Yet information that is blacked out on one page is often freely available a few pages later; at other times it is trivially easy to deduce what the missing words must be from the surrounding context.Fourteen years after his trip to the Mauritanian police station, Mr Slahi remains in Guantánamo Bay.
It also sits athwart the road from the Mauritanian border to one of Mali's few big bridges across the river Niger, and on a back route north to the historic city of Timbuktu, which makes it something of a strategic crossroads.
Most traffic plies between the Mauritanian river ports of Rosso, Bogué, and Kaédi.
Slavery (and its definition) remains a very sensitive issue for the Mauritanian government, which has long disputed its continued existence in spite of reports to the contrary by international groups.
As a result of the arid phases it underwent during the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago to the present), the Mauritanian landscape in general presents three different aspects; these are represented by skeletal soils, regs (desert surfaces consisting of small, rounded, tightly packed pebbles), and dunes.
Witnesses report rebels advancing from Mauritanian border where they had retreated under French air attack.
Building explodes during football game in Romania Unsurprisingly, the decision has reportedly caused outrage among Mauritanian fans with the president's office forced to officially deny such an action ever took place.
The new UN envoy to the country, Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived in Sana'a, calling for a dialogue between the various factions.
The year saw the death of British folk guitarist Bert Jansch, acclaimed for his solo playing and work with Pentangle, Other deaths included Mauritanian singer Dimi Mint Abba and the Tanzanian singer and guitarist Remmy Ongala.
Adult women are considered minors by Mauritanian custom, and female slaves face greater difficulty escaping.
Because the Mauritanian government refuses to allow IRA to register as a nongovernmental organization, it is impossible to solicit funding through grants.
