of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants
<adj.pert> Mauritanian tropical fish
Of penalties totalling UM450m imposed over the last four years UM156m remains unpaid. Foreign governments and multilateral agencies have been insisting on wide-ranging reforms of the Mauritanian fishing industry in exchange for major investment.
The human rights leader said he was satisfied with the current situation of the detainees, but he urged Mauritanian authorities to impose heavy punishment on those who ill-treated prisoners.
In Dakar, many women and children sought refuge in the Mauritanian Embassy, Ambassador Mokhtar Ould Zamel said.
Mauritanian troops are gathering on the border with Senegal, and the African neighbors may go to war, Mauritania's interior minister said Wednesday.
"It is to be feared that not a single black Mauritanian will be unaffected by the measures," Senegal's acting foreign minister said in letter to the U.N. security council.
Mauritanian officials said 50,000 Mauritanians were repatriated, 30,000 by air and 20,000 across the Senegal River border.
An estimated 20,000 Mauritanians were being held under army protection at a fairground outside Dakar, awaiting a flight home. About 6,000-7,000 Senegalese were harbored by the Mauritanian Red Crescent at a Nouakchott mosque and an exhibition hall.
The sporadic violence against expatriate Senegalese and Mauritanian communities in both countries began last month in a dispute over border land between the two west African nations.
The former president of this west African country and five members of his government who were jailed four years ago were released Monday, Mauritanian radio reported.
The Senegalese said the two died from the bullets of Mauritanian border guards.
The sources said they only knew about casualties taken to the main public hospital of Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital.
"And if it hadn't been for the French," an official in Nouakchott said, "the Moroccans would have controlled the whole territory." Mauritanian officials say the river is the border.
"He always repeated: `I can kill you and say you died of diarrhea,"' Ly told reporters allowed to visit the prison at the weekend with Abdelhamid Ould Ghaly, president of the Mauritanian League of Human Rights.
Some say Mauritanian border guards did the shooting, others say Mauritanian tribesmen.
Some say Mauritanian border guards did the shooting, others say Mauritanian tribesmen.
Mauritanian authorities killed the two Senegalese peasants April 9 in the border village of Diawara, Senegal.
France, the former colonial ruler of Senegal, announced Saturday in Paris that it was furnishing five planes to airlift the Mauritanians to their home and return to Dakar Senegalese hiding out in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.