Developing the candle is not to generate electricity. This is as plain as a pikestaff. The archaic approach and actions do not allow any evolution equal to the expectations. The world is changing. The new Mauritania has to move with times, these times. One may start with deafening throbbing and pretend full speed, but the mechanics of States is different from any other mechanics.

The Mauritanian government has set up 35 check-points along its borders,official sources told PANA here on Thursday. The check-points are located in all the country's four borders with neighbouring Morocco (former territory of Western Sahara), Algeria, Mali and Senegal.

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the harsh, two-year jail sentence which a court passed yesterday on Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the websiteTaqadoumy, at the end of an incomprehensible and arbitrary trial. Dehah, who was not freed in December on completing a six-month sentence of a charge of violating public decency, was convicted this time on charges of violating public decency, inciting revolt and “criminal publication.”

A young Internet journalist is jailed in Mauritania for reporting the truth.
 

Hanevy Ould Dahah, who is now being held in Mauritania's Dar Naim prison, is an unlikely dissident. Half-Arab and half-African, he was marked as a child to become a cleric, memorizing the Quran by age nine and studying at ultra-conservative academies. Some of his former classmates now lead Mauritania's Salafist movement; Hanevy might have been one of them. 

The Mauritanian government has scheduled a meeti ng with its partner States for the first quarter of 2010 in Brussels, the Belgia n capital, official sources told PANA on Tuesday.

Mauritania’s new president, Gen Aziz, has recently gone on political scuffle with Egypt as he ordered his communication minister to boycott a media meeting in Caro.

A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.

Mauritania is a tiny nation on the margins of the modern world. It’s been through several coups. Most of them not bloody. But there’s a really new trend that started to emerge since last year, one of peaceful dialogue.