The word 'mauritania' is correct and usable in written English.
It is the name of a country located in Northwest Africa. Example: I am planning a trip to Mauritania next summer to explore the beautiful Sahara Desert.
In November 2001, Slahi was arrested in Mauritania and taken to Amman by Jordanian armed forces.
It pictures Mauritania as a kind of limbo, where everyone is waiting, watching, dreaming of going to France or elsewhere.
In neighbouring Mauritania, those old enough to cover their hair are often forced to leave their arms bare – against rural tradition – to enable them to carry heavy burdens.
Mauritania was the world's last country to abolish slavery, in 1981, but campaigners say it is difficult to overturn a deeply engrained custom among rural communities across the several Saharan nations.
He had been unable to travel abroad freely since then – until fleeing to Nouakchott in Mauritania via Morocco.
Despite continuing efforts to criminalise this practice, those who perpetrate this crime in countries such as Niger and Mauritania routinely go unpunished.
No sooner had the leaders of Mali, Mauritania and Congo-Brazzaville landed in Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital, than they were set upon by a Libyan mob, demanding their departure.
But John Negroponte, its deputy secretary of state, was on hand last month to praise both the colonel and the new president, promising to renew aid and to bump up military co-operation, not least because Mauritania like Mali is an ally in America's war on terror in Africa.Mauritania's new president promises to tackle poverty and injustice.
This month he will be visiting Mauritania and Morocco; future trips to the United States, Europe and Asia are likely.
Last year Hugues Lagrange, a sociologist, reported that black youths with origins in Africa's Sahel (eg from Mali and Mauritania) were more likely to be involved in crime than those from other parts of Africa, including the Maghreb.
But such defiance comes at a time when prospects for the Sahrawi independence movement look as bleak as the barren land that it controls and from which its leader, Muhammad Abdelaziz, was speaking.Before Spain pulled its troops out of its colony of Western Sahara in 1976, it ceded the territory to Morocco and Mauritania.
