during a regional tour last week, included confidence building measures such as turning over the Red Sea port of Hodeidah to a neutral party, opening Sanaa airport for civilian traffic and paying civil servants' salaries.
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"We need to simplify the way we work, review our procedures, make a qualitative leap and focus our efforts on the core business of our company namely production, the development of our activities," Ould Kadour said in the message, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
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The government of Mauritania, a vast nation on the West African coast with an increasing jihadist presence, is on the hunt for an Islamist militant who escaped from prison, where he was awaiting execution for his part in a plot to assassinate President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was released to his native Mauritania in October after 14 years at Guantánamo, told a doctor on his legal team that military mental health providers did not ask him about possible mistreatment, according to a sealed court report obtained by The Times.
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According to the U.N. statement, Ould Cheikh Ahmed also discussed ways to ensure the resumption of salaries to Yemeni civil servants who complain that salaries have not been paid on time since Hadi ordered the central bank moved from Sanaa last year to the southern port city of Aden.
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Indeed, after Mrs Johnson Sirleaf made her impatience clear at Mr Jammeh's habit of ringing her up live on Gambian television to explain his latest negotiation positions, it was left to two new faces, Guinea's Alpha Conde and Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, to make the final push.
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U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh visited Sanaa and presented the Houthis and their allies, the party of Saleh, with a road map addressing "security and political arrangements", the United Nations said on Tuesday, calling on both sides to extend the ceasefire and allow humanitarian aid into the country.
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WASHINGTON — Two longtime detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, made rare public appearances in separate military hearings on Thursday, including Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose memoir recounting abuse by American interrogators became a best-seller last year after he waged a yearslong battle with the government for permission to publish it.
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U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that he would resume consultations with the parties to the conflict to try to take advantage of a new thrust for peace agreed by United States, Gulf Arab states and the United Nations earlier this month.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed did not give any details of who would sit on such a body or what it would do but said a further fall in the rial currency in the past two weeks had added to strains on Yemenis ahead of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan.
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"We wanted to show what it was like to live under the Shariah when we started the project, but then Daesh emerged and we had to put it in the synopsis," said François Margolin, who directed the French film with Lemine Ould M. Salem, a journalist from Mauritania, using another term for the Islamic State.
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"The announcement by (the Houthi) Ansar Allah and the General People's Congress on the formation of a new government in Sana'a represents a new and concerning obstacle to the peace process and does not serve the interests of the people of Yemen in these difficult times," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement.
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Sevinc Osmanqizi has been subject to harassment and attempted extortion by the pro-government Azerbaijani news channel Real TV in retaliation for her political reporting, forcing her to live in exile in the U.S. Abderrahmane Weddady and Cheikh Ould Jiddou have been behind bars since March after being accused of spreading false news due to their reporting on corruption in Mauritania.
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Speaking to reporters in New York, the UN's Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said that Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, as well as representatives of the Houthi rebels and the party of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had agreed to a nationwide ceasefire starting at midnight on April 10, to be followed on April 18 by talks in Kuwait.
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Much has already been written about the influence of both Hendrix and Mark Knopfler on the guitar technique of many West African players (basically, in the 80s, cheap Dire Straits and Jimi tapes spread through the region, influencing pop and desert blues alike) but on Arbina, Seymali's husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, and his modified for Moorish scales guitar takes his influences, both contemporary and griot, further afield than ever before.
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The author of a best-selling memoir about his detention and torture at Guantanamo has been released The author of a best-selling memoir about his detention and torture at Guantanamo has been released Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of a New York Times best-selling memoir about his detention and torture at the Guantanamo Bay facility, was recently repatriated to his native Mauritania in West Africa, the Defense Department announced Monday.
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Here is the current list, which is not ranked in any specific order: -- Maria Ressa, founder of Rappler, The Philippines -- The late Jamal Khashoggi, Washington Post columnist, Saudi Arabia -- Eman Al Nafjan, prominent women's rights blogger, Saudi Arabia -- Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters, Myanmar -- Claudia Duque, a veteran investigative reporter, Colombia -- Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, prominent blogger, Mauritania -- Anna Nimiriano, editor of Juba Monitor, South Sudan -- Pelin Unker, Cumhuriyet, Turkey -- Thomas Awah Junior, correspondent for Afrik 2 Radio and publisher of Aghem Messenger, Cameroon -- Tran Thi Nga, prominent human rights blogger, Vietnam CPJ and IWMF will help identify which journalists belong on the list.
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